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Labor Activists Recall Dr. King's Murder 43 Years Later
Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News(APN) ATLANTA -- More than six hundred unionists and pro-labor activists participated in the We Are One march and rally on Monday, April 04, 2011, in Atlanta.
Bay Area Workers March to Support Wisconsin Labor
CROCKETT and SAN FRANCISCO, CA 4/4/11 -- Over a thousand events took place across the U.S. on April 4 to support the workers and unions in Wisconsin and the Midwest, where Republican-dominated state governments are trying to eliminate collective bargaining for public workers, and cut their healthcare and pensions.
Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Workers' Rights
“Work That Serves Humanity…It Has Dignity And It Has Worth.”Washington, D.C. ─ At the time of his death on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was marching in solidarity with 1,300 AFSCME sanitation workers in Memphis; the public employees were defending their right to collective bargaining for better wages, working conditions, respect and dignity.
