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July 3, 1835
Children, employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., go on strike for an 11-hour day and six-day week. A compromise settlement resulted in a 69-hour work week. ~ Labor Tribune

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Union Man
Updated On: Jan 17, 2022
Jan. 17, 2022 | EQUALITY | If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Those disadvantages have persisted. Today, for instance, the wealth of the average White family is more than 20 times that of a Black one. King’s solution was unionism. In 1961, King spoke before the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest and most powerful labor organization, to explain why he felt unions were essential to civil rights progress. “Negroes are almost entirely a working people,” he said. “Our needs are identical with labor’s needs—decent wages, fair working conditions...”  The Conversation  Related: Teamsters: Let’s honor the legacy of MLK by passing the voting-rights legislation
 
 
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