![]() ![]() Other events include free admission at the National Constitution Center and the Museum of the American Revolution for retired, active, and Blue Star families. If you’re more into a socially driven holiday, WDAS hosts an all-white Indoor/Outdoor Dance Party with Patty Jackson and Mimi Brown. Donald Norcross is the keynote speaker for a similar event on the Battleship New Jersey. For those on the other side of the river, Rep. On Monday, the Independence Seaport Museum hosts a memorial to fallen soldiers on the cruiser Olympia. On Sunday, it hosts a ceremony adding markers to previously unmarked graves. Interesting Philly fact: Laurel Hill East cemetery was where the first Memorial Day tribute was held in 1868. It began as a way to honor Civil War dead but was added to our yearly holiday schedule in 1971 to honor the sacrifices of those who died in all American wars. Memorial Day weekend provides an extra day to decompress from our stressful, overscheduled lives. How much: Most free, pay as you go, but some ticketed.CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Memorial Day Roundup File photo: Tom Bell, Lincoln Post Service Officer, salutes as the flag goes by in the All Wars Memorial & Lincoln American Legion Memorial Day Parade in Philadelphia on Sunday, May 28, 2006. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “We have to start yelling even louder.”Ībout 40 performers, including knights, squires, trumpeters and a falconer, succeeded in a union vote at the Lyndhurst, New Jersey, location last July.ĬNN’s Natasha Chen contributed to this story. “They had our account banned, and we have to take this,” Zapcic said. ![]() The union has been in wage negotiations with management since December. A screenshot shared with CNN showed CEO Perico Montaner reported the union’s Facebook account for trademark infringement. Zapcic believes the company had reported the account to be banned for violating TikTok’s intellectual property policy. The union’s last post on TikTok was advocating for fair wages. Much of the union’s support came from social media, especially on TikTok. “It is a grotesque attempt to retaliate against workers for exercising their legally protected right to form a union and bargain collectively,” Medieval Times Performers United and the American Guild of Variety Artists said in a statement in October. In October, Medieval Times filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the union for using the company name, which is still ongoing. The union has filed numerous unfair labor practice charges against the company both in California and New Jersey, including one on their TikTok account getting banned. The closest location to California is in Scottsdale, Arizona. Zapcic said the company is pulling performers from other departments and non-unionized locations. The strike is affecting performances at the location. “They love to tell us that we’re not Broadway and it’s absolutely correct,” Zapcic said. But since reopening after COVID, staffing levels were so short, workers were performing six days a week. Zapcic said people work at Medieval Times because they love it, not for the money. Medieval Times workers walk a picket line in Buena Park, California. ![]()
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