News: Calling it “a major step forward to make sure workers’ rights to organize are protected in the 21st century workplace,” the Newspaper Guild-CWA last week hailed a National Labor Relations Board decision that makes clear the right of workers to use their work email accounts during non-work hours to discuss workplace issues. Cet Parks, Executive Director of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, said that “We think the decision is great for the future of union organizing campaigns and plan to take advantage of the new ruling.”
Here’s today’s labor history: on this date in 1918, 1,000 members of the Australian Workers’ Union, protesting unemployment, lack of political representation, and taxation without representation, marched on the Government House in Darwin, Australia, demanding the resignation of John Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory. Gilruth left under military protection, never to return, and Harold Nelson, who led the protest, went on to win the first Territory seat in Australia’s House of Representatives.
Today’s labor quote is by artist Ralph Ransom:
"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy."
Here’s today’s labor history: on this date in 1918, 1,000 members of the Australian Workers’ Union, protesting unemployment, lack of political representation, and taxation without representation, marched on the Government House in Darwin, Australia, demanding the resignation of John Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory. Gilruth left under military protection, never to return, and Harold Nelson, who led the protest, went on to win the first Territory seat in Australia’s House of Representatives.
Today’s labor quote is by artist Ralph Ransom:
"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy."
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