This Week in Labor History: 12/10 – 12/16

December 10 First sit-down strike in U.S. called by IWW at General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. – 1906 Int’l Human Rights Day, commemorating the signing at the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states, in part: “Everyone has the...

Support Local Groups that are Helping the Migrant Caravana

Support Local Groups that are Helping the Migrant Caravana Otay Mesa Detention Resistance OMDR collects donations and take them to the shelters in Tijuana. They need volunteers to organize donations in San Diego and deliver them  to Tijuana. They also need volunteers...

Official Final Board of Trustee Election Results

Dear AFT Guild Members, The Registrar of Voters has finished counting all provisional ballots, the results are below. We look forward to working with all of our newly elected and re-elected Board of Trustee Members!  All Board members will be sworn in  to begin their...

Test Report

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AFL-CIO Celebrates 63rd Anniversary Today!

The Labor Wire Dec. 5, 2018 Sixty-three years ago today on Dec. 5, 1955, American Federation of Labor President George Meany (UA) and Congress of Industrial Organizations President Walter Reuther (UAW) stood before a packed crowd of union leaders and labor activists...