News: Over 600 members of the American Federation of Government Employees, or AFGE, will rally on Capitol Hill at noon today to call for "a Government that Works for America." "We devote our lives and careers towards making our country better," says AFGE. "We keep our friends and neighbors safe when they travel. We treat them when they are ill. We keep their communities safe. We defend them at home and abroad. We ensure that they have the benefits they need to support their families. AFGE members work for our country every day. We do all of this because we believe in a government that works for all of us – and together, we can make that government even stronger. Isn’t it time we had a government that works for all of us?" The noontime rally will be in Upper Senate Park; click here for details.
Today's labor calendar also includes Second Tuesdays at PERB, starting at 10 am, and an Informal Conversation with the Greek General Confederation of Labour starting at 12:45pm. Click here for details. Here's today's labor history: On this date in 1908 the American Federation of Labor founded the Building and Construction Trades Department as a way to overcome the jurisdictional conflicts occurring in the building and construction unions. In 1963, eleven members of the Carpenters’ union in Reesor Siding, Northern Ontario were shot, three fatally, by independent local farmer-settlers who were supplying wood to a Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company plant. Some 400 union members were attempting to block an outbound shipment from the plant. The action came as the company was insisting on a pay freeze and two months of seven-day-a-week work. And on this date in 1973, forty workers were killed on Staten Island, New York, when a huge storage tank filled with liquefied gas exploded. Today's labor quote is by Martin Luther King, Jr.: "We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools."
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