On 16 March, the Classified Staff Executive Committee met in Special Session in order to respond to a call from the Chancellor’s office that a member of the classified staff be recommended to serve on …
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Irish Pride and Green Dye
Today is celebrated as ‘St. Patrick’s Day’ and one of the great traditions to mark the event is the green dying of the Chicago River. This is performed by the Plumbers Union, who use an …
This Week’s Women in History Profile: Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860–1935) considered to be the “mother” of American social work, a founder of the NAACP, a champion of women’s suffrage, an antiwar crusader and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Addams carved out …
From the Factory Floor to the Dark Cosmos: This Week’s Profile of Women in History
Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937) of the USSR became the first woman in space when she was launched into orbit, alone, aboard Vostok 6, on 16 June, 1963. She was 26 years old. It would be …
Say it Now
There is currently a vigorous debate underway regarding the future of shared governance. It puts us in mind of the time when there was no shared governance on campus and students (among others) had to …
While supplies last…and they didn’t
We are very pleased to report there was an overwhelming response to our offer of Classified Staff Congress election posters. Once we let people know they could have a copy, we ran out before noon! …
I am a Woman…Hear Me Roar…
On this day, 8 March, in 1926, memebers of the New york Fur and Leather Workers Union, many of them women, began a strike that would be met with police beatings and threats to life, …
Protest ends with tragedy…
In the depths of the Great Depression, Ford Motor Company laid off 75% of it’s work force with no relief of any kind. This was in an era before Unemployment Insurance or Social Security, the …
The Revolution began with labor…
On this day in 1770, British soldiers, suppressing working people, shot and killed Crispus Attucks, a Black man, then killed others. Rope-maker Samuel Gray called out “Damn you! Don’t Fire!” just before being shot, at …
A Woman’s Place is in the Cabinet
In recognition of March as ‘Women’s History Month’, we recall that it was on this day, 4 March, in 1933, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt named a woman, Frances Perkins, to be secretary of labor. …