Truckers To Strike In NYC On May Day and Rally Off New Jersey Turnpike In Mass Action Against Fuel Prices
We have received a report – not verified – that truckers in New Jersey are taking a mass action in…
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West Coast Ports Shut Down
The 8-to-5 action affects 29 facilities from Seattle to San Diego. By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer /…
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Today – May Day: Longshoremen To Strike Entire West Coast As Antiwar Protest
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Click on the image to see a larger version Dockworkers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to…
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Striking Longshore Union Has History of Political Protest
By Peter Cole- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 29, 2008 On Thursday, May Day, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union will declare…
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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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West Coast Dock-Workers Shut Down 29 Ports
“There is no one here, the streets are dead,” says Oakland, CA trucker OAKLAND, CA. An initial ABC KGO NEWS…
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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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