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WBEZ
April 22, 2018
The resulting trial led to eight labor organizers being sentenced to death in a trial that was criticized for being fueled by dubious evidence and xenophobia. ... The battle, which left more than 65 dead, was part of an ongoing war between Native American tribes, their British allies and the U.S. government forÃâà...
WAMU 88.5
April 22, 2018
Now, labor organizers are setting their signs bringing those workers into the labor movement at a time when the percentage of U.S. workers who belong to a union is falling steadily. ... Aisha Chughtai a field organizer for Murphy, says the job is demanding and doesn't lend itself to a nine-to-five shift.
WatertownDailyTimes.com
April 19, 2018
“There is definitely a labor shortage right now, no doubt about that,” said Travis Flint, Watertown organizer for Electrical Workers IBEW Local 910. “We take in apprentices ... “Anyone who wants to work with their hands and is willing to learn, can do well with us,” Mr. Flint said. Kraft Heinz in Lowville also hadÃâà...
Patch.com
April 19, 2018
... a volunteer organizer with ORS. "We're happy to see that Redgate will use union labor on one part of the project. But that falls far short of the required construction labor needed. Let us be very clear: all workers at Clarendon Hill and elsewhere in Somerville should receive the prevailing wage as well.".
Jacobin magazine
April 16, 2018
The first novel, My Brilliant Friend, introduces us to the main protagonists, lifelong friends Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco (who narrates), and the impoverished neighborhood in Naples that shapes their lives. But the series also takes on larger topics, from economic theory, history, philosophy, and art to laborÃâà...
New York Times
April 15, 2018
Not long ago I received a MacArthur Fellowship, which is sometimes called the “genius grant,” much to the MacArthur Foundation's disagreement and my own. But receiving the grant did make me think about what genius means and why we are attached to an individualistic notion of it, even if we areÃâà...
New York Times
April 14, 2018
“We who are in here do believe that we shall overcome and the truth will make us free,” he wrote, as quoted in “Toward the Meeting of the Waters” (2008), ... He later worked as a teacher, labor organizer, manager of antipoverty programs and community activist in Washington, Boston and San Francisco.
Philly.com
April 14, 2018
Pennsylvania's role in the labor history of the United States dates back to the nation's earliest years. In 1786, print-makers in Philadelphia staged the first-ever U.S. strike and triumphantly secured $6 weekly minimum pay. Though this early experiment in labor activism succeeded, workers struggled againstÃâà...
Bridge Michigan
April 13, 2018
When she saw a need for fairer working conditions eight years ago, Wilson became a labor organizer with UNITE HERE Local 24, a hospitality workers ... Former U.S. Attorney Pat Miles and Dana Nessel, an attorney who won the landmark case overturning Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage, have splitÃâà...
Daily Mississippian
April 5, 2018
Fifty years ago, in what would be his final speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. looked down from the “mountaintop” to tell a mass meeting in Memphis a simple message: Labor rights are civil rights. The great organizer and orator understood that these two issues were inseparably linked. The March onÃâà...
CityLab
March 26, 2018
But taking a day off isn't really an option—around her, a Kentucky-wide labor movement is accelerating. Brewer is a labor organizer and a school district employee in Lexington, Kentucky, and for the past 2 weeks she's been working with her fellow public workers in almost all of the 120 counties in KentuckyÃâà...
9news.com.au
March 22, 2018
As Daniel Andrews continues to dismiss criticism of his Victorian Labor government over an election campaign rort, plans are being made to dig deeper ... day of questions over the damning report, a man passing by his press conference yelled from his car "dodgy c***" and "give us back our f***ing money".
AlterNet
March 22, 2018
Taking the podium in her freshly pressed, light-blue work uniform, Doris Conley looked out onto the faces of the Memphis City Council. For 17 years she has worked as a custodian at the Child Research Center at the University of Memphis. Her days start early, at 5:30 a.m., and she will have cleaned andÃâà...
The Australian
March 22, 2018
But the press conference was almost derailed by passers-by yelling abuse, including “dodgy c***” and “pay us back our f***ing money”, as they passed the Premier at a busy intersection near Melbourne's Chandler Highway. Unruffled by the slurs, Mr Andrews insisted he had done nothing wrong. “No suchÃâà...
lareviewofbooks
March 21, 2018
THE BOMB THAT TORE through Chicago's Haymarket Square rally in 1886 left an indelible mark on the history of US left politics. The police raid on the meeting that demanded an eight-hour day, the explosion that killed seven police officers and up to eight civilians, the convictions of the anarchistÃâà...
Little Village
March 21, 2018
It's a story Janda started researching after retiring from Northwestern University, where he was a professor of political science. Mozolak immigrated to the United States as young man, where he started a family and became a labor organizer working among his fellow Slovak immigrants. He had returned toÃâà...
InsideSources
March 14, 2018
“Wilna has spent 18 years building a life in this country, working at Disney and then dedicating her life to worker justice as an organizer,” Unite Here said. ... It also asserts that terminations violate the Administrative Procedure Act and the due process rights of United States citizen children of TPS holders.
AlterNet
March 14, 2018
"I am largely disappointed and feel it was a mistake for us to go back today without a resolution for PEIA," she told AlterNet on her first day back. ... executive director of the West Virginia Working Families Party and a former labor organizer with the West Virginia branch of the American Federation ofÃâà...
Longview News-Journal
March 14, 2018
SAN DIEGO (AP) — About 100 demonstrators protested President Donald Trump's proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall Tuesday, shouting and holding signs at ... Jeff Schwilk, founder of San Diegans for Secure Borders and organizer of a pro-Trump rally, the city resolution does not reflect the views of manyÃâà...
MissionNewswire
March 14, 2018
The article noted that Don Bosco Workers is under the leadership of Gonzalo Cruz (a Mexican immigrant and professional community organizer) and a worker-majority board of directors. The organization partners with five other worker centers serving the Westchester area. “We meet and talk about theÃâà...
kiiitv.com
March 14, 2018
Protest organizer Carlos Marroquin of Los Angeles said Trump's positions have done nothing to help the nation. "He picks things that divide people," Marroquin said. The U.S. is "hated around the world" because of Trump. Marroquin brought up housing, a particularly pressing issue for California. Instead ofÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
March 14, 2018
Active in the civil rights movement from his teens, Boyte worked as a community and labor organizer before founding the Center for Democracy ... into a playground, among other successes, was among the reasons that Public Achievement has spread -- not just in the United States, but to 33 countries.
Jacobin magazine
March 4, 2018
The ongoing strike is neither the first time the state has been a site of mass labor militancy, nor the first time a labor battle has spilled from the state's borders and spread across the country. West Virginia's history is littered with pitched labor battles, from unionization efforts put down by violence to agitationÃâà...
The Nation.
March 2, 2018
Jane McAlevey is an organizer and author of two books—her first, Raising Expectations and Raising Hell, was named the most valuable book of the year ... what the Supreme Court in Abood called “a compelling interest” in creating “labor peace”—by giving public-sector unions collective-bargaining rights.
Boston Irish Reporter
March 1, 2018
This train of thought led Aversa to look at coal mining labor history, and eventually to the tale of Jones (1837-1930), a native of Cork who along with her family fled the Great Famine to Canada, and later the US. An organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers, she was once called “theÃâà...
Biography
February 27, 2018
Today we celebrate Northern California activist and labor organizer Frances Albrier with a look at powerful images that encompass her life's work. ... Albrier's life teaches us about migration, labor and political activism on the West Coast, a region that is often associated with radicalism during the mid-lateÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
Campaigns Workers Could Increase Membership In Labor Unions ... The percentage of U.S. workers in a union has fallen steadily over the last few decades. So labor leaders are ... BRIAN BAKST, BYLINE: Aisha Chughtai is a field organizer for Erin Murphy, a Democratic candidate for Minnesota governor.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 31, 1999
“(Labor unions) weren't important before we met Cesar,” she says of Cesar Chavez, the noted labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the ... us to avoid the mistakes of previous unions that organized people to empower themselves in order to change everything from the cradle to the grave.
The Daily Collegian Online
December 31, 1999
“We are here to say thank you and good luck to the men and women who worked hard to get us to this point,” McCracken told her audience. ... Once they reached the Henderson Building, assistant education professor Rebecca Tarlau spoke about her experiences as a labor organizer and member of aÃâà...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 31, 1999
The post then cited U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy as determining that "if the student has stopped taking courses or stopped performing research and that is what is required for their program, the student's record should be terminated immediately and they will have to leave the U.S. asÃâà...
