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News Article | June 30, 2016
With Help from Women’s Movement, Canadian Postal Workers Score Big Win for Families
A little solidarity can go a long way. Thirty-five years ago, Canadian postal workers launched a 42-day strike for paid maternity leave – and won. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) was the first federal union in Canada to win 17 weeks of paid maternity leave – and they did it by building a...
News Article | April 30, 2016
The U.S. Post Office: The Workers’ Savings Bank
The first depositors at the New York Postal Savings Bank. Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away land, working people were able to safely deposit and withdraw their hard-earned dollars, with no excessive fees or fuss. Everyone had access to safe savings accounts, regardless of how much money they ma...
News Article | April 30, 2016
The U.S. Post Office: The Workers’ Savings Bank
The first depositors at the New York Postal Savings Bank. Once upon a time, in a not-so-far-away land, working people were able to safely deposit and withdraw their hard-earned dollars, with no excessive fees or fuss. Everyone had access to safe savings accounts, regardless of how much money they ma...
News Article | February 29, 2016
Women Workers Defy Their Boss and Win a Union
New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, right foreground, walks a picket line supporting striking Farah workers in Houston on Feb. 10, 1973. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Factory boss Willie Farah said he’d rather be dead than see hi...
News Article | February 29, 2016
Women Workers Defy Their Boss and Win a Union
New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, right foreground, walks a picket line supporting striking Farah workers in Houston on Feb. 10, 1973. (This article first appeared in the March-April 2016 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Factory boss Willie Farah said he’d rather be dead than see hi...
News Article | December 31, 2015
Paul Robeson: Internationally Acclaimed Performer, Champion of the People
Robeson signs autographs after a 1924 concert for naval workers. Photo courtesy of Robeson Family Trust and Marilyn Robeson (This article first appeared in the January-February issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Paul Robeson was an internationally acclaimed singer and actor, an outstandi...
News Article | October 31, 2015
A Century Later, Labor’s Legendary Troubadour Lives On
Joe Hill (This article first appeared in the November/December 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) One hundred years have passed since a firing squad at the Utah State Penitentiary executed Joe Hill at sunrise on Nov. 19, 1915. The renowned labor organizer had been framed on a murde...
News Article | August 31, 2015
‘Big Bill’ Haywood: The ‘Wobbly’ Giant
“Big Bill” Haywood was a big man with a big heart and a big dream – to build one big union for workers from every industry. He could break a man’s jaw with a single blow, but he wept openly when a poem moved him. “Big Bill” was born William Dudley Haywood on Feb. 4, 1869, in Salt Lake City. He lear...
News Article | April 30, 2015
May Day: Fighting for the Eight-Hour Day
Chicago in the 1880s was a hotbed of labor organizing. Fed up with the status quo, where industrial workers toiled long hours in squalid conditions, the International Working People’s Association formed in 1883 and dedicated its resources to establishing an eight-hour work day. Led by Albert Parsons...
News Article | February 28, 2015
From ‘Collective Begging’ Collective Bargaining
March 2015 marks the 45th anniversary of the Great Postal Strike of 1970. The courage and solidarity shown by thousands of union members during the wildcat job action resulted in vastly improved wages and benefits.
News Article | February 28, 2015
Rose Schneiderman Organizes Garment Workers in New York
Rose Schneiderman was a trailblazer for workers’ rights in the Lower East Side of New York City at the turn of the 20th Century. She organized and co-founded several unions, was a friend and advisor to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and was a champion for rights still being fought for today. Twenty-y...
News Article | December 31, 2014
A Look Back: The Charleston Five
Soon after dockworkers formed a picket line at the Port of Charleston, SC, in January 2000, five among them became the focus of worldwide protests and international solidarity – symbols of the fight for justice. And after a 22-month battle, a groundbreaking victory over worker repression and racial...
News Article | September 30, 2014
The ‘Strike for Better Schools’
Almost 70 years after a strike by St. Paul teachers, their battle holds lessons for today’s postal workers and other public employees: The educators didn’t strike only on their own behalf – they walked a picket line for better schools. In 1946, the idea of a teachers’ strike was revolutionary. But i...
News Article | August 31, 2014
The Real Norma Rae
Early On May 30, 1973, the J.P. Stevens textile mill in Roanoke Rapids, NC, fired 32-year-old Crystal Lee Sutton. Before Sutton left the plant, she climbed atop a table on the shop floor and raised above her head a piece of cardboard with the word “UNION” scrawled on it, turning slowly in a circle s...
News Article | June 30, 2014
War on the Waterfront
Early in the morning on July 5, 1934, storefront owners in the Mission District of San Francisco were opening their doors. In the financial district, bankers and businessmen were trading stocks. Across the harbor, the Oakland Bay Bridge construction crew was hard at work. The police stood watch as 5...