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March 28, 2024

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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

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Pres. Obama Must Act Boldly to Protect Workers' Rights
Updated On: Feb 11, 2013
Feb. 11, 2013 | The president will rightly go down in history for preventing the country plunging into a second great depression, overhauling an unjust and inefficient healthcare system, and enacting regulations to avoid a recurrence of the worst Wall Street abuses. He may win comprehensive immigration reform, limited gun control measures and climate change legislation. But unless he acts boldly on workers' rights, he risks going down in history as the Democratic president who stood by while conservatives dealt a deathblow to the American labor movement. Overcoming GOP obstructionism will not be easy, but there's much that the president can do. Read the full story at The Hill.
 
 
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