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AFGE launches new local to cover federal employees in Europe

More than 10,000 federal employees working for U.S. agencies in Europe now have a union local to represent them. AFGEhttps://www.afge.org/publication/afge-launching-new-local-to-cover-federal-employees-in-europe/ announced the new at-large chapter - Local 14 - last Thursday; The new local was formed under AFGE District 14, which already represents small pockets of federal employees working in Europe. Most federal employees working in Europe are unrepresented, and this new local allows AFGE to extend service to those employees. "It's been a long time coming," said AFGE District 14 National Vice President Ottis Johnson Jr. "This is what the federal employees have been looking for and we are pleased to finally be able to restore some of the workers' rights protections for our Brothers and Sisters in Europe."[link removed] Read more here.


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Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike. Last week's show: [link removed] Erasing Virginia's labor history.


20,000 textile mill strikers in Paterson, NJ gather on the green in front of the house of Pietro Botto, the socialist mayor of nearby Haledon, to receive encouragement by novelist Upton Sinclair, journalist John Reed and speakers from the Wobblies. Today, the Botto House is home to the American Labor Museum - 1913

UAW Local 833 strikes the Kohler bathroom fixtures company in Kohler, Wisc. The strike ends six years later after Kohler is found guilty of refusing to bargain, agrees to reinstate 1,400 strikers and pay them $4.5 million in back pay and pension credits - 1954

Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis to stand with striking AFSCME sanitation workers. This evening, he delivers his famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in a church packed with union members and others. He is assassinated the following day - 1968

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