The International Day of Older Persons, celebrated annually on October 1, was established by a special resolution at the 45th session of the UN General Assembly in 1990. Unfortunately, life has not gotten any better for the vast majority of older people. A clear example of a well-coordinated global attack on the rights of older […]
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The World Federation of Trade Unions on the 3rd of October every year celebrates the historic anniversary of its founding as it deserves, with international mobilization through its declaration as an International Action Day. On this extraordinary occasion of its 79th anniversary that marks the entry of our Federation into its 80th year of existence
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The seventh session for 2024 of the Harry Bridges School of Labor was on the Great San Francisco General Strike. We will be going over the working conditions that led to the strike, the strike itself, as well as its aftermath. We will also watch some of an old ILWU documentary on the strike. The
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The first of two classes from the Harry Bridges School of Labor on the Flint Sit-Down Strike. The Harry Bridges School of Labor aims to educate the workers of America on the strength of unions and to foster a class-conscious workforce through Labor United Educational League. We aim to connect the struggles of the past
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Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ Labor United Educational League is proud to announce we are releasing the recordings from the Harry Bridges School of Labor sessions. Launched in Spring 2023, the Harry Bridges School of Labor is a monthly class held 2x per month. Classes cover a variety of topics aimed at building
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Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/ The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ended a year long investigation in favor of workers at Amazon; specifically, that Amazon is a joint employer of the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) drivers and must now must be recognized as Amazon employees, and therefore they must legally recognize and bargain
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Originally published by the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) – https://www.wftucentral.org/ The WFTU condemns the continues attacks against the Palestinian people by the Israeli occupation forces. While the genocide is taking place in Gaza, the Israeli occupation is escalating its aggressions in the West Bank against the Palestinians. Thousands of Israeli occupation soldiers accompanied
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Harry Bridges was an Australian who moved to the US and became one of the most prolific trade unionists in US history. He along with the Communist Party led the Great San Francisco General Strike. In this class, the PSMLS joins with the Harry Bridges School of Labor to explore more of his life in
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A Norfolk Southern worker has sued the company a year after the East Palestine train derailment that left the area contaminated with vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, proceeding to kill many of the marine and wildlife in the area and devastating the lives of many local citizens. Joseph Lee
Editorial by Michael Iverson IBEW Member on August 9, 2024 On July 21st, 2024, President Biden announced he would not be seeking re-election in 2024 amidst growing unpopularity with the 81 year old President. Only one day later, the AFL-CIO and a number of affiliate unions such as United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the
AFL-CIO Endorsement of Harris Increasingly Puts Them at Odds with Rank-and-File Members Read More »
