Today in 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers, members of AFSCME Local 1733, in Memphis, Tenn. Violence during the march persuades him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated. ~ Labor Tribune
• How American is that American product?
• Lives at stake if TPP means meds prices rise.
• Fair Food Program expands to Giant.
• Union elections sped up under new labor rule.
• DOL decision could mean the end of wage theft...
• ATA says long-term outlook for trucking in the US is rosy.
• Workers at Google Express seek to organize with Teamsters.
• Silicon Valley shuttle drivers vote Aug. 1 on first-contract proposal.
• Maryland crabs should be 'Virginia crabs'? As if.
• Family events in August in and around Baltimore.
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - Apr. 7 @ 10 a.m. Salisbury - Apr. 21 @10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!