Bay Area Longshore Union Workers to March & Rally Today – May Day
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. Hundreds of Bay Area dockworkers plan to march this morning after their stop-work meeting. The union members…
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Iraqi Dock Workers Strike In Solidarity With US West Coast May Day Strike
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BREAKING NEWS: Members of the Port Workers Union of Iraq plan to shutdown the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor…
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May Day Is Our Workers’ Day in America
May Day was officially founded in 1886, during a Chicago strike for the eight-hour workday. In 1889, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) delegate to the International Labor Congress in Paris proposed May 1 as international Labor Day. Workers were to march for an eight-hour day, democracy and the right of workers to organize. Delegates approved the request and chose May 1, 1890, as a day of demonstrations in favor of the eight-hour day.
On a separate track, U.S. labor leaders had agitated for creation of a labor holiday years before the Chicago rally. Among them, Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter and labor union leader, had proposed his idea for a holiday honoring America’s workers at a New York labor meeting in early 1882. (Others say the “founder” of Labor Day was Matthew Maguire, a machinist who served as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York.)”
History of May Day Bound Up In the 8-Hour Work Day Movement and the Martyrs of the “Haymarket Massacre”
The story of the Haymarket Martyrs, and their monument in Forest Home Cemetery, begins at a convention of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1884. The Federation (the predecessor to the American Federation of Labor) called for a great movement to win the 8-hour workday, which would climax on May 1, 1886.
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A Litany of Horrors – America’s University of Imperialism
Book Review of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella By…
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1,000 Vets a Month Attempt Suicide
An email intercepted by CBS News shows that the VA’s head of Mental Health has knowingly lied to the public,…
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U.S. Weighing Readiness for Military Action Against Iran
By Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post Staff Writer / Saturday, April 26, 2008 The nation’s top military officer said…
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Steve Francis meets with medical cannabis group
by Marc On Wednesday night Steve and Gayle Francis took time out of their busy schedule to speak with members…
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The Great Peace Movement Debate
Since late 2007, the OB Rag has sponsored a seasoned and reasoned debate about the current state and future direction…
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A Constitutional Conundrum
News: The House Judiciary Committee has taken its contempt of Congress fight to civil court, setting the stage for a…
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The Real Matrix: The Pentagon Invades Your Life
By Nick Turse Rick is a midlevel manager in a financial services company in New York City. Each day he…
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Historians Rate Bush’s Presidency As “the worst ever”
61% of Historians Rate Bush As the Worst President In American History In early April, the same week a Pew…
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2,000 Students Protest Budget Cuts In Sacramento
More than 2,000 students from all three segments of the state’s higher education system – CSU, UC and community colleges…
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