Today in 1999 The International Longshore and Warehouse Union closed all ports on the West Coast in solidarity with a national day of protest to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist who was on death row in Pennsylvania at the time.~ Today in Labor History
• The great resignation goes global • Where are all the workers? • Songs of justice, songs of power • Jon Gruden and labor law traps • New wave of strikes will test worker power • Starbucks launches counter-offensive as workers in Buffalo seek a union • 7 facts about retirement planning and saving • What is the common thread in all the recent strikes?
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - May. 5@ 10 a.m. Salisbury - May 19 @10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!