Metro Washington Council president Jos Williams joined more than 60 people from Latin America last week in Brazil to affirm labor’s continued commitment to racial equality through a broad-based economic justice movement. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the Inter-American Union Institute for Racial Equality, a labor coalition dedicated to fighting for racial justice in the Americas. The group has worked with trade union partners and likeminded allies across the Americas to combat racial and ethnic discrimination in the workplace and give union leaders tools to promote equality in their organizations and society since its founding in 1995 by the AFL-CIO, three Brazilian national union centers and the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas.
Today’s Cool Labor Site is politicalmoneyline.com. Political MoneyLine is the leading source of comprehensive, timely and objective campaign finance and lobbying information. Political MoneyLine helps you analyze the flow of money through the political system by providing campaign donation and expenditure data from the 1979-80 election cycle through the most recent filings. If you want to know who gave what to which Federal candidates, politicalmoneyline.com is the place to go. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1819, Allan Pinkerton was born; Pinkerton’s strike-breaking detectives, also known as "Pinks" gave us the word "fink". And in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded at a meeting in New York City. A. Philip Randolph became the union's first organizer. Today’s labor quote is by A. Philip Randolph: “The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”
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