Published in the September 23, 2016 Santa Maria Times. On Sept. 2, for the third consecutive year, unions of the Santa Maria Valley, working in conjunction with the Tri-Counties Central Labor Council, hosted the Santa Maria Valley Union Picnic and Celebration to commemorate labor and Labor Day. As in the past, the event was held […]
Read More →By Moshe Marvit in the September 2, 2016 The Washington Post The first Labor Day celebration took place 134 years ago in New York City, at a time when organizing a union was not yet a protected right. In that era, labor unions were often viewed as criminal conspiracies, and a few years later, with […]
Read More →The Union Labor Day Picnic held on Friday, September 2 was a huge success. Our Board of Trustee candidates Dan Hilker and Jeff Hall both made fine speeches. In addition, speeches were given by Congresswoman Lois Capps; Santa Maria City Council candidate Hector Sanchez; Congress candidate Salud Carbajal; Santa Maria Joint Union High School board […]
Read More →On September 2 the Part-Time Faculty Association, working in collaboration with the United Domestic Workers Local 3930, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, Laborers Local 220, the Tri Counties Central Labor Council and the Service Employees International Union Local 721, will be hosting the Third Annual Santa Maria Valley Union Picnic. The event […]
Read More →Published in the July 22, 2016 Santa Maria Times. “The past is the best prophet of the future,” wrote English poet Lord Byron, and nothing in our past speaks more poignantly to this than the Nazi Holocaust. But like many other important historical events, it appears to me students coming out of our local K-12 […]
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