Agreeing with incumbent President J. David Cox that “challenges have never been higher” for federal workers,
delegates to the American Federation of Government Employees convention in Las Vegas last week elected him to a third three-year term running the 317,000-member union. “I’m ready to put it all on the line and lead our members to victory in every fight and against every challenge,” Cox said. “This is about being the biggest, strongest, most organized, and engaged union there is, and I’m not going to stop until we reach that goal. We see the fight ahead. We will take those challenges head on, and as one union we will prevail!” In today's labor history, On this date in 1831, the slave revolt led by Nat Turner began in Southampton County, Virginia. The rebellion was quashed within two days. In the aftermath of the revolt, officials tried forty-eight black men and women on charges of conspiracy, insurrection, and treason. In total, the state executed 56 people, banished many more, and acquitted 15. The state reimbursed the slaveholders for the slaves who were convicted and executed. But in the hysterical climate that followed the rebellion, close to 120 black people were killed by the militia and white mobs. Today’s labor quote is by Martin Luther King Jr., who said: “Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.”
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