Monday, December 17, 2012

Today in Labor History

December 17  --  SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

International Union of Aluminum, Brick & Glass Workers merges with United Steelworkers of America - 1996






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Today in labor history (international edition), December 17, 1918: Protesting unemployment, lack of political representation, and taxation without representation, 1,000 members of the Australian Workers’ Union, led by Harold Nelson, march
on the Government House in Darwin, Australia, demanding the resignation of John Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory. Gilruth left under military protection, never to return, and Nelson went on to win the first Territory seat in Australia’s House of Representatives.
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The details of Kasich’s Turnpike Plan are still emerging. Yet we know enough now to question whether the plan is constitutional. Two aspects of the plan raise significant issues under the U.S.

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