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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 .
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 ...
Vladeck was able to make use of personal connections to convince the New York Central Labor Council (CLC) and the Tamiment Institute, still headed by Ben Josephson, to co-sponsor the creation of the new labor archive. In 1977, New York University was brought on board and together the three entities established the new labor archive, named after ...
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 ...
About 4,000 Jews, from nonreligious to Orthodox, show up to the temple’s High Holy Day services, historically held in New York’s Jacob Javits Convention Center on the West Side of Manhattan.
Brian M. McLaughlin is a former American Democratic politician and labor leader from Flushing, Queens . McLaughlin was a New York Assemblyman elected in 1992 to represent the 25th district in New York City. He was also elected, in June 1995, as the President of the Council on New York Labor. McLaughlin was arrested October 17, 2006, on charges ...
Since its founding in 1971, BCRW has promoted women's and social justice issues to its local communities at Barnard College and within New York City. It is a member organization of The National Council for Research on Women.
Peter J. Brennan. Peter Joseph Brennan (May 24, 1918 – October 2, 1996) was an American labor activist and politician who served as United States Secretary of Labor from February 2, 1973, until March 15, 1975, in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. Brennan had previously been the president of both the Building and Construction ...