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     singlepushpin  Saturday – March 13
 What: Michigan Child ID Program
Time:
10am – 1:30pm
Where: Salvation Army
2300 Venoy, 
Westland
This program will put all the information needed for Amber Alerts in one place.  The only requirement
is that the family live in the state of Michigan. Children must have a parent/guardian with them during
the process.

    singlepushpin  Saturday – March 13
What:
United Way 2010 UCAN Class
Time: Registration 8:20am/Class:
9am – 3:30pm
Where: UAW Local 5960
180 East Silverbell Road
Lake Orion
Cost: $40 includes all day class sessions & graduation dinner/ceremony
Contact: 313 226-9217 for more information
 

    singlepushpin  Wednesday – March 17
What:
Metro Detroit Delegate Body meeting
Time:
5:30pm
Where: AFSCME Bldg./600
West Lafayette
3rd Floor Conference Room
Contact: 313 961-0800
         

    singlepushpin  Wednesday – March 17
Movie Night @ Metro/Norma Rae
Time:
7pm – 9:30pm
Where: AFSCME Bldg. Auditorium
600
West Lafayette
Cost:  $10 per person
Contact: 313 961-0800 

    singlepushpin  Saturday – March 20
What:
United Way 2010 UCAN Class
Time: Registration 8:20am/Class:
9am – 3:30pm
Where: Millwrights Local 1102
 
23401 Mound Road
Warren
Cost: $40 includes all day class sessions & graduation dinner/ceremony
Contact: 313 226-9217 for more information
 

     singlepushpin  Tuesday – March 24
What:
Retiree Action Committee meeting
Time:
10am
Where: DAEOE/Local 4168
115 West Willis
 

    singlepushpin  Saturday – March 27
What:
United Way 2010 UCAN Class
Time: Registration 8:20am/Class:
9am – 3:30pm
Where: UAW Region 1A
 
9650 Telegraph Road
Taylor
Cost: $40 includes all day class sessions & graduation dinner/ceremony
Contact: 313 226-9217 for more information

   singlepushpin  April 22-25
AFL-CIO State Federation,Area and Central Labor Council Conference

   singlepushpin  May 26-31,2010  
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists 39th. International Convention

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              Today in Labor History

... for the week of March 8, 2010 

March 08

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Thousands of New York needle trades workers demonstrate for higher wages, shorter workday, and end to child labor. The demonstration became the basis for International Women’s Day - 1908

New York members of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, many of them women, strike. They persevere despite beatings by police, winning a 10 percent wage increase and five-day work week - 1926

The Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act took effect on this day. It limits the ability of federal judges to issue injunctions against workers and unions involved in labor disputes - 1932

March 09
The Westmoreland County (Pa.) Coal Strike – known as the "Slovak strike" because some 70 percent of the 15,000 strikers were Slovakian immigrants – begins on this date and continues for nearly 16 months before ending in defeat. Sixteen miners and family members were killed during the strike - 1912

Work begins on the $8 billion, 800-mile-long Alaska Oil pipeline connecting oil fields in northern Alaska to the sea port at Valdez. Tens of thousands of people worked on the pipeline, enduring long hours, cold temperatures, and brutal conditions. At least 32 died on the job - 1974

March 10

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U.S. Supreme Court upholds espionage conviction of labor leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs. Debs was jailed for speaking out against World War I. Campaigning for president from his Atlanta jail cell, he won 6 percent of the vote - 1919

New York City bus drivers, members of the Transport Workers Union, go on strike. After 12 days of no buses – and a large show of force by Irish-American strikers at the St. Patrick’s Day parade – Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders arbitration - 1941

United Farm Workers leader César Chávez breaks a 24-day fast, by doctor’s order, at a mass in Delano, California’s public park. Several thousand supporters are at his side, including Sen. Robert Kennedy. Chavez called it “a fast for non-violence and a call to sacrifice” - 1968

March 11
Luddites smash 63 “labor saving” textile machines near Nottingham, England - 1811

Fabled railroad engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones born in southeast Missouri. A member of the Railroad Engineers, he was the sole fatality in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss. on April 29, 1900. His skill and heroics prevented many more deaths - 1863

Transport Workers Union members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry - 1950

March 12

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The Lawrence, Mass. "Bread and Roses" textile strike ends when the American Wollen Co. agrees to most of the strikers’ demands; other textile companies quickly followed suit - 1912

Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995, born in Camden, South Carolina - 1922

Steelworkers approve a settlement with Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. and its CF&I Steel subsidiary, ending the longest labor dispute in the USWA’s history and resulting in more than $100 million in back pay for workers - 2004 

March 13
A four-month UAW strike at General Motors ends with a new contract. The strikers were trying to make up for the lack of wage hikes during World War II - 1946 

March 14
The Movie "Salt of the Earth" opens. The classic film centers on a long and difficult strike led by Mexican-American and Anglo zinc miners in New Mexico. Real miners perform in the film, in which the miners’ wives – as they did in real life – take to the picket lines after the strikers are enjoined - 1954 

Sources:
Toil and Trouble, by Thomas R. Brooks; American Labor Struggles, by Samuel Yellen; IWW calendar, Solidarity Forever; Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor, edited by Robert E. Weir and James P. Hanlan; Southwest Labor History Archives/George Meany Center; Geov Parrish’s Radical History; workday Minnesota; Andy Richards and Adam Wright, AFL-CIO Washington DC Metro Council (graphics research).



 

The Michigan State AFL-CIO

is the state federation of labor representing over 600,000 members of 59 unions throughout Michigan.

The mission of the Michigan State AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation. To accomplish this mission, we work to:

  • Build a broad movement of Michigan workers by helping workers join and form unions.
  • Support Michigan workers as they bargain with employers to improve their living conditions and workplaces, as well as their communities, state and nation.
  • Strengthen the voice of Michigan working families at all levels of government and in a changing global economy.

The Michigan State AFL-CIO is a key part of the nation's largest and strongest labor federation—the AFL-CIO, which unites 10.5 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life.

The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and taxi drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and plumbers—and more.