The AFL-CIO is organizing activities in more than 100 cities. The organizing campaign among the 20,000 flight attendants at Delta Airlines will be a major focus of activity in Atlanta.

"We made a major commitment to our brother and sister attendants at Delta in 1998," Nancy Lenk, who manages the campaign, told the World. "We are going to take our ‘Appeal for Fairness’ to Delta officials and ask that they sign it."

Lenk said the major issues that have sparked the organizing campaign include scheduling and on-the-job injuries. "We get hit in the head when carry on baggage falls from the overhead compartments and there are many back injuries," She said. "Those beverage carts weigh over 400 pounds."

For Annie Wacker, director of the Milwaukee Area Labor Election Coalition (MALEC), "Seven Days in June" is a way of giving focus to the ongoing campaigns of MALEC. "We’ve been actively engaged in building relations with each other and community organizations for several years," she told the World.

"We are a grass-roots movement that depends on our ability to mobilize people rather than raising money. We are empowering ourselves." Wacker said her goal is to elect worker-friendly candidates to office "from the local to the federal level."

Local activities include Houston where the Harris county labor council will put its "Justice Bus" on the streets in search of workplace justice. At each stop union, religious and community supporters will rally in support of workers who face employer interference in their effort to organize into a union.

Among the activities planned in New York is a public hearing in Albany hosted by the state AFL-CIO and three central labor councils.

The hearing will highlight the struggles of workers involved in organizing campaigns by the United food and Commercial Workers and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, the Seattle Central Labor Council, in coalition with the community , will rally in support of hospital workers. The workers formed unions with the Office and Professional Workers, Food and Commercial Workers and Service Employees and are locked in a struggle to win a first contract.

The Greater Hartford Labor Council and community organizations will sponsor a public reception to honor members of the Connecticut Legislature who fought for a "neutrality clause" granting workers the freedom to choose a union and earn a living wage at a soon-to-be-built hotel and convention center in downtown Hartford