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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AFSCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFSCME</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PATCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PATCO</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atlanta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sanitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanitation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackpower</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wages</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reagan</a>

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Joyce Bell :mastodon: 🇺🇦🇨🇦“America’s public service workers – our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers. Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day. That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare.” <a href="https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/afscmes-saunders-elon-musk-you-have-no-clue-what-working-people-are-going-through" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.afscme.org/press/releases/2025/afscmes-saunders-elon-musk-you-have-no-clue-what-working-people-are-going-through</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/afscme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#afscme</a>

Talala 🇨🇦Hey- <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/uaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uaw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/nea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nea</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/seiu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seiu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/afscme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#afscme</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Teamsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teamsters</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ufcw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ufcw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/usw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/aft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aft</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ibew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ibew</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/liuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liuna</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iamaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iamaw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cwa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cwa</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ubcja" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ubcja</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ilwu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ilwu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iuoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iuoe</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ua</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/nalc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nalc</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/afge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#afge</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/apwu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apwu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iaff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iaff</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/UniteHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniteHere</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/npmhu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#npmhu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/atu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/anu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iatse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iatse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iasmartw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iasmartw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iupat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iupat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/iabsoriw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iabsoriw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/twua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twua</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/opeiu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opeiu</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/nrlcu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nrlcu</a> you watching this? <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3lk2lofqgoc2i" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3lk2lofqgoc2i</a>

Hrefna (DHC)<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labor</a> speakers at the DNC, in no particular order.* April Verrett (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SEIU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SEIU</a>, President) * Shawn Fain (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAW</a>, President) * Lee Saunders (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AFSCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFSCME</a>, President) * Brent Booker (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LiUNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiUNA</a>, President) * Kenneth Cooper (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/IBEW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBEW</a>, President) * Claude Cummings (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CWA</a>, President, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WeDontPlayAtCWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeDontPlayAtCWA</a>) * Liz Shuler (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AFLCIO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFLCIO</a>, President) * Kenneth Stribling (<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Teamsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teamsters</a>, retired)Sen. Gary Peters (Michigan) also appeared with several Teamsters. Anyone I'm missing?<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UnionStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnionStrong</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>

Heidi Li Feldman<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimWalz</a> at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AFSCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFSCME</a> today: “I happen to be the first union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan. But rest assured, I won’t lose my way.” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarrisWalz2024</a> cc <a href="https://friendica.opensocial.space/profile/kamalaharrisforpresidentnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews</a>

PeachMcD<a href="https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davidaugust</a> Solidarity from this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> grrrl in Tacoma. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AFSCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFSCME</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkingClass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AFSCME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AFSCME</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PATCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PATCO</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atlanta</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sanitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanitation</a>

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