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Labor History Timeline Page
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Labor Movement Film Festival at Spirit of America Bookstore

"Labor is the source of all wealth."
— G.E. Nordell

"Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage has decreased 38% since 1968."
— Howard Dean, 2003

'Economics Or Else!' Pages at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

Classwar & Economics Pages at Working Minds
Working Minds / Books on the Subject: Classwar & Economics

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Selected essay topics from 'WMail'
the Working Minds Philosophy Newsletter

Issue #12 [July 2001] "Independence"
Issue #14 [September 2001] "The Best Investment: Labor"
Issue #18 [December 2001] "The Stock Market Casino"
Issue #19 [January 2002] "Virtual Tea Party"
Issue #21 [March 2002] "Tax Revolt"
Issue #23 [May 2002] "The Class System of America"
Issue #25 [July 2002] "Injustice For All"
Issue #35 [September 2003] "Debt & the Working Mind"
Issue #40 [February 2004] "Paleo-Capitalism"
Issue #42 [April 2004] "The Oligarchy"
Issue #46 [September 2004] "A Living Wage"
Issue #51 [March 2005] "The Three Economies"

Dateline Chamesa weblog [est. 2005]
index of all WMail issues
WMail essays categorized by topic
quotations used in all WMail & weblog issues

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Labor Links

Strength of U.S. Labor Unions {per U.S. Dept. of Labor, 2010}
#1 = N.E.A. (National Education Association) at 2,731,419
#2 = S.E.I.U. (Service Employees International Union) at 1,505,100
#3 = A.F.S.C.M.E. (American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees) at 1,459,511
#4 = International Brotherhood of Teamsters at 1,396,174
#5 = United Food and Commercial Workers International Union at 1,311,548
#6 = American Federation of Teachers at 828,512
#7 = United Steelworkers of America at 754,978
#8 = I.B.E.W. (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) at 704,794
#9 = Laborers' International Union of North America at 669,772
#10 = International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at 653,781
#11 = United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers at 557,099
#12 = C.W.A. (Communications Workers of America) at 545,638
#13 = United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America at 522,416
#14 = Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees at 455,346
#15 = Longshore and Warehouse Union at 424,579
#16 = International Union of Operating Engineers at 392,584
#17 = Maritime Trades Union at 361,362
#18 = United Assn. of . . . the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry at 324,043
#19 = National Association of Letter Carriers at 292,221
#20 = American Postal Workers Union at 286,700
#21 = International Association of Fire Fighters at 271,463
#22 = National Postal Mail Handlers Union at 269,204
#23 = Paper, Allied-Industrial & Chemical International Union at 245,011
#24 = American Federation of Government Employees at 226,975
#25 = Amalgamated Transit Union at 180,598

The United Federation of Indentured Servants [est. 2010]

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A.F.L.-C.I.O. [A.F.L. est. 1886, C.I.O. est. 1935, merged 1955]
AFL-CIO's American Center for International Labor Solidarity [est. 1997]
AFL-CIO's community affiliate Working America [est. 2003] • Main Street blog

Elizabeth H. 'Liz' Shuler - elected AFL-CIO president 8/2021 + Interim Chair, Economic Policy Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Shuler

Richard Trumka [1949-2021] - AFL-CIO president, 2009-2021
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trumka

Intl. Confederation of Free Trade Unions
California Labor Federation [AFL-CIO]
American Federation of Teachers [est. 1916; AFL-CIO]
Intl. Federation of Chemical, Energy Mine, & General Workers' Unions
Communications Workers of America [est. 1947; AFL-CIO]
International Longshore and Warehouse Union [est. 1937; AFL-CIO]
Intl. Assn. of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers [est. 1896]
Fight Back America: United Steelworkers Associate Member Program
National Air Traffic Controllers Assn. [est. 1987; AFL-CIO]
Laborer's International Union of North America [est. 1903; AFL-CIO]
Metropolitan Washington DC Labor Council, AFL-CIO

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Change To Win Coalition [est. June 2005]
Laborers' Intl. Union of North America [est. 1903; CWC]
UNITE-HERE [merged July 2004; CWC]
United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America [est. 1881; CWC]
Service Employees Intl. Union [CWC, CLC]
Purple Ocean affiliate of S.E.I.U.
United Farm Workers of America [CWC]

United Professionals quasi-union [est. 9/2006]
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United [est. 2001]
National Nurses Organizing Committee
California Nurses Assn.
The Alphabet Workers Union [est. 2020] - for employees of all Alphabet, Google, etc. companies
I.B.E.W. Union Local 611 of New Mexico, based in Albuquerque
I.B.E.W. Local 76 [est. 1894] of Tacoma, Washington

The United Federation of Indentured Servants [est. 2010]

The National Labor Committee in Support of Human & Worker Rights
Intl. Labour Orgn. of the United Nations
The Labor Heritage Foundation [est. 1979]
Workers Independent News / Labor Radio
International Labor Communications Assn. [est. 1955]
LaborNet: global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement
People's Weekly World newspaper [est. 1924]
American Rights At Work: advancing democracy in the American workplace [est. 2003]
American Labor Museum - Botto House in Haledon, NJ
U.S. Labor Against The War
United Students Against Sweatshops [est.1998]
help desk for trade union web-staff
Mining History Assn.
safety products at Victor House Publications
LaborNet: online communications for the democratic labor movement
American Labor Museum - Botto House in Haledon, NJ
International Justice Day on June 15th
Sweatshop Hall of Shame of the International Labor Rights Forum

The Universal Living Wage Campaign
U.S. Dept. of Labor 'History of the Minimum Wage'
Working Minds Essay #46: "A Living Wage" from September 2004

April {the date varies} is when women in the U.S.A. have worked to earn the same pay that men received at the prior year-end.
Equal Pay Day [est. 1996] is sponsored by the National Committee on Pay Equity [est. 1979].

July 31st is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which marks how long into the year that an Afro-American woman
has to work in order to match the prior year's wages of her white male counterparts.

I.W.W. {'Wobblies'} page at Spirit of America Bookstore

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American Labor History Timeline
'timeline of labor issues & events' page at Wikipedia

"A Brief History of Unions" [1.5 minute short] from PA-AFLCIO on YouTube

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this page kept growing, of course, so the Timeline Section was cut to its own page in May 2024
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Labor News

The labor movement in the United States isn't doing a lot lately
and-or they get meager coverage on the fascist media channels

. . . what labor news there may be can be found on
Workers Independent News radio service

Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video [2018]
'training' video sent in 2018 to managers after the takeover of Whole Foods; leaked in mid-2019
watch full video [6/2019 upload; 29:02] online at YouTube

Friday 23 November 2012
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union already has or is working to gain representation of workers at Wal-Mart in the U.S. Wal-Mart management kept tightening the screws – firing organizers, cutting hours per employee, holding mandatory meetings to tell employees who to vote for in local elections – so the kettle began to boil. Wildcat strikes and protests began at stores in October and November 2012, then union and non-union groups decided to stage demonstrations during the 'Black Friday' shopping frenzy on the day after Thanksgiving. Wal-Mart filed a legal complaint with the N.L.R.B. asserting illegal picketing, but the N.L.R.B.'s decision not to decide allowed the protests against Wal-Mart's vile labor practices to take place on November 23. Wal-Mart corporate downplayed the turnout, reporting that only fifty employees participated nationwide. Objective reports counted 1,000 protestors in Paramount, California - 17 identified as employees; 400 rallied at one Maryland store; 200 in bitter-cold St. Paul, Minnesota; large crowds protested in California, Oklahoma, DC Metro, and New Mexico, plus hundreds of other stores. (Broadcast media failed their duty to report the matter, most likely to protect Wal-Mart ad revenue.)
non-union 'OUR Walmart' group • union-based 'Making Change At Wal-Mart' group

Friday 9 November 2012
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union began a nationwide strike by 5,000 members against Hostess Brands, Inc. The hedge fund owners of Hiostess were asking union workers to take cuts in pay and healthcare and pensions, while giving themselves 80-percent pay increases. Hostess was already in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced November 16 that the company will now liquidate, a loss of 18,500 jobs.

Los Angeles Times
Thursday 11 December 2003
Business Section / California [page C-2]
Workers, Labor Leaders Rally in Los Angeles for Union Rights
       by Nancy Cleeland [L.A. Times Staff Writer]
       Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and a host of political, religious and community leaders, more than 1,000 workers marched to Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday for a boisterous, labor-sponsored rally — one of dozens of actions staged across the country to promote the right to organize unions.
        Marchers ranged from private security guards to newspaper reporters.
        "It's very difficult to overcome people's fear," said Richard Bergendahl, a security officer at a downtown high-rise who has been trying to organize his co-workers under the Service Employees International Union. "The bosses threaten to fire you, and if you're on marginal pay, you have to take that threat seriously."
        Also joining in the noontime event were reporters for the Chinese Daily News in Monterey Park, who have been embroiled in a two-year battle to join the Communication Workers of America.
        Union leaders, who claim federal labor laws are outdated and stacked against organized labor, hoped the events would spark a national discussion about organizing rights.
        "We want to get into a real fight for the rights of American workers to freely form unions, to restore that right, which is a fundamental human right," said Stewart Acuff, organizing director for the AFL-CIO, speaking by telephone from Atlanta, where he was among 500 union members who took over the headquarters of a law firm that specializes in fighting union drives.
        Acuff said about 20,000 workers are illegally fired each year for advocating unionization, and employers rarely are penalized for it. He also said the National Labor Relations Act, which governs union elections, had not been updated to reflect current employment trends, such as outsourcing and the use of temporary agencies.

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