Army Sgt. Irving Taffler, stationed at a big American base in Italy after World War II, was ordered by his colonel to go out and hire 200 Italians to staff the facility. Taffler, a proud member of the Communist Party USA, went to the local Italian party office and put out the word. A week later the base was staffed by 200 Communists and supporters. 
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April 28, 2007
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PITTSBURGH — A hand-fabricated metal chime will ring out here on April 28, Workers Memorial Day, tolling for workers killed on the job starting with two miners who died April 17 in Barton, Md.
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“Stand Up for Health Care!” may be the largest rally in Connecticut history, May 5, as residents in the state struggle with a broken health care system that has reached crisis proportions.
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The phenomenal rise of the multi-million-dollar union-busting industry in the U.S. has paralleled the decline in the manufacturing base, the rise of the right wing and the decline in union membership of the past 30-some years.
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WAYNESBURG, Pennsylvania – El letrero en la tarima declaraba “Un sindicato; Un Convenio; Sin excepción”.
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En su recién concluido XIII Congreso, la Federación Puertorriqueña de Trabajadores (FPT) pasó una resolución en la cual exige que el gobierno del presidente George W. Bush retire todas las tropas puertorriqueñas que se encuentran en acción bélica en Afganistán e Irak
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¡Basta ya! es el mensaje que quiere entregar el Departamento de Oficios del Tránsito del sindicato de Maquinistas a la Casa Blanca y al Congreso el mes que viene. Una manifestación y después cabildeo con los congresistas están programados para el 17 de mayo.
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CHICAGO — Three seasoned Black union leaders came together recently at the home of the Rev. Addie Wyatt on this city’s South Side. Casually, the conversation turned toward the purpose of their coming together: to assess the role of unions in Black America and the leadership contributions of Black union leaders.
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NEW YORK CITY — Officials of the Transit Chapter of the Civil Service Technical Guild, the union representing the engineers, architects and scientists who work for the city’s transportation authority here, are decrying the anticipated May award of a construction-services contract to a private engineering firm.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — In what may be the biggest union gain in Arizona history, Pima County employees voted a whopping 94 percent in favor of union representation.
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