Hardhats for America v. Trump

Oct 13, 2020 | CCDC Blog, Labor

from Hardhats for America, linked from full-page ad in the Daily Local News, 10/9/20, by Sean McGarvey, President, North America’s Building Trades unions: Where we come from, a man’s word is his bond. After four years of broken promises and the Administration’s...

Our Labor History Timeline

Sep 7, 2020 | Labor

AFL-CIO offers a lengthy list of events in the history of the US labor movement. Some early highlights: 1843 Lowell [Mass.] Female Labor Reform Association begins public petitioning for 10-hour day 1869 Colored National Labor Union formed 1909 Unorganized immigrant...

Celebrating the labor in Labor Day

Sep 6, 2020 | CCDC Blog, Labor

Dear Chester County Democrat: Happy Labor Day. We have less than two months until the polls open. And about a month until we start mailing back our Mail-In Ballots! As you enjoy this long holiday weekend, it occurred to me that not everyone understands why we...

AFL-CIO honors Labor Day 2020

Sep 6, 2020 | CCDC Blog, Labor

AFL–CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) has been, since it was formed in 1955, the country’s largest federation of unions in the United States, comprising over 50 labor unions with 12,000,000 active or retired members....

Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna Unveil Essential Workers Bill of Rights

Apr 25, 2020 | CCDC Blog, Health care, Labor

from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s site, 4/13/20 Washington, D.C. – Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) unveiled a proposal for an Essential Workers Bill of Rights to protect frontline workers during the...

A Labor Day Reflection

Sep 2, 2019 | CCDC Blog, Labor, PA House 167

by Rep. Kristine Howard (D-167) I am a union member. My father was a union member. Three of my children are union members. I work, and my father worked, in a public sector union job, my father as a probation officer in Camden, New Jersey, and me as a child abuse...

“We must march to demand the unqualified right to register and vote—we must march to demand the opportunity for decent jobs—we must march for the right to improve our wages and living standards.” — Bayard Rustin, born in West Chester, March 17, 1912