June 19 Eight-hour work day adopted for federal employees - 1912 AFL President Sam Gompers and Secretary of War Newton Baker sign an agreement establishing a three-member board of adjustment to control wages, hours and working conditions for construction workers...
6/17 at 2pm: Bi-national U.S.-Mexico Labor Meeting
Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Age of Trump Saturday, June 17th at 2 pm A delegation of labor unionists and activists from across Mexico will be joining with labor unionists and community activists from San Diego. The purpose of this historic bi-national...
AFT Mail Driver Position Opening
Dear AFT Guild Members, A job opportunity as the AFT mail delivery driver is now open due to our long term driver Mike Norris’s retirement. This job involves picking up AFT Guild mail (fliers, newsletters, minutes, new member packets, etc.) from the AFT office...
This Week in Labor History- Week of June 12
June 12 Fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen employed in meatpacking plants walk off their jobs; demands include equalization of wages and conditions throughout U.S. plants - 1904 (No Contract, No Peace: A Legal Guide to Contract...
Lafer Lecture on Charter Schools
This Week in Labor History – Week of June 5th
June 05 Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to form Teamsters for a Democratic Union - 1976 A strike begins at a General Motors Corp. parts factory in Flint, Mich.,...
Immigrant Worker Rights & Defense Training
Trainings are co-sponsored by the California Labor Federation and Central Labor Councils listed in partnership with attorneys from the Weinberg, Roger and Rosenfeld law firm. We invite all unions and Immigrant Worker Rights allies to join us. Registration opens 9...
This Week in Labor History May 29 – June 4
May 29 Animators working for Walt Disney begin what was to become a successful 5-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen Cartoonists' Guild. The animated feature Dumbowas being created at the time and, according to Wikipedia, a number of strikers are...
Adjunct Faculty Unemployment Benefits/Emergency Assistance-End of SPRING SEMESTER
Dear Adjunct Faculty AFT Members, As the spring semester comes to a close, you should be aware that you are eligible to apply for unemployment benefits, even if you have already been given an assignment for the fall (or summer). To receive the maximum benefit,...
This Week in Labor History
This Week in Labor History May 22 Eugene V. Debs imprisoned in Woodstock, Ill., for role in Pullman strike - 1895 (The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs: Eugene V. Debs was a labor activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who captured the...