Illinois State AFL-CIO

We stand with the AFSCME Council 31 members at the Shawnee Correctional Center in their fight for safety on the job!

Wishing everyone a safe, happy and union made 4th of July!

to May 1937 when strikers had suffered arrests and severe beatings at the hands of Chicago police, who physically prevented them from establishing picket lines at South Chicago’s Republic Steel.

Joined by supporters from practically all walks of life, strikers decided late in the afternoon to march to the gates, determined to picket.

The Chicago Police waited for them, armed with revolvers, nightsticks and blackjacks and soon launched tear gas canisters and began firing into the crowd.

When the dust settled, ten were killed, thirty more shot, twenty-eight others hospitalized with eight suffering permanent disability and another 20-30 injured.

https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/may-30-the-memorial-day-massacre-1496287428/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSKhd5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeuZG-Of964O0YCQ67GbZXjgeqqTTJserS50WvTjfnMK4JfrH_zYl5bPl1tzw_aem_SZgV7NEd9k-ko1TwV_wOKw

An oldie but a goodie. Moving pictures. Good music. Mother Jones. What a line up!

Rockford has always been a union town.