Community Coalition Celebrates Juneteenth!
On Friday, June 16, the Community Coalition (COCO) held its first Juneteenth celebration with local officials, community organizations and labor unions.
On Friday, June 16, the Community Coalition (COCO) held its first Juneteenth celebration with local officials, community organizations and labor unions.
Today, August 7th, is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. This means that black women had to work all of 2017 and this far into 2018 to make as much as white men made in 2017 alone. Put another way, black women as a whole earn 38% less than white men. To read full story click here.
Organized labor is practically a shell of what it once was and regaining that strength is now a matter of urgent necessity. But Black unionists’ concerns are not a significant part of organized labors’ deliberations on regaining influence or real reform. For Black unionists, labor reform, in the public or private sectors, is mostly rhetoric not reality.