by AFT | Jul 19, 2019 | Hot Topics
Museum of Tolerance Bus Trip – Now! download Dear AFT Guild Members, We still have about two dozen seats left to fill our second bus, so we are extending the ticket purchase deadline to Friday, August 2nd. You can click here to purchase your ticket...
by AFT | Jul 17, 2019 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, Please see the message below from CFT President Jeff Freitas regarding our potential litigation against the Online College. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any additional information. In Unity, Jim Original copy of letter Dear...
by AFT | Jul 15, 2019 | Hot Topics
July 15 Some 50,000 lumberjacks strike for 8-hour day – 1917 Ralph Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Camp Hill, Ala. – 1931 A half-million steelworkers begin what is to become a 116-day...
by AFT | Jul 8, 2019 | Hot Topics
July 08 First anthracite coal strike in U.S. – 1842 Labor organizer Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor born on Staten Island, N.Y. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing...
by AFT | Jun 10, 2019 | Hot Topics
June 10 The mayor of Monroe, Mich. organizes a vigilante mob of 1,400 armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the organizing picket line of 200 striking workers at Newton Steel. The line is broken; eight are injured and hospitalized. Sixteen workers’ cars were...
