Are you ready to change the rules? Local activists will be joining the AFL-CIO to discuss the most important issues facing labor and community activists at the 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil & Human Rights Conference, coming up January 15–18, 2016. Go to dclabor.org to register before November 30, when the rate goes up. From taking down the confederate flag to fighting against massive deportations—labor and community activists have a strong voice in the changes that this country must make to achieve equality for all working people.
Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1883, some 10,000 New Orleans workers, Black and White, participated in a solidarity parade of unions comprising the Central Trades and Labor Assembly. The parade was so successful it was repeated the following two years. In 1946, teachers struck in St. Paul, Minnesota, the first organized walkout by teachers in the country. The month-long “strike for better schools” involving some 1,100 teachers—and principals—led to a number of reforms in the way schools were administered and operated. In 1952, George Meany became president of the American Federation of Labor following the death four days earlier of William Green. And in 1983, Canadian postal workers, protesting a Post Office decision to offer discounts to businesses but not individuals, announced that for one week they would unilaterally reduce postage costs by about two-thirds. Today’s labor quote is by George Meany: “As long as there are such trade unionists, labor will be opposed by those who seek to portray workers and their unions as separate entities-referring to unions as an unneeded 'third force,' just as the diehard segregationists falsely labeled civil rights organizations as 'outside agitators.'”
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