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August 22, 2026

Today in 1919
In defiance of the Police Commissioner’s issuance of an order barring officers from being in a union, 800 Boston police officers meet to install the officers of their newly-formed local. After the Commissioner began firing union leaders, police officers voted 1,134 to 2 to strike and on September 9, most of the Boston police department walked off the job.

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The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Posted On: May 05, 2025
May 5, 2025 | ORGANIZING | If democracy in the United States is to be preserved and extended, then we need to honor those whose efforts are indispensable to building the one institution that truly stands as a bulwark against economic powerlessness and political defeat: the labor union. Labor organizers are essential to the growth of the union movement, but even more importantly, they demonstrate something at the heart of working-class life — how ideas and determination can be transformed into collective power, essential for the advancement of democracy itself, in the workplace and society at large. In These Times
 
 
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