AFL-CIO predicts 200,000 for Solidarity Day in D.C
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It's been a long time: Over 500,000 trade unionists demonstrated in day, Sept. 19, 1981. In the interim, government and employers have Several hundred thousand people are expected to participate in Solidarity Day '91, an AFL-CIO national demonstration planned for Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Aug. 31.
The 13 million-member trade-union federation is appealing to all American trade unionists and labor's traditional allies 'in such areas as civil rights, healthcare, education, freedom of association and worker rights, the environment, and job safety" to join in.
The demonstration will demand legislation pronibiting the permanent placement of strikers, enactment of national healthcare trade unionists reform, and collective bargaining rights for all workers-particularly public sector employees.
Although the giant labor organization certainly has the capacity to build a massive national protest, it seldom has chosen to do so. In fact, this is only the second time in its history that the AFL-CIO has called a national demonstration.
The first time was the Solidarity Day in Washington, D.C., held on Sept. 19, 1981—100 years after the American Federation of Labor was founded. It was a huge Washington, D.C. on the first Solidarity increased attacks on working people.
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The first Solidarity Day, Sept. 19, 1981, mobilized over 500,000
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