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New York City Central Labor Council ( NYCCLC) is the largest local labor membership organization under the direction of the national AFL–CIO. Founded in 1959 the NYCCLC represents over 400 local New York City unions in both the public and private sectors of the New York economy. [2] Of the 11 million total workers represented by the AFL–CIO ...
Unemployed Councils activists William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, and Israel Amter at the time of their March 1930 International Unemployment Day arrests in New York City. The Unemployed Councils of the USA (UC) was a mass organization of the Communist Party, USA established in 1930 in an effort to organize and mobilize unemployed workers .
Philip Randolph—the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council, and vice president of the AFL–CIO—was a key instigator in 1941. With Bayard Rustin , Randolph called for 100,000 black workers to march on Washington, [5] in protest of discriminatory hiring during World War II by U.S ...
The American Alliance for Labor and Democracy was an American political organization established in September 1917 through the initiative of the American Federation of Labor and making use of the resources of the United States government's Committee on Public Information. The group was dedicated to building support among American workers for ...
New York: August 2–6, 1948: Endorses Henry Agard Wallace for President; Eugene Dennis indicts the Wall Street conspirators. Fifteenth: New York: December 28–30, 1950: What it means to be a Communist; On Guard against Browderism, Titoism, Trotskyism. Sixteenth: New York: February 9–12, 1957: Seventeenth: New York: December 10–13, 1959 ...
There’s still a New York City Labor Day parade today. To this day, the New York City Central Labor Council still hosts a Labor Day parade and march, which is held just north of the location of ...
The New York City Council voted on Wednesday to ban the use of solitary confinement in city jails, with sponsors of the bill arguing that the practice is cruel and leads to heightened risks of ...
The headquarters were originally supposed to be completed in 1951, with the first occupants moving into the Secretariat Building in 1950. However, in November, New York City's construction coordinator Robert Moses reported that construction was two months behind schedule. By that time, 60% of the headquarters' site had been excavated.