by AFT | Jun 29, 2018 | Hot Topics
The Ladies Shoe Binders Society formed in New York – 1835 Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia for dancing the Turkey Trot. They were on their lunch break, but management thought the dance too racy...
by AFT | Jun 18, 2018 | Hot Topics
June 18 Union and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph and others meet with President Roosevelt about a proposed July 1 March on Washington to protest discrimination in war industries. A week later, Roosevelt orders that the industries desegregate – 1941 June...
by realize | Jun 12, 2018 | Union Contracts
College Faculty Union Contract Department Chair Reassigned Time Tenured/Tenure Track Salary Schedule A Adjunct & Overload Salary Schedules B & C College Faculty Appraisal Guide Licensure/Certification Reimbursement Form Load Banking Application Load Credit...
by AFT | Jun 11, 2018 | Hot Topics
June 11 Representatives from the AFL, Knights of Labor, populists, railroad brotherhoods and other trade unions hold a unity conference in St. Louis but fail to overcome their differences – 1894 Police shoot at maritime workers striking United Fruit Co. in New...
by AFT | Jun 8, 2018 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, Despite all of our Herculean efforts to defeat the Governor’s wrongheaded proposals on the Online College and Performance Based Funding, both have survived to make it into the final budget. Although both proposals have been modified...
