Labor Day
A book for Labor Day: “Playing Bigger Than You Are – A Life In Organizing”
August 30, 2012This Labor Day workers will be marching and highlighting union and election struggles around the country. After the marches, it might be a good time to kick back and read a good book by a leader...
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Thousands fill New York’s Fifth Ave. to celebrate labor
September 12, 2011On September 10, Labor Day, New York City's main thoroughfare, Fifth Avenue, was filled for 30 blocks with thousands of union families celebrating the labor movement.
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Ohio Labor Day fests defy “economic royalists”
September 7, 2011Boosting the fight against Republican attacks on union and voting rights, tens of thousands rallied at Labor Day picnics, festivals and marches in cities throughout Ohio.
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Port workers spend Labor Day on picket line
September 7, 2011LONGVIEW, Wash. - Embattled dockworkers marched on their picket lines, Labor Day weekend, standing tall against EGT, the international grain consortium that seeks to break the union at their huge new grain terminal in the Port...
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Great day for labor: Obama goes to Milwaukee
September 7, 2010MILWAUKEE -- There was one clear message everyone in the crowd at Laborfest here took home with them September 6: the true meaning of Labor Day.
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