Aaron Favila / AP
WASHINGTON (PAI) From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26.
The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in San Francisco.
Add to those events and marches one big town hall, on May 2,
People’s World and the International Labor Communications Association.
Aaron Favila / AP
WASHINGTON (PAI) From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26.
The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in San Francisco.
Add to those events and marches one big town hall, on May 2,
People’s World and the International Labor Communications Association.
Anita Torrez sits smiling in her sunlit Tucson living room. | Al Neal / PW
People’s World has learned of the passing of Anita Torrez. A fuller story is on the way from her comrades in Arizona but for now we reprint the following article in her memory.
This article won a first place award in the Best Profile Story category at the 2020 Labor Media Awards, presented by the International Labor Communications Association.
It’s a lonely two-lane stretch of Arizona desert highway from Phoenix to Tucson. To your left and to your right greenish-brown desert brush, solitary cacti, and tan, rocky valleys and hilltops seem to dance before your eyes. A mirage.
Courtesy of John Dick
This article won Honorable Mention in the Best Feature Story category at the 2020 Labor Media Awards, presented by the International Labor Communications Association.
“Hello, everyone, are you excited to be here today?”
Forty pairs of animated eyeballs stare back at me while I introduce myself.
“My name is Mailman John and today I am going to show you how a Post Office works.”
The energy of two dozen eight-year-olds envelops the lobby where we stand. Before I can even begin my next sentence their hands begin to rise with queried excitement. These kids are bonkers about being at the Royal Oak Post Office, and so are their teachers. And like a sponge, I absorb this spontaneous combustion of childhood fossil fuel. It makes me happy. This is our annual “School Trip to the Post Office,” and I am lucky enough to be the tour guide again this year.
Fugitive Slaves, Virginia, 1862/Library of Congress
This article won Honorable Mention in the Best Analysis category at the 2020 Labor Media Awards, presented by the International Labor Communications Association.
“Enslavement was about the devil’s work of predatory capitalism.” economist Julianne Malveaux
For the first time in over a decade, on June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held its first congressional hearing on reparations. Though it’s a discussion that’s taken many forms over the years, the current talk surrounding reparations for the descendants of Black slaves needs to go beyond cash payouts and speak more to the dire need to address the ramifications of the slave trade on Black Americans.