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Monday Morning in the Blogosphere
Charlie Packard with Cesar Calderon
What Housing Recovery? - New York Times
The day the music died… - The Media Online
Today’s unfortunate ad placement - Romenesko
E-Commerce Turning to Print to Boost Sales - Josic
The acquisition binge in local TV - Pew Research Center
Changing Landscape of Newspapers - The Epoch Times
Blade raises possibility of outsourcing production - Toledo Free Press
Iranian Ministry of Culture shuts down two newspapers in two days - UPI
Newsprint shortage causes state of emergency for Venezuelan newspaper - Diego Cruz
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Today in Labor History
May 12
Laundry & Dry Cleaning Int’l Union granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1958
Int’l Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots merges with Longshoremen’s Association - 1971
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raid the Agriprocessors, Inc. slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrant workers. Some 300 are convicted on document fraud charges. The raid was the largest ever until that date. Several employees and lower and mid-level managers were convicted on various charges, but not the owner—although he later was jailed for bank fraud and related crimes - 2008
(Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan: Many workers around the globe leave all that’s familiar in an effort to find employment. Newspaper and magazine reports tell us about how miserable life is for garment workers in Third World sweatshops. But we’ve read very little in the workers’ own words, and that’s what this fascinating book offers. In Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin, 25-year-old Chun Yu Wang tells of her life as a Chinese emigrant to Saipan, searching for a better life 2,000 miles from her home.)
(Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan: Many workers around the globe leave all that’s familiar in an effort to find employment. Newspaper and magazine reports tell us about how miserable life is for garment workers in Third World sweatshops. But we’ve read very little in the workers’ own words, and that’s what this fascinating book offers. In Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin, 25-year-old Chun Yu Wang tells of her life as a Chinese emigrant to Saipan, searching for a better life 2,000 miles from her home.)
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Today in Labor History
May 10 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first
transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah - 1869
transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah - 1869
U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union. It favors industrial organization and independent labor party politics - 1898
A federal bankruptcy judge permits United Airlines to legally abandon responsibility for pensions covering 120,000 employees - 2005
Friday, May 09, 2014
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Friday Morning in the Blogosphere
Los Angeles Times Employees gather at the Olympic Production Facility
for the Love Ride 2004
Doing More with Less in the Pressroom - Editor and Publisher
New Los Angeles Times website: innovative, inspiring - Garcia Media
Sun-Times editor joins expanded Tribune news service - Robert Feder
Circulation declines reported at area newspapers - Schenectady Gazette
Sun adds most sales among all daily national newspapers - The Guardian
AAM releases circ numbers; USAT maintains top spot - News and Tech
Pulitzer Prize winner David Barstow joins Poynter adjunct faculty - Poynter
Ukrainian journalist warns: Russian troops are targeting reporters - Editors Weblog
Newspapers show solid gains in digital circulation in latest Snapshot - Talking New Media
Stamp Out Hunger food drive - TOMORROW
Every second Saturday in May, letter carriers in more than 10,000 cities and towns across America collect the goodness and compassion of their postal customers, who participate in the NALC Stamp Out Hunger National Food Drive — the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
Led by letter carriers represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO), with help from rural letter carriers, other postal employees and other volunteers, the drive has delivered more than one billion pounds of food the past 20 years.
Carriers collect non-perishable food donations left by mailboxes and in post offices and deliver them to local community food banks, pantries and shelters. Nearly 1,500 NALC branches in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands are involved.
USPS and Campbell Soup Company are major supporters. Campbell Soup earmarked an additional 1 million pounds of canned food to the drive. Other supporters are AARP, Feeding America, Publix, Valassis/Red Plum, Cox Target Media and Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, which promotes the drive on 40 million packets delivered to postal customers.
The drive also relies on the backing of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, the Feeding America food bank network, the United Way of America and its local United Ways, the AFL-CIO Community Services network, Uncle Bob's Self Storage and countless local sponsors.
To donate, just place a box or can of non-perishable food next to your mailbox before your letter carrier delivers mail on the second Saturday in May. The carrier will do the rest. The food is sorted, and delivered to an area food bank or pantry, where it is available for needy families.
With more than 50 million people facing hunger every day in America, including nearly 17 million children, this drive is one way you can help those in your own city or town who need help.
The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive has received a number of accolades over the years, including two Presidential Certificates of Achievement.
Today in Labor History
May 09 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Japanese workers strike at Oahu, Hawaii’s Aiea Plantation, demanding the same pay as Portuguese and Puerto Rican workers. Ultimately 7,000 workers and their families remained out until August, when the strike was broken - 1909
Legendary Western Federation of Miners leader William “Big Bill” Haywood goes on trial for murder in the bombing death of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg, who had brutally suppressed the state’s miners. Haywood ultimately was declared innocent - 1907
Longshoremen’s strike to gain control of hiring leads to general work stoppage, San Francisco Bay area - 1934
Hollywood studio mogul Louis B. Mayer recognizes the Screen Actors Guild. SAG leaders reportedly were bluffing when they
told Mayer that 99 percent of all actors would walk out the next morning unless he dealt with the union. Some 5,000 actors attended a victory gathering the following day at Hollywood Legion Stadium; a day later, SAG membership increased 400 percent - 1937
(“Bluffing” might have worked for SAG leaders in 1937, but it’s likely to be insufficient as a bargaining strategy. Readers of Turning the Tide: Strategic Planning for Labor Unions will benefit from author David Weil’s experience working with national, regional and local unions, as well as his expertise in labor relations and economics, as he presents labor leaders with tools to strengthen both their unions and their relations with management.)
told Mayer that 99 percent of all actors would walk out the next morning unless he dealt with the union. Some 5,000 actors attended a victory gathering the following day at Hollywood Legion Stadium; a day later, SAG membership increased 400 percent - 1937(“Bluffing” might have worked for SAG leaders in 1937, but it’s likely to be insufficient as a bargaining strategy. Readers of Turning the Tide: Strategic Planning for Labor Unions will benefit from author David Weil’s experience working with national, regional and local unions, as well as his expertise in labor relations and economics, as he presents labor leaders with tools to strengthen both their unions and their relations with management.)
United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and his wife May die in a plane crash as they travel to oversee construction of the union’s education and training facility at Black Lake, Mich. - 1971
Four thousand garment workers, mostly Hispanic, strike for union recognition at the Farah Manufacturing Co. in El Paso, Texas - 1972
Printing Press at 100,000 copies per hour
Printing press running at 100,000 copies per hour. Man Roland Lithoman web press. From roll-stand to folder in the press-room.
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
Why Page Views Suck - Newspaper Death Watch
Shrinking newspaper is irritating - Saint Louis Today
Four Big Lies About Inequality - Capital and Main News
Sault Star Announces Massive Cuts Locally - Wawa-news
How futuristic vision is becoming a reality - NW Evening Mail
We are drowning in data about readers and attention - Gigaom
Why does Buffett get a free pass from the media? - MarketWatch
Washington state official wants to tax newspapers as polluters - Poynter
Ownership in Guardian's parent company may shift - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Tribune Publishing taking full ownership of McClatchy Tribune info services - Romenesko
Today in Labor History
May 08 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The constitution of the Brotherhood of the Footboard was ratified by engineers in Detroit, Mich. Later became the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers - 1863
Jerry Wurf, who was to serve as president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1964 to his death 1981, born in New York City. The union grew from about 220,000 members to more than 1 million during his presidency - 1919
About 200 construction workers in New York City attack a crowd of Vietnam war protesters four days after the Kent State killings. More than 70 people were injured, including four police officers. Peter Brennan, head of the New York building trades, was honored at the Nixon White House two weeks later, eventually named Secretary of Labor - 1970
Some 12,000 Steelworker-represented workers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber win an 18-day strike for improved wages and job security - 1997
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Wednesday Morning in the Blogosphere
Mike Klop sent this to us with Charlie Packard and other colleagues
with their baseball team from Chatsworth LAT, photo from 1987-88
Los Angeles Times' Ken Dilanian jumps to AP - Politico
Fairfax plans to axe staff from its newspapers - Herald Sun
Woman delivering newspapers dies in crash - Daily Journal
Print is not the future, but it's not the past either - The Guardian
Newspapers the Way They Used to Be - Guardian Liberty Voice
Uh oh, newspapers are looking like attractive investments again - CJR
Tribune CEO Sees Shows Like ‘Salem’ as Company’s Future - Bloomberg
Bloomberg News Tried Poaching The New York Times' Dean Baquet - Huff Post
New L.A. Times site: precooked tweets and a new flavor of infinite scroll - Poynter
Los Angeles Times Reunion - Photo Collection
Fifty or more Los Angeles Times retirees gathered yesterday for a mini reunion, that was very festive. Photos of the gathering were captured and uploaded to Flickr, click here to view yesterday's event and past gatherings the last few years. A big thank you to Emmett Jaime III for organizing the breakfasts for us.
Today in Labor History
May 07 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The Knights of St. Crispin union is formed at a secret meeting in Milwaukee. It grew to 50,000 members before being crushed by employers later that year - 1867
Two die, 20 are injured in “Bloody Tuesday” as strikebreakers attempt to run San Francisco streetcars during a strike by operators. The strike was declared lost in 1908 after many more deaths, including several in scab-operated streetcar accidents - 1907
Philadelphia’s longest transit strike ends after 44 days. A key issue in the fight was the hiring and use of part-timers - 1977
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Tribune Company Retirees Beware
Let's hope the feds are keeping an eye on the Tribune Co. pension fund, because we know we can't trust Tribune Co. executives to look out for the best interests of the employees other than themselves.
From: Tribune Communications
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 12:09 PM
Subject: Message From Melanie Hughes/Important Information Being Mailed to Your Home
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 12:09 PM
Subject: Message From Melanie Hughes/Important Information Being Mailed to Your Home
For the past several months, as Tribune has prepared for the separation of its publishing businesses from the rest of the company, we’ve been considering the best structure for our pension plans and 401(k) plans going forward. We’ve decided that the best course of action is to establish separate, new 401(k) plans for both Tribune Publishing employees and Tribune Media employees.
In the next week or so, we’ll be mailing more detailed information to your home about the:
· Terms and provisions of the new 401(k) plans,
· Process that employees will need to follow as we transition to them, and,
· Answers to commonly asked questions.
· Terms and provisions of the new 401(k) plans,
· Process that employees will need to follow as we transition to them, and,
· Answers to commonly asked questions.
This information has been tailored to your specific situation, depending on the retirement plan(s) in which you currently participate, the plan(s) you are transitioning to, and the business unit in which you work (i.e., broadcasting, publishing, digital, or corporate office).
Please be sure to look for this important communication coming in your mail at home soon.
Thank you,
Melanie
Eddy Hartenstein on the LATimes.com Replate
From: Hartenstein, Eddy
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 9:22 AM
To: AllLosAngelesTimesEmployees
Subject: Announcing the New latimes.com
All –
Over the past year, a team of our colleagues from various departments has taken a critical look at how we’ve previously presented our journalism and advertising digitally. We completely rethought how design and technology affect the consumption of news, information and images throughout the day. We took into account the inner-workings of a 21st century newsroom, how stories break and build, and how to best engage contemporary audiences. We evaluated current marketing trends to enable advertisers to better reach our broad readership, as well as target niche areas of interest. And we thought a lot about sparking conversations.
The result is the new latimes.com, one of the largest fully responsive news sites ever built. It is a rich, dynamic showcase for our storytelling and an exceptional platform for our advertisers.
We’ll be meeting shortly for a sneak preview before tomorrow’s launch. These are some of the highlights you can expect from our new site:
• Conceived as mobile-first and built to adapt to future distribution models.
• Responsive design ensures a consistent, optimal reading experience across devices and desktops, be it mobile mornings, desktop days or lean-back evenings.
• Visually striking, bold design that highlights our marquee journalism, eliminates clutter and puts focus on our unique voices.
• Photo-centric browsing option that anchors latimes.com and is accessible on all section fronts.
• Recognizes how readers search for news by treating article pages as entry points as valuable as the homepage.
• In-line and in-context video, photo galleries, story collections and slide-out panels that enhance our storytelling abilities and reader experience.
• Endless scrolling and multi-directional navigation that eradicates print-centric and antiquated web concepts, such as “the fold,” “the jump,” “endless clicking” and “the dead end.”
• Seamless pathing from one piece of content to the next, with section fronts and article pages anchored by a row of thumbnails that automatically transport readers to related coverage or other sections.
• Multiple quick-review and micro-sharing options, including at-a-glance “sharelines,” pull quotes and photos.
• New local feature pulling in neighborhood-level geocoded news and dining information, as well as crime data…with more to come.
• Expanded sales opportunities driven by increases in traffic and engagement, greater video pre-roll inventory, and new, responsive ad units.
• Disruption of the traditional page grid, which helps advertisers break through by solving for “right-rail blindness.”
• A new fully responsive, large-format ad unit offering advertisers and marketers an execution as technologically advanced and visually arresting as the rest of the new site.
• Browsing features that incorporate native advertising and sponsored content.
This is a very exciting moment in our digital evolution and this new platform architecture paves the way for all Tribune Publishing news sites. My deepest thanks and congratulations to all who have contributed to this massive undertaking.
See you at 11,
eddy
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 9:22 AM
To: AllLosAngelesTimesEmployees
Subject: Announcing the New latimes.com
All –
Over the past year, a team of our colleagues from various departments has taken a critical look at how we’ve previously presented our journalism and advertising digitally. We completely rethought how design and technology affect the consumption of news, information and images throughout the day. We took into account the inner-workings of a 21st century newsroom, how stories break and build, and how to best engage contemporary audiences. We evaluated current marketing trends to enable advertisers to better reach our broad readership, as well as target niche areas of interest. And we thought a lot about sparking conversations.
The result is the new latimes.com, one of the largest fully responsive news sites ever built. It is a rich, dynamic showcase for our storytelling and an exceptional platform for our advertisers.
We’ll be meeting shortly for a sneak preview before tomorrow’s launch. These are some of the highlights you can expect from our new site:
• Conceived as mobile-first and built to adapt to future distribution models.
• Responsive design ensures a consistent, optimal reading experience across devices and desktops, be it mobile mornings, desktop days or lean-back evenings.
• Visually striking, bold design that highlights our marquee journalism, eliminates clutter and puts focus on our unique voices.
• Photo-centric browsing option that anchors latimes.com and is accessible on all section fronts.
• Recognizes how readers search for news by treating article pages as entry points as valuable as the homepage.
• In-line and in-context video, photo galleries, story collections and slide-out panels that enhance our storytelling abilities and reader experience.
• Endless scrolling and multi-directional navigation that eradicates print-centric and antiquated web concepts, such as “the fold,” “the jump,” “endless clicking” and “the dead end.”
• Seamless pathing from one piece of content to the next, with section fronts and article pages anchored by a row of thumbnails that automatically transport readers to related coverage or other sections.
• Multiple quick-review and micro-sharing options, including at-a-glance “sharelines,” pull quotes and photos.
• New local feature pulling in neighborhood-level geocoded news and dining information, as well as crime data…with more to come.
• Expanded sales opportunities driven by increases in traffic and engagement, greater video pre-roll inventory, and new, responsive ad units.
• Disruption of the traditional page grid, which helps advertisers break through by solving for “right-rail blindness.”
• A new fully responsive, large-format ad unit offering advertisers and marketers an execution as technologically advanced and visually arresting as the rest of the new site.
• Browsing features that incorporate native advertising and sponsored content.
This is a very exciting moment in our digital evolution and this new platform architecture paves the way for all Tribune Publishing news sites. My deepest thanks and congratulations to all who have contributed to this massive undertaking.
See you at 11,
eddy
SOURCE: Kevin Roderick
Today in Labor History
May 06 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) established at a cost of $4.8 billion—more than $72 billion in 2011 dollars—to provide work opportunities for millions during the Great Depression - 1935
Four hundred black women working as tobacco stemmers walk off the job in a spontaneous revolt against poor working conditions and a $3 weekly wage at the Vaughan Co. in Richmond, Va. - 1937
May 07
The Knights of St. Crispin union is formed at a secret meeting in Milwaukee. It grew to 50,000 members before being crushed by employers later that year - 1867
Two die, 20 are injured in “Bloody Tuesday” as strikebreakers attempt to run San Francisco streetcars during a strike by operators. The strike was declared lost in 1908 after many more deaths, including several in scab-operated streetcar accidents - 1907
Philadelphia’s longest transit strike ends after 44 days. A key issue in the fight was the hiring and use of part-timers - 1977
Monday, May 05, 2014
Charlie Packard Rest in Peace - Pressman Los Angeles Times
Heard the sad news a few hours ago that Charlie Packard passed away today, after returning to work last night from sick leave. Charlie was but 53 years old and leaves behind his wife and children. The photos below are from the Chatsworth Production Facility with Charlie and his colleagues.
Monday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
The union hall on Stanford Ave., Los Angeles was once a church, built in 1906
Digital circulation figures are an absolute mess - Poynter
Tribune Co.'s L.A. Times site goes mobile-first - Crain's
Nothing funny about Sun-Times rerunning comics - Robert Feder
Top 10 U.S. Newspapers Ranked by Digital Circulation - Mashable
Survey: Most say journalism is headed in the wrong direction - Romenesko
Subscriptions and ad revenues are up at the 'Advocate.' - My New Orleans
The Bottom Falls Out of Papa Doug's Publishing Platform - San Diego Free Press
Canadian newspapers invest in Manugraph presses - Newspapers and Technology
Mixed-Use Campus Planned at Former LA Times Printing Plant - Building Los Angeles
Today in Labor History
May 05 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
National Typographical Union founded, Cincinnati, Ohio. It was renamed the Int’l Typographical Union in 1869, in acknowledgment of Canadian members. When the ITU merged into CWA in 1986 it was the oldest existing union in the U.S. - 1852
On Chicago’s West Side, police attack Jewish workers as they try to march into the Loop to protest slum conditions - 1886
Some 14,000 building trades workers and laborers, demanding an 8-hour work day, gather at the Milwaukee Iron Co. rolling mill in Bay View, Wisc. When they approach the mill they are fired on by 250 National Guardsmen under orders from the governor to shoot to kill. Seven die, including 13-year-old boy - 1886(Apparently Republican Gov. Scott Walker wasn’t the first viciously anti-worker governor in Wisconsin. InUprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street, author John Nichols recounts the gripping story of the more than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies who descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin in 2011 after Scott Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. The dramatic struggle elicited extensive national media coverage and debate, as well as enormous grassroots support for protestors, and paved the path for the Occupy Wall Street movement.)
Nineteen machinists working for the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad gather in a locomotive pit to decide what to do about a wage cut. They vote to form a union, which later became the Int’l Association of Machinists - 1888
Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested in Boston for murder and payroll robbery. Eventually they are executed for a crime most believe they did not commit - 1920
Heavily armed deputies and other mine owner hirelings attack striking miners in Harlan County, Ky., starting the Battle of Harlan County - 1931
John J. Sweeney, president of the Service Employees Int’l Union from 1980 to 1995, then president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009, born in the Bronx, N.Y. - 1934
Lumber strike begins in Pacific Northwest, will involve 40,000 workers by the time victory is achieved after 13 weeks: union recognition, a 50¢-per-hour minimum wage and an 8-hour day - 1937
The U.S. unemployment rate drops to a 30-year low of 3.9 percent; the rate for blacks and Hispanics is the lowest ever since the government started tracking such data - 2000
Saturday, May 03, 2014
George Fortiville Rest in Peace - Former Press Room Supervisor LA Times
George Fortiville on left with his son Richard, also a former pressman at the LA Times
From Emmett Jaime:
I received a phone call from Courtney Reich, Pfaffinger Foundation on May 2nd informing me that George Fortiville had passed away on April 27th. George had suffered some mini strokes around Christmas and later in the year suffered some more.
May he rest in peace.
The following are the services to be held for George;
Calvery Chapel of Costa Mesa
3800 S. Fairview Dr.
Corner of Fairview Dr. & Sunflower
May 24th @ 2:0pm
Condolences can be sent c/o
Betty Forteville and Family
Saturday Morning in the Blogosphere
Words Coined by Journalists Turn to Gold - Bill Lucey
Cincinnati Enquirer makes another round of layoffs - BizJournals
‘The New York Times Is Not Going to Turn into BuzzFeed’ - Politico
NABJ names Stephen Henderson 2014 Journalist of the Year - Poynter
Changed Life of the Poor: Better Off, but Far Behind - New York Times
Fans check columnist: Hockey's not fair game in race debate - Sandy Banks
U.S. journalists say they are less satisfied and have less autonomy - IU Bloomington
Newspaper Company: Our customer is the advertiser, NOT the reader - Romenesko
Nieman Foundation announces the 77th class of Nieman Fellows - Nieman Foundation
Chicago Tribune circulation up 6% as digital gains help offset print decline - Chicago Tribune
Today in Labor History
May 03 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Four striking workers are killed, at least 200 wounded, when police attack a demonstration on Chicago’s south side at the McCormick Harvesting Machine plant. The Haymarket Massacre is to take place the following day 
- 1886
- 1886(Attacks against strikers and the very existence of organized labor persist to this day. From Blackjacks to Briefcases is the first book to document the systematic and extensive use by American corporations of professional unionbusters, an ugly profession that surfaced after the Civil War and has grown bolder and more sophisticated with the passage of time.)
Eugene V. Debs and other leaders of the American Railway Union are jailed for six months for contempt of court in connection with Pullman railroad car strike - 1895
Pete Seeger, folksinger and union activist, born in Patterson, N.Y. Among his songs: “If I Had A Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” - 1919
May 02
Chicago's first Trades Assembly, formed three years earlier, sponsors a general strike by thousands of workers to enforce the state's new 8-hour-day law. The one-week strike was unsuccessful - 1867
Birth of Richard Trevellick, a ship carpenter, founder of American National Labor Union and later head of the National Labor Congress, America’s first national labor organization - 1830
First Workers’ Compensation law in U.S. enacted, in Wisconsin - 1911
President Herbert Hoover declares that the stock market crash six months earlier was just a "temporary setback" and the economy would soon bounce back. In fact, the Great Depression was to continue and worsen for several more years - 1930
Nazi forces occupy the headquarters, seize the funds, and imprison the leaders of two of Germany’s largest trade union federations, comprised of 41 unions representing about 4.5 million workers. Independent trade unions were abolished – 1933
A fire at the Sunshine silver mine in Kellogg, Idaho, caused the death of 91 workers who died from carbon monoxide poisoning, likely caused by toxic fumes emitted by burning polyurethane foam, used as a fire retardant - 1972
A fire at the Sunshine silver mine in Kellogg, Idaho, caused the death of 91 workers who died from carbon monoxide poisoning, likely caused by toxic fumes emitted by burning polyurethane foam, used as a fire retardant - 1972
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Los Angeles Times - Stop your war on workers
The new Teamster.org is a refined and unique website with a clear vision and modern technology. It takes advantage of modern functionality and unique digital features. It is the first union website built completely using responsive design to work on mobile phones, tablets and desktops. Also, it's rumored to have a Hemi...
Today in Labor History
May 01 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones born in County Cork, Ireland - 1830
Cigar makers in Cincinnati warn there could be a strike in the fall if factory owners continue to insist that they pay 30¢ per month for gas heat provided at work during mornings and evenings - 1883
Eight-hour day demonstration in Chicago and other cities begins tradition of May Day as international labor holiday - 1886
The Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union strikes in San Francisco, demanding one day of rest per week, a 10-hour work day and a union shop for all restaurants in the city - 1901
The Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union strikes in San Francisco, demanding one day of rest per week, a 10-hour work day and a union shop for all restaurants in the city - 1901
Mother Jones’ 100th birthday celebrated at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Md. She died six months later - 1930
(Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings: Admirers and students of Mother Jones will want this comprehensive collection of her speeches, letters, articles, interviews and testimony before Congressional committees. In her own words, this brave and determined heroine to millions of workers, active from the end of the Civil War until shortly before her death in 1930, explains her life, her mission, her passion on behalf of working people.)
New York City’s Empire State Building officially opens. Construction involved 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, and hundreds of Mohawk iron workers. Five workers died during construction - 1931
Congress enacts amendments to the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, extending protections to the employees of state and local governments—protections which didn’t take effect until 1985 because of court challenges and regulation-writing problems - 1974
The federal minimum wage rises to $2 per hour - 1974
Int’l Molders & Allied Workers Union merges with Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers Int’l Union - 1988
Woodworkers of America Int’l merges with Int’l Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers - 1994
Int’l Leather Goods, Plastics & Novelty Workers Union merges with Service Employees Int’l Union - 1996
Rallies in cities across the U.S. for what organizers call “A Day Without Immigrants.” An estimated 100,000 immigrants and sympathizers gathered in San Jose, Calif., 200,000 in New York, 400,000 each in Chicago and Los Angeles. In all, there were demonstrations in at least 50 cities - 2006
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