A national day of labor solidarity has been called for this Thursday November 17 by the Occupy Wall Street movement and numerous labor unions. Actions have been organized in at least 30 cities across the country. Here is a link to the Chicago protest http://standupchicago.org/ Join the action in your area.
For more information, see the November 17th Labor Solidarity Facebook event page.
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 and other books and public history projects. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris “Mother” Jones.