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Chicago Labor Holds May Day Rally
Number 77 June 2009 Chicago Labor Holds May Day Rally Power Dignity Respect Union Yes! Remembering the Haymarket Martyrs Building International Labor Solidarity John Sweeney Richard Trumka President Secretary-Treasurer AFL-CIO Dedicated May 1, 2009 Ross Hyman , representing the AFL-CIO officers, delivers their message.. Text of plaque now being manufactured. AFL-CIO Presents It’s Plaque for Haymarket Memorial Chicago workers celebrated May Day with an after- Spivack addressed the gathering with welcoming remarks, noon rally in Haymarket Square by the Memorial Sculp- and Trustee J ames Thindwa of Jobs with Justice acted as ture at Randolph and DesPlaines. The crowd cheered the Master of Ceremonies. The text for the plaque was turned presentation of a plaque from the AFL-CIO to be attached to over to Nathan Mason, Special Projects Curator for the Chi- the base of the Monument. Last year’s plaque came from the cago Department of Cultural Affairs. Chicago Federation of Labor. Other plaques have been pre- Among those who addressed the meeting were: Tim sented by unions in Iraq, Columbia, S.A. and UNI (Union Yeager of UAW; C. J. Hawking of ARISE; Margarita Klein, Network International). Chief of Staff, Workers United; Skippy (as he prefers to be Ross Hyman, spokesman for the AFL-CIO, delivered a called) of the IWW; and Armando Robles, President of UE message from President John Sweeney, Secretary- Local 1110 which had occupied Republic Windows and Treasurer Richard Trumka and Executive Vice President Doors. Arlene Holt Baker. They declared: “Because we believe Well known folksinger Bucky Halker had the crowd sing- deeply in solidarity with workers everywhere, we’re proud ing along with him as he opened and closed the event. -
Organizations Endorsing the Equality Act
647 ORGANIZATIONS ENDORSING THE EQUALITY ACT National Organizations 9to5, National Association of Working Women Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC A Better Balance Asian American Federation A. Philip Randolph Institute Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) ACRIA Association of Flight Attendants – CWA ADAP Advocacy Association Association of Title IX Administrators - ATIXA Advocates for Youth Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists AFGE Athlete Ally AFL-CIO Auburn Seminary African American Ministers In Action Autistic Self Advocacy Network The AIDS Institute Avodah AIDS United BALM Ministries Alan and Leslie Chambers Foundation Bayard Rustin Liberation Initiative American Academy of HIV Medicine Bend the Arc Jewish Action American Academy of Pediatrics Black and Pink American Association for Access, EQuity and Diversity BPFNA ~ Bautistas por la PaZ American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBTQ Interests American Association of University Women (AAUW) Caring Across Generations American Atheists Catholics for Choice American Bar Association Center for American Progress American Civil Liberties Union Center for Black Equity American Conference of Cantors Center for Disability Rights American Counseling Association Center for Inclusivity American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Center for Inquiry Employees (AFSCME) Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies American Federation of Teachers CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers American Heart Association Central Conference -
LETTER LABOR ADVISORY BOARD SEPTEMBER 2015 Vol
Published By AMERICAN INCOME LIFE & NATIONAL INCOME LIFE LETTER LABOR ADVISORY BOARD SEPTEMBER 2015 Vol. 47 No. 5 NEWS FROM THE Dodd-Frank financial law. “At a time when 300 times in 2013, according to an analysis AFL-CIO, CTW, corporate profits are near an all-time high last year by the Economic Policy Institute. and income inequality is growing, employ- INTERNATIONAL & ees and shareholders have a right to know A coalition of unions recently NATIONAL UNIONS whether companies are padding the wal- negotiated the first-ever national tentative lets of executives at the cost of workers and settlement with the American Red Cross Five presidential candidates the company’s bottom line,” said Teamsters for 4,000 health care workers in 24 states. met with the nation’s top union leaders at Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall. “It’s time Union members will have until October 2 the AFL-CIO Executive Council meet- we learn from the past failings that helped to approve the agreement. The coalition in- ing in Washington, D.C. in July. They are cause the Great Recession.” AFL-CIO Pres- cludes the Teamsters, American Federation Senators Bernie Sanders, Jim Webb, and ident Richard Trumka said the rule will al- of State, County and Municipal Employees, Hillary Clinton, and Governors Martin low shareholders to determine whether CEO American Federation of Teachers (HPAE O’Malley, all Democrats, and Republican pay is out of balance in comparison to what a and Oregon Nurses), Communications Mike Huckabee. “We are grateful to them company pays its workers. “We hope this rule Workers of America, United Auto Work- for making the time to talk with the elected will help investors make sound decisions ers, United Food & Commercial Workers, representatives of 12.5 million working men when they vote on executive compensation United Steelworkers and Service Employ- and women in America,” said AFL-CIO packages,” he said. -
Nondiscrimination in Health and Health
Officers May 20, 2020 Chair Judith L. Lichtman National Partnership for Women & Families Vice Chairs Thomas A. Saenz Mexican American Legal The Honorable Alex Azar Derek Kan Defense and Educational Fund Hilary Shelton Secretary Executive Associate Director NAACP Secretary/Treasurer U.S. Department of Health and Office of Management and Budget Lee A. Saunders American Federation of State, Human Services 725 17th Street NW County & Municipal Employees 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20503 Board of Directors Kevin Allis National Congress of American Indians Washington, DC 20201 Kimberly Churches AAUW Paul Ray Kristen Clarke Lawyers' Committee for Roger Severino OIRA Administrator Civil Rights Under Law Alphonso B. David Director Office of Management and Budget Human Rights Campaign Rory Gamble Office for Civil Rights 725 17th Street NW International Union, UAW Lily Eskelsen García U.S. Department of Health and Washington, DC 20503 National Education Association Fatima Goss Graves Human Services National Women's Law Center Mary Kay Henry 200 Independence Avenue SW Seema Verma Service Employees International Union Sherrilyn Ifill Washington, DC 20201 Administrator NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services David H. Inoue Japanese American Citizens League 7500 Security Boulevard Derrick Johnson NAACP Baltimore, Maryland 21244 Virginia Kase League of Women Voters of the United States Michael B. Keegan People for the American Way Samer E. Khalaf Re: Nondiscrimination in Health and Health -
2014 Year in Review Dear ILHS Members
Illinois Labor History Society 430 South Michigan Ave. Room AUD 1361 Chicago, IL 60605 2014 Year in Review Dear ILHS Members, I am very pleased to present to you this edition of “The Reporter,” the Illinois Labor History Society newsletter. Longtime members of ILHS probably remember “The Reporter.” Hopefully you will be as pleased as we are at the renewal of our publication with this special 2014 Year in Review edition. 2014 was in many ways of year of transition for the ILHS. It was a year of loss, as we mourned the passing of Les Orear. Les was one of the founders of our organization, and his energy and commitment to the project of labor history was at the heart of everything we have accomplished for more than four decades. It was year of change, as we moved our offices to Roosevelt University. Our relationship with Roosevelt will allow us to increase access to the ILHS archives. It was a year of new beginnings, as we hired our first full time Executive Director, Stephanie Seawell, who joins ILHS from finishing her PhD in history at the University of Illinois, in Champaign-Urbana. In this ILHS 2014 Year in Review we have shared some of our programs, activities, and initiatives over the past year. Please know that all of what you read in these pages was only accomplished through the generous support of members like you. Hopefully the stories and updates you read on these pages will inspire you to renew your membership with ILHS, if you have not already done so. -
Configurations of Masculinity in the Pittston Coal Strike
POLITICSKAREN BECKWITH & SOCIETY Gender Frames and Collective Action: Configurations of Masculinity in the Pittston Coal Strike KAREN BECKWITH This article develops the concept of gender frame for understanding major transfor- mations in the collective action repertoires of social movements. Focusing on the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) strike against the Pittston Coal Group (1989-90), the article discusses the UMWA’s traditional collective action repertoire and its innovation of nonviolent protest, widely employed during the strike. Inter- views with major activists and UMWA staff and officers illustrate how the UMWA employed a gender frame of mining masculinities to initiate the new nonviolent strike action. The article concludes by suggesting how collective action repertoires and framing are linked and encouraging future research on gender frames in social movements. “It is precisely the masculinity of mining as a task that gives gender its relevance.”1 Coal mining is one of the most male-predominant industries in the United States. The nature of the work—underground, dangerous, and physically demanding—has marked it as one of the most romantically “masculine” occupa- tions. The popular image of the coal miner is that of a man: brave, physically strong, militant, face blackened with coal dust, fiercely independent, anachronis- My work on comparative mining strikes owes much to my colleagues in political science, women’s studies, and labor studies. I have benefited from discussions with Sidney Tarrow, Lee Ann Banaszak, Chris Howell, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, David Meyer, Eve Sandberg, Mary Margaret Fonow, Myra Young Armstead, Mary Collar, Eric Karolak, Greg Kaster, Paul Mishler, Ruth Needleman, and Ellen Todd. -
GOV. MSG. NO. Bas Rksume William J
GOV. MSG. NO. bas RkSUME William J. Puette December 20 18 1. Full Name: William Joseph Puette 2. Work Address: University of Hawai'i -West O'ahu Center for Labor Education & Research Email: Home Address: 3. Current Employment Status: Director of the Center for Labor Education and Research and tenured Specialist in Labor Education on the faculty of the University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu Center for Labor Education and Research. (University of Hawai'i faculty since 1982; Director since July 1993). 4. Degrees: Degree Institution Maior Minor Ph.D. University of Hawai'i American StudiedLabor M.A. University of Pennsylvania, Edibor Literature B.A. St. Vincent College, Pennsylvania English Education 5. Other Professional Credentials: Professional Registered Parliamentarian, by National Association of Parliamentarians Certified Parliamentarian by the American Institute of Parliamentarians 6. Awards: Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Faculty Service to the Community Award University of Hawai'i, 2005. Lowell-Mellett Award for Media Criticism 1993, awarded by Penn State University. The 1994 George Meany Award for Outstanding Service to Youth, awarded by the Hawai'i State AFL-CIO and the Aloha Council of the Boy Scouts of America. '1' 7. Publications: Books: NilLula HAWvai: A Parliamentary Guide to Conducting Meetings in Hawaiian, Hawai'i State Association of Parliamentarians (Honolulu, Hawai'i) 20 14. Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor, Cornel1 University, ILR Press (Ithaca, New York) 1992. The Hilo Massacre: Hawait's Bloody Monday August 1st 1938 University of Hawai'i, Center for Labor Education & Research (Honolulu, Hawai'i), 1988. A Reader's Guide to the Tale of Genii, Charles E. -
Tom Kahn and the Fight for Democracy: a Political Portrait and Personal Recollection
Tom Kahn and the Fight for Democracy: A Political Portrait and Personal Recollection Rachelle Horowitz Editor’s Note: The names of Tom Kahn and Rachelle Horowitz should be better known than they are. Civil rights leader John Lewis certainly knew them. Recalling how the 1963 March on Washington was organised he said, ‘I remember this young lady, Rachelle Horowitz, who worked under Bayard [Rustin], and Rachelle, you could call her at three o'clock in the morning, and say, "Rachelle, how many buses are coming from New York? How many trains coming out of the south? How many buses coming from Philadelphia? How many planes coming from California?" and she could tell you because Rachelle Horowitz and Bayard Rustin worked so closely together. They put that thing together.’ There were compensations, though. Activist Joyce Ladner, who shared Rachelle Horowitz's one bedroom apartment that summer, recalled, ‘There were nights when I came in from the office exhausted and ready to sleep on the sofa, only to find that I had to wait until Bobby Dylan finished playing his guitar and trying out new songs he was working on before I could claim my bed.’ Tom Kahn also played a major role in organising the March on Washington, not least in writing (and rewriting) some of the speeches delivered that day, including A. Philip Randolph’s. When he died in 1992 Kahn was praised by the Social Democrats USA as ‘an incandescent writer, organizational Houdini, and guiding spirit of America's Social Democratic community for over 30 years.’ This account of his life was written by his comrade and friend in 2005. -
Sweating for Democracy: Working-Class Media and the Struggle for Hegemonic Jewishness, 1919-1941 by Brian Craig Dolber Dissertat
SWEATING FOR DEMOCRACY: WORKING-CLASS MEDIA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HEGEMONIC JEWISHNESS, 1919-1941 BY BRIAN CRAIG DOLBER DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committe: Professor Robert W. McChesney, Chair Professor James R. Barrett Professor John C. Nerone Associate Professor Inger Lisbeth Stole ii Abstract Using the framework of political economy of media, this dissertation examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, J.B.S. Hardman, Fannia Cohn, and Morris Novik, employed strategies to maintain the Yiddish-language newspaper the Forward, worker education programs, and radio station WEVD. These forms of media and cultural production were shaped by internal conflicts and struggles within the counterpublic, as well as evolving practices and ideas around advertising, public relations, and democracy. Vladeck, Hardman, Cohn and Novik all helped to extend Yiddish socialist culture through the reactionary 1920s while laying the groundwork for an American working class culture represented by the CIO in the 1930s, and a broad consensus around a commercial media system by the postwar period. This history demonstrates the challenges, conflicts, and contradictions that emerge in media production within counterpublics, and posits that other similar case studies are necessary in order develop enlightened strategies to democratize our contemporary media system. iii Acknowledgments While this dissertation is the product of many years of labor on my part, I can not imagine having completed it without the support and inspiration of so many people. -
CONGRATULATIONS! President Trumka
WORLD PEACE PRIZE PRESIDENT RICHARD L. TRUMKA, AFL-CIO 2015 RECIPIENT FEBRUARY 3, 2016 • WASHINGTON, DC WORLD PEACE PRIZE AWARDING COUNCIL IRISH NATIONAL CAUCUS PO BOX 15128 • CAPITOL HILL • WASHINGTON, DC 20003-0849 PROGRAM WORLD PEACE PRIZE PRESENTATION PRESIDENT RICHARD L. TRUMKA, AFL-CIO 2015 RECIPIENT February 3, 2016 • 2:30-4:30 p.m. Chairperson ........................................ Barbara Flaherty, Corporate Manager-Judge Opening Remarks ................................................... Fr. Sean Mc Manus, Chief Judge Comments ........................................... Rev. Dr. Han Min Su, Founder-World Leader Presentation of World Peace Prize to President Trumka Acceptance Address ........................................................................President Trumka Closing .............................................................................................Barbara Flaherty POPE FRANCIS ON SOLIDARITY: “This word solidarity is too often forgotten or silenced, because it is uncomfortable. It almost seems like a bad word...solidarity. I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity.” July 25, 2013. 2 3 WORLD PEACE PRIZE AWARDING COUNCIL Washington Office: P.O. Box 15128, Washington, D.C. 20003-0849 Tel: 202-544-0568 • Fax: 202-488-7537 [email protected] [email protected] JUDGES, WORLD PEACE PRIZE AWARDING COUNCIL First row, L-R: Judge, USA, Dr. Herman Keck, Jr.; Co-Founder, South Korea, Dr. Han Min Su; Chief Judge, USA, Fr. Sean Mc Manus; Judge, Canada-Hong Kong, Dr. Shiu Loon Kong Second row, L-R: Judge, India, Dr. Bhupatray M. Oza; Judge, Israel, Dr. Asher Naim; Judge, Philippines, Dr. Carlito S. Puno; Judge, Egypt, Dr. -
Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus -- in Re AFL-CIO
USCA Case #20-1158 Document #1843197 Filed: 05/18/2020 Page 1 of 70 No. 19-1158________ ___________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ___________________________ In re: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Petitioner. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor Respondent. ____________________________ EMERGENCY PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS, AND REQUEST FOR EXPEDITED BRIEFING AND DISPOSITION ____________________________ Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure and Circuit Rule 21, and in accordance with Telecomm. Research & Action Ctr. v. FCC (“TRAC”), 750 F.2d 70 (D.C. Cir. 1984), and its progeny, Petitioner American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (“AFL-CIO”) hereby petitions this Court to issue a writ of mandamus under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), compelling Respondent Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor (“OSHA”) to issue—within thirty (30) days of this Court’s grant of the writ—an Emergency Temporary Standard for Infectious Diseases (“ETS”) aimed at protecting the life and health of millions of workers USCA Case #20-1158 Document #1843197 Filed: 05/18/2020 Page 2 of 70 throughout the United States in grave danger from the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Given the urgency of the situation confronting workers in the United States, especially those classified as “essential” workers and thus currently at work as well as those workers being called back to work as government-imposed stay-at- home orders are lifted, the AFL-CIO further requests that this Court provide for expedited briefing and disposition of the petition. -
Unions Implementing Managerial Techniques
Unions implementing managerial techniques National unions are gradually adopting the sophisticated management selection and training practices of business and government but employment and promotion decisions remain essentially political Lois S. GRAY In sharp contrast to their counterparts at the bargaining results, comparisons are made, where possible, with the tables, labor unions have traditionally given relatively selection and training of managers in business and gov- little attention to the selection and training of their pro- ernment . fessional staff.' Results of a 1977-78 survey of national Divergent personnel practices unions and employee organizations suggest an .emerging trend bringing them more into line with established per- Selection. In business and government, selection of man- sonnel practices of business and government . College agement personnel is usually a carefully planned and graduates, long sought by other employers, find doors somewhat elaborate process based on formal criteria beginning to open in labor unions ; the recent elections and objective tests designed to screen applicants for de- of college graduates as president and secretary-treasurer sired attributes . Education and job-related training are of the AFL-CIO symbolize this change .' Formalized given heavy weight in the selection criteria . training, generally required for upward mobility in busi- National unions, however, have traditionally used a ness and government, is gaining acceptance among political staff selection process, rewarding demonstrated unions . Even more striking, some of the recently inau- leadership and loyalty at the local level .a In 1956, gurated union staff training programs resemble in con- Harold Wilensky's path-breaking study of Intellectuals tent and format those offered for management in other in Labor Unions found that the relatively few college organizations .