All Posts Tagged With: "AFL-CIO"

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Book Review: Randi Storch. Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35.

Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Ashley Weger
“It was not the economics of Communism, nor the great power of trade unions, nor the excitement of underground politics that claimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of workers in other lands, by the possibility of uniting scattered but kindred peoples into a whole.”
— Richard [...]

October 10th, 2009 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued
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Labor struggles today: A report on a recent civil disobedience action in Chicago

Laurie Rojas
ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2009, approximately 900 Chicagoans rallied on the sidewalks in front of the Park Hyatt Hotel near the Magnificent Mile. At the height of rush hour, about 200 members and community allies of UNITE HERE Local 1, Chicago’s hospitality workers’ union, arrived at the scene and blocked all four lanes of Chicago [...]

October 10th, 2009 | PR web editor | 0 comments | Continued