Labor's Voice for Change (48) - June 30, 2009 15 Seats on AFL-CIO Executive Council Are Available to Women and Minorities
15 Seats on AFL-CIO Executive Council Are Available to Women and Minorities
At least 15 union members, who are either women or “people of color” will be an exclusive group among the 43 candidates who will be elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council at the Federation’s quadrennial convention on September 14-17 in Pittsburgh. Read the the rest of this column.
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World of Labor - June 27, 2009
Trade Unions Join Resistance in Iran Hamburg Stevedore to Cut Work Hours for 2,000 Greek Air Controllers Strike over Safety Issue Swedish Furniture Retailer Dumps 5,000, but Expects Sales Record World Leaders to Visit Mexico to Discuss Violation of Union Rights Top Japanese Labor Leader Sees Widening Gap between Rich and Poor South Korean Auto Union Rejects Company’s Final Offer Read these stories in World of Labor
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LaborTalk - February 26, 2009 Change-to-Win Is a Failure After 4 Years; UNITE-HERE Split Adds New Questions
Change-to-Win Is a Failure After 4 Years; UNITE-HERE Split Adds New Questions
Change-to-Win, whose seven international unions broke away from the AFL-CIO nearly four years ago to form a rival labor federation, has failed in its mission to build a bigger and stronger labor movement. Once compared by pundits as a possible replica of the historic CIO of the 1930s, CtW, almost from the beginning, failed to live up to the promise of its press releases. Read these stories in LaborTalk
'My Seventy Years
in the
Labor Movement'
10 Highlights of Harry Kelber's Unique Career
1. During the Great Depression, Harry led a four-month strike at a major food market in Brooklyn, N.Y, that ended with a good union contract.
2. At age 25, Harry was editor of two independent weekly labor newspapers that covered CIO organizing campaigns, as well as the activities of teamster and construction unions.
3. At age 50, Harry earned a B.A. from Brooklyn College and an M.A. and PhD. from New York University - all within 5-1/2 years.
4. In the 1962-63 printers' strike that shut down New York City's daily newspapers for 114 days, Harry was editor of the Daily Strike Bulletin.
5. As the legislative director of the Physicians Forum, Harry played a key role in winning social security for the nation's doctors.
6. In 1968, Harry created and became the first director of Cornell University's Two-Year Labor/Liberal Arts Program.
7. In recognition of his distinguished teaching career, Empire State College created the Dr. Harry Kelber Endowment in Labor Studies.
8. At age 70, Harry became the Educational and Cultural Director of Electrical Workers Local 3, I.B.E.W., a position he held for nearly six years.
9. In 1992, Harry led a week-long seminar in Moscow for 145 labor leaders of the former Soviet Union on the theme, "Democratic Unions in a Market Economy."
10. In 1995, at age 81, Harry ran for a vice president seat on the AFL-CIO Executive Council to force the first election ever, in which a rank-and-filer challenged incumbent officers.
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Daily News, "Spotlight on Great People: His [Harry Kelber] 70-year battle for the rights of workers," by Clem Richardon, October 10, 2008 Read the article on Harry Kelber
Harry Kelber's poetic commentary on "CEO Lust," delivered at Labor Notes conference May 2006. You can see and hear Harry reciting his poem by clicking below.You can read Harry's poem by clicking here.