Today in 1928 William “Big Bill” Haywood – founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and an advocate of industrial unionism – dies in the Soviet Union where he had fled after having been found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage Act of 1917.
• Order free at-home Covid-19 tests here • Republic Services Teamsters approve TA, end strike • Union battle vs. corporate power isn’t a fair fight • America’s new class war: Organized Labor is back • CEMEX drivers protest lack of respect for organizing rights • Thieves are looting freight trains filled with UPS, FedEx, Amazon pkgs • Workers got fed up. Bosses got scared. This is how the Big Quit happened. • TA reached, workers end 10-day strike against grocery chain • Maryland tax deadline extended to July 15
