Sunday, November 4, 2012

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky

The Sunday Mail. « Fred Klonsky:


The Sunday Mail.

Thousands of runners in New York took to Central Park and Staten Island on Sunday morning, to both celebrate their sport and help those devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
From the CORE caucus: Chicago teachers should vote for Jay Rehak and Lois Ashford to sit on the Chicagoteachers pension board.
The Illinois Labor History Society honors veteran steel union reform leaders Ed Sadlowski, Alice Puerala and Frank Lumpkin.  When I came to Chicago in 1973 and got a job as a millwright in the 96 inch plate mill at US Steel’s Southworks plant, 20% of all the steel in America was produced between the East Side of Chicago and Burns Harbor, Indiana. Most of those high paying industrial jobs are gone now. It started with a “no-strike”