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Today we're highlighting Maida Springer Kemp, an A

Today we're highlighting Maida Springer Kemp, an American labor organizer and pioneer in the international labor movements of Africa, Turkey, and Indonesia.

Springer Kemp began working in the garment industry during the Great Depression. In 1933, she joined the Dressmaker’s Union, a local of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU). She rose through the ranks to become the first black business agent to control a district. She became known as "the pride of ILGWU" and was chosen by A. Philip Randolph to be one of the first African Americans to march in New York's grand union parade.

In 1945, she became the first Black woman to represent the U.S. labor movement abroad, serving as a delegate of the AFL and CIO to observe wartime conditions for workers in Great Britain. She helped forge a bond between leaders in the emerging African and U.S. labor movements as the international representative for Africa for the AFL-CIO, through which she developed training programs for workers, secured funds for constructing trade union centers such as the Solidarity House in Nairobi, and educated the leadership of the African labor movement.

When the Sahel Drought struck western and central Africa in 1970, she began coordinating relief programs for the African American Labor Center (AALC). Concurrently, she worked on issues of voter registration and education as the Midwest Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. She later expanded her international work as a consultant with the Asian-American Free Labor Institute, where she worked on the development of women’s labor activities in Turkey and Indonesia. After her retirement in 1981, Springer Kemp devoted her time to promoting equality for women in professional life through the American women’s labor movement.

Listen to her oral history interview at the link in our bio.

No more evictions! 🛑🏡✊ Protect the residen

No more evictions! 🛑🏡✊ Protect the residents of Graduate Village and all students and workers at the University of Oregon, who DESERVE free and dignified housing. 🤯😤😡 Read our slides to learn more about GE struggles during the summer months without universal summer funding, and the way that instability disproportionately affects International GEs and GEs with dependents. Sign the petition from the residents of Grad Village (link in bio) ♥️♥️ and say NO to Landlord Schill and UO Housing’s blatant disregard for GE safety. ⁣
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#scoducks #universityoforegon #solidarity #makeschillpayrent #housingforall #ducksdigsafety

URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT: Grad residents at Graduat

URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT: Grad residents at Graduate Village UO, one of the few options for on-campus graduate student housing, have been served with an unwarranted and unplanned eviction notice this past Friday May 21st. This is only one instance of a robust history of university admin jeopardizing GEs livelihoods and stability during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and one month before our 9-month long GE contracts are over, which leaves a majority of our membership without funding or stable employment during the summer months 🤯👿😤 Once again we are witnessing the University of Oregon privilege profit over people in their “re-opening” plans which put the safety and lives of workers and students at risk ❌👎 Show up in support and solidarity tomorrow ✊🌸♥️ MEET: 9am in parking lot of grad village and MOVE: shortly after to Johnson Hall to demand adequate and dignified housing for EVERY student and worker at UO #gtff3544 #solidarityforever #UOworksbcwedo #scoducks #universityoforegon

The GTFF stands in solidarity with the Palestinian

The GTFF stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and recognizes their struggle for their liberation and independence from the settler-colonial, capitalist state of Israel as wholly necessary.

We call on our parent unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Unions (AFL-CIO) to echo the International Trade Union Confederation’s condemnation of the violence and call for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. We urge AFT President Randi Weingarten, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and other national labor leaders to push the Biden administration to pressure the Israeli military to cease attacks against Palestinians, to stop arms sales to Israel, and to demand the end to displacement of Palestinians and expropriation of their land.

Read the full statement at the link in our bio.

Today we're highlighting Dorothy Lee Bolden, who t

Today we're highlighting Dorothy Lee Bolden, who transformed the landscape for domestic workers in the U.S. by founding the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America (NDWUA).

Bolden’s civil rights activism was rooted in her early experiences working as a domestic worker in Atlanta in the 1940s. She began working at the age of nine. At the age of 19, she was sent to jail and subjected to a psychological evaluation for refusing the demand of her boss, a white woman, to stay late and wash the dishes.

In the mid-1960s, Bolden led a protest and boycott of Atlanta schools to stop her children’s all-Black school from being moved to a condemned building and worked with Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders to confront police brutality in Atlanta. From her bus rides around Atlanta, Bolden connected with other domestic workers and listened to their stories of low wages and unfavorable work conditions. In 1968, she mobilized these domestic workers to create the NDWUA to fight for better wages and working conditions.

Under Bolden’s leadership, the NDWUA won workers’ compensation and Social Security benefits for domestic workers and raised Atlanta’s wages by 33 percent. In the 1970s, Bolden was appointed to President Nixon’s advisory committee on social services and welfare, and later served as a consultant on workers’ rights to Presidents Ford and Carter.

Listen to her oral history interview at the link in our bio.

In March, the ruling nationalist government in Ind

In March, the ruling nationalist government in India claimed that COVID-19 had reached its 'endgame' in the country. Come May, the virus has caused 240,000 deaths and 21 million infections so far - these are government figures that are hugely underestimated.

Join us on May 15 for a Zoom teach-in from activists working on the field in India to discuss the ground realities, structural ideologies and the global complicity that shaped the current COVID catastrophe.

Register and read the GTFF statement of solidarity at the links in our bio!

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