This Week in Labor History: 2/4 – 2/10

February 04 The Ohio legislature authorizes construction of the 249-mile Miami and Erie Canal, to connect Toledo to Cincinnati. Local historians say "Irish immigrants, convicts and local farmers used picks, shovels and wheelbarrows," at 30 cents per day, to construct...

Scholarship Opportunities – Please announce to students

Dear AFT Guild Members, Please announce the following two scholarship opportunities to any students who you think might benefit: 1)  Students for Economic Justice summer fellowship is a paid $15-an-hour intensive 6-week fulltime employment opportunity. Application is...

Ratification Voting: GCCCD Faculty-New Union Contract!

Dear GCCCD AFT Guild Members,   As I announced on January 16th and discussed during our professional development week presentation last week, we have reached a tentative agreement with the District on a new faculty contract which will run from January 1, 2019...

This Week in Labor History: 1/28 – 2/3

January 28   American Miners’ Association formed - 1861 First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin - 1932 January 29 Responding to unrest among Irish laborers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, President Andrew Jackson orders first use of...

This Week in Labor History: 1/21 – 1/27

January 21 Some 750,000 steel workers walk out in 30 states, largest strike in U.S. history to that time - 1946 Postal workers begin four-day strike at the Jersey City, N.J., bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was led by...