Category Archive: Announcement
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Nov 26
Support For Walmart Workers
Dear Labor Brothers and Sisters: Wouldn’t it be amazing if working families gathered together on Black Friday and sent a message to the country’s largest employer that its workers deserve a living wage and full-time work? Well, that’s exactly what’s going to happen, and you can be a part of it. Walmart is the …
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Sep 16
Let’s Support Karen Mayne!
Let’s help someone who has done alot for us. Saturday we have an opportunity to do just that! Senator Karen Mayne will be precinct walking starting at 9:00 AM from Kennedy Jr. High School at 4495 S 4800 W in West Valley City, UT. We are encouraging you to show up on Saturday morning. Senator …
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Sep 01
Message From A.F.L. C.I.O. President Cox
This Labor Day, let’s commemorate the importance of hard work and acknowledge the role that workers play in our economy. We recognize all men and women who work — whether they are employed in the public or private sector, or considered blue or white collar. We all make America run. Even though many of …
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Aug 31
Labor Day In Utah
Labor Day is a holiday meant to honor the American worker. For more than 30 years, the group meant to support the American worker, organized labor, has lost its influence across the country. As a right-to-work state, Utah is not known for its friendliness to unions, but even so, organized labor continues to find a …
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Aug 31
Labor Day Origins
Labor Day, an annual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chapters. In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, …
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Aug 31
Labor Day Celebration
UTAH WORKERS, LABOR AND COMMUNITY LEADERS please celebrate LABOR Day !!!! WHEN: Monday – September 1 2014 Corrected times – 11:00 am – 5:00 pm WHO: Utah Workers, Labor and Community leaders WHAT: 14th Annual Utah Old Fashioned Labor Day Picnic and Car Show WHERE: Magna Park 8941 West 2600 South Magna, UT On Monday September 1st the Labor …
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Feb 25
Important Labor History
Centennial of Michigan mass deaths by Loretta Santejka “Take a trip with me to 1913, to Calumet, Michigan in the Copper Country.” So begins Woody Guthrie’s song, “1913 Massacre,” which describes a tragedy that occurred in Calumet in 1913, in the upper peninsula of Michigan. During a party in the Italian Hall that was for …
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