Today in labor history: first legal protest by slaves in New York
On this date in 1644 the first "legal" protest by Africans in America occurred.
Today in black history: Leontyne Price born
Her voice was "rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C."
NLRB OKs rules to streamline union election procedures
Union leaders welcomed the NLRB's proposals. The right wing House GOP and the National Retail Federation screamed.
Biden blasts “right-to-work”
Business and right wing backers of so-called "right to work" laws really want "the right for them to eliminate your right to have a say in your work."
Power company continues lockout despite big snowstorm
Utility Workers Union of America System Local 102 today strongly criticized the continuing lockout of nearly 150 utility workers.
U.S. unionists back domestic worker from India
A group of U.S. unionists made it quite clear to India's ambassador to the U.S. that his nation's diplomats should stop treating their own domestic workers as serfs.
Altoona rally backs locked-out utility workers
The show of support heartened the members of Utility Workers Local 102, who have manned a constant picket line.
Unions jump into the controversy over Keystone pipeline
Environmental activists, among them many union members, are escalating their protests against approval of the pipeline.
Today in black history: Medgar Evers’ killer convicted
White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred.
UAW's King: "Activism is needed to overcome obstructionists"
In a message to 1,000-plus activists at UAW's political action conference in D.C., the union leader said activism is even more necessary because 2014 is an election year, when foes of workers will go all out against them.
