Today in labor history. October 25 What many believe to be the first formal training on first aid in American history took place at the Windsor Hotel in Jermyn, Penn., when Dr. Matthew J. Shields instructed 25 coal miners on ways to help their fellow miners. Upon completion of the course each of the miners was prepared and able to render first aid. The training led to marked decreases in serious mining injuries and fatalities - 1899 (Back in 1899 workers were trained to help other workers. Education for Changing Unions is for those looking for new and better ways to educate workers and communities about unions and the principles for which they stand. It is filled with spirited new ideas, practical exercises and issues under debate. It’s written in a clear and accessible style that’s designed to stimulate working people and teachers in many settings and locations.) Some 25,000 silk dye workers strike in Paterson, N.J. - 1934 In what becomes known as the Great Hawaiian Dock Strike, a 6-month struggle to win wage parity with mainland dock workers, ends in victory - 1949 The Tribune Co. begins a brutal 5-month-long lockout at the New York Daily News, part of an effort to bust the newspaper’s unions - 1990 John Sweeney, president of the Service Employees Int’l Union, elected president of AFL-CIO – 1995 (A Bitter Pill: A Lenny Moss Mystery: As president of SEIU, Sweeney represented hospital workers. In this entertaining mystery, hospital worker and union steward Lenny Moss and his friends at James Madison Hospital are in the fight of their lives. The new hospital president, Robert “Third Reich” Reichart, has turned the hospital into a for-profit facility and launched a campaign to decertify the union. If successful, the decertification drive will destroy the union and compromise patient care as staffing levels are slashed and departments get outsourced to private firms.) After a two-year fight, workers at the Bonus Car Wash in Santa Monica, Calif., win a union contract calling for pay increases, better breaks and other gains. “They didn’t treat us like people,” nine-year employee Oliverio Gomez told the Los Angeles Times - 2011 From unionist/today-in-labor-history-95 October 25, 1997 – 200,000 Communists marched for a 35-hour work week in Rome, while here in America workers added nearly a week of work to their yearly total between 1990 and 2001. Meanwhile, workers in France and Belgium were more productive than American workers, despite only working 35-hours per week. (From the Daily Bleed) From modeducation.blogspot/2012/10/today-in-labor-historyoctober-25.html?m=1 1) New York Daily News lockout. From paullarosa/2010/10/the-new-york-daily-news-newspaper-strike-of-1990/ 2) Car Wash Workers Win 1st Union Contract! From act.aflcio.org/o/4001/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=59330
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