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.
• Teamsters restructure Freight Division • Target workers are joining the union wave • What’s your rate of inflation? • Emboldened labor movement seeks to expand on successes • The new labor movement is young, worker-led, and winning • Letter carriers union conducts annual food drive, Stamp Out Hunger May 14 • UPS surpasses Fedex for top spot of world’s largest transportation companies • Labor board says Starbucks unlawfully fired 7 for union efforts. • Inflation explained: The real reason prices are going up –
