Saturday, June 08, 2013
Friday, June 07, 2013
Today in Labor History
June 07 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike - 1904
Sole performance of Pageant of the Paterson (N.J.) Strike, created and performed by 1,000 mill workers from the silk industry strike, New York City - 1913
Striking textile workers battle police in Gastonia, N.C. Police Chief O.F. Aderholt is accidentally killed by one of his own officers. Six strike leaders are convicted of “conspiracy to murder” and are sentenced to jail for from five to 20 years - 1929
Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The merger brought together the Retail Clerks Int’l Union and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America - 1979
(Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground: Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the threat of job losses invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked together on a number of issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental restoration, and globalization. (Examples include the surprising solidarity of "Teamsters and Turtles" in the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, and the formal Steelworkers-Sierra Club "Blue-Green Alliance").
The United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club announce the formation of a strategic alliance to pursue a joint public policy agenda under the banner of Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World - 2006
California State Labor Law Poster (Google Affiliate Ad)
Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike - 1904
Sole performance of Pageant of the Paterson (N.J.) Strike, created and performed by 1,000 mill workers from the silk industry strike, New York City - 1913
Striking textile workers battle police in Gastonia, N.C. Police Chief O.F. Aderholt is accidentally killed by one of his own officers. Six strike leaders are convicted of “conspiracy to murder” and are sentenced to jail for from five to 20 years - 1929
Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The merger brought together the Retail Clerks Int’l Union and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America - 1979
(Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground: Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the threat of job losses invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked together on a number of issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental restoration, and globalization. (Examples include the surprising solidarity of "Teamsters and Turtles" in the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, and the formal Steelworkers-Sierra Club "Blue-Green Alliance").
The United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club announce the formation of a strategic alliance to pursue a joint public policy agenda under the banner of Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World - 2006
California State Labor Law Poster (Google Affiliate Ad)
Friday Morning in the Blogosphere
Royce Hall at UCLA
In Defense of Unions - Frying Pan News
At US school newspapers, the ink is drying up - Hindustan Times
Koch Industries responds to 'hate-filled' newspaper protests - Crain's
Readers will have to pay for news says former editor - Hold the Front Page
UK magazine snags Chinese readers with dual-language issue - Editors Weblog
Koch Brothers: "Protests Against Buying the L.A. Times Bore Us" - LA Weekly
What Sun-Times tells readers who cancel subscription over layoffs - Romenesko
The FCC should repeal its newspaper-broadcast ownership rule - Washington Post
Chart of the Week: Newspaper circulation around the world - Pew Research Center
Senators Join California Labor to Call for Enterprise Zone Reform - CA Labor Fed.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Today in Labor History
June 06 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
The U.S. Employment Service was created - 1933
A
general strike by some 12,000 autoworkers and others in Lansing, Mich.,
shuts down the city for a month in what was to become known as the
city’s “Labor Holiday.” The strike was precipitated by the arrest of
nine workers, including the wife of the auto workers local union
president: The arrest left three children in the couple’s home
unattended - 1937
U.S. President Harry S. Truman and American Federation of Musicians President James Petrillo perform a piano duet at the union’s convention in Asbury Park, N.J. - 1948
Labor Party founding convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio - 1996
U.S. President Harry S Truman and American Federation of Musicians President James Petrillo perform a piano duet at the union’s convention in Asbury Park, NJ. – 1948~De
The U.S. Employment Service was created - 1933
A
general strike by some 12,000 autoworkers and others in Lansing, Mich.,
shuts down the city for a month in what was to become known as the
city’s “Labor Holiday.” The strike was precipitated by the arrest of
nine workers, including the wife of the auto workers local union
president: The arrest left three children in the couple’s home
unattended - 1937U.S. President Harry S. Truman and American Federation of Musicians President James Petrillo perform a piano duet at the union’s convention in Asbury Park, N.J. - 1948
Labor Party founding convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio - 1996
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
U.S. President Harry S Truman and American Federation of Musicians President James Petrillo perform a piano duet at the union’s convention in Asbury Park, NJ. – 1948~De
Thursday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
5th and Spring Streets downtown Los Angeles
Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe - Wired
Charles Koch confirms interest in newspapers - Romenesko
Sun-Times reporters will learn photography basics - Poynter
Newspaper Revenue Declines Seen Through 2017 - Ad Age
USAT | And we'll do it with 10% fewer employees - Gannett Blog
The Orange County Register Goes Back to Its Roots - Fishbowl LA
Google is World’s Largest Media Company - Newspaper Death Watch
What's On Your Reading List? Journalists Reveal Theirs - Newspaper Alum
Walmart’s War Against Unions, and the Laws That Make It Possible - Frying Pan
Monday, June 03, 2013
Today in Labor History
June 03 -- Union Communications Services, Inc.
Int’l Ladies Garment Workers Union founded - 1900
A federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, was declared unconstitutional - 1918
(Kids at work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often life-threatening work, and the accompanying commentary by author Russell Freedman. Photographer Lewis Hine – who himself died in poverty in 1940 – did as much, and perhaps more, than any social critic in the early part of the 20th century to expose the abuse of children, as young as three and four, by American capitalism.)
Some 25,000 white autoworkers walk off the job at Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit when three African-Americans are promoted to the assembly line, where they will be working next to whites. The three were relocated and the walkout ended - 1943
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
(Kids at work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor: Your heart will be broken by this exceptional book’s photographs of children at backbreaking, often life-threatening work, and the accompanying commentary by author Russell Freedman. Photographer Lewis Hine – who himself died in poverty in 1940 – did as much, and perhaps more, than any social critic in the early part of the 20th century to expose the abuse of children, as young as three and four, by American capitalism.)
Some 25,000 white autoworkers walk off the job at Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit when three African-Americans are promoted to the assembly line, where they will be working next to whites. The three were relocated and the walkout ended - 1943
Working Class Heroes -- via -- www.unionist.com
International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded – 1900 ~De
The ILGWU was formed on June 3, 1900, by eleven delegates representing local unions from the major garment centers in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Newark. These local unions' memberships numbered about two thousand workers and were comprised primarily of Jewish immigrants, many of them socialist, who had recently arrived in the United States from Eastern Europe. Many had been active trade unionists before coming to America, and in some instances, had participated in or organized unions upon arrival.
Seven local unions were represented at the International's founding meeting, and their delegates agreed that the efforts to improve working conditions within their cities would benefit from a national organization of workers in the ladies' garment trade. They agreed to name the new organization the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and that it would affiliate with the American Federation of Labor.
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The ILGWU was an important force in organized labor. However, it faced serious challenges in expanding and even maintaining membership numbers and union funds, in part because of many manufacturers' hostile attitudes.
The ILGWU was an important force in organized labor. However, it faced serious challenges in expanding and even maintaining membership numbers and union funds, in part because of many manufacturers' hostile attitudes.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Saturday, June 01, 2013
Music Events for Saturday June 1st, 2013
The City of Pasadena is hosting Make Music Pasadena from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm today, and the cost, FREE. With forty-one different stages there is music for all tastes.
The Slidebar in Fullerton will be offering a free concert by Alice in Cooperland at 4:00 pm, all ages welcome.
Journey Revisited will be rockin in San Bernardino at 7:00 pm at the National Orange Show, all ages welcome for a small cost of $5.00.
The Slidebar in Fullerton will be offering a free concert by Alice in Cooperland at 4:00 pm, all ages welcome.
Journey Revisited will be rockin in San Bernardino at 7:00 pm at the National Orange Show, all ages welcome for a small cost of $5.00.
Journey Revisited playing Victorville last night.
Photo Credit: Reese Entertainment
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