“Dancers aren’t treated like princesses. They’re treated like kitchen help.” She also said that forming a union “was not about getting more money. It was about rights and protection and job security.” Scott was a dancer at the Lusty Lady (see History, below) Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Sixty letter carriers from 18 states meet in a room above Schaefer's Saloon on Plankinton Avenue in Milwaukee. They unanimously adopt a resolution to form a National Association of Letter Carriers - 1889 Seventy-five workers die when the lower St. Lawrence River’s Quebec Bridge collapses while under construction. A flawed design was found to be the cause. Thirteen more workers were killed nine years later when the reconstructed bridge’s central span was being raised and fell into the river because of a problem with hoisting devices - 1907 Dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Club vote 57-15 to be represented by SEIU Local 790. Their first union contract, ratified eight months later, guaranteed work shifts, protection against arbitrary discipline and termination, automatic hourly wage increases, sick days, a grievance procedure, and removal of one-way mirrors from peep show booths - 1996 Northwest Airlines pilots, after years of concessions to help the airline, begin what is to become a 2-week strike for higher pay - 1998 Delegates to the Minnesota AFL-CIO convention approve the launching of workdayminnesota.org, now in its fourteenth year. It was the first web-based daily labor news service by a state labor federation - 2000 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services As students grab their backpacks and head back to school, the Community Services Agency is inviting local union members to grab their golf bags and enjoy the last of the warm weather at its 23rd Annual Golf Tournament, scheduled for September 24 at the Enterprise Golf Course. "Come to compete, come to win prizes, come to show solidarity with your fellow union members," says CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. Proceeds from the tournament will benefit CSA's Emergency Assistance Fund, which provided local union families facing hardship with over $1,000 in the last week alone. The last day to submit journal ads is Friday, September 14; click here for more information. photo: ATU 689's Team 2 at the 2017 tournament; photo by Chris Garlock "America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice." from his August 28, 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech |