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In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while in Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike by the African-American sanitation workers' union, AFSCME Local 1733. [15] By 1969, AFSCME was unionizing 1,000 new workers each day. The organization saw its greatest period of growth in the 1970s.
In 1937, a number of AFSCME local unions, composed primarily of caseworkers, disaffiliated from that union and joined the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). [1] The CIO allowed these local unions to form the State, County, and Municipal Workers of America, and charged the new organization with competing with AFSCME at the state and local levels for membership. [2]
AFSCME Council 31 filed a counter-claim asking for the ruling to be vacated. [ 10 ] According to Crain's Chicago Business, "In response to a grievance by the union, the arbitrator ruled that the union failed to prove that the Rauner administration acted improperly or violated contract language governing layoffs.
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In 2016, The San Diego Union Tribune acquired the monthly entertainment magazine Pacific San Diego. [31] On June 13, 2015, at 10:02 p.m. PDT the final run of The San Diego Union Tribune was printed at the San Diego headquarters in Mission Valley began. [32] It was to print the Sunday edition newspaper for June 14, 2015.
The Union-Tribune was formed in 1992 through a merger of the San Diego Union (established 1868) and the San Diego Evening Tribune (established 1881). [2] The newspapers hald been under common ownership since 1901. [3] The Evening-Tribune was the evening paper, while the Union was the morning paper; the Union-Tribune is a morning paper. [3]
The Chicago Tribune is being sued by some of its staffers, who say they and other women and Black journalists are being paid less than their white male counterparts. The complaint filed Thursday ...
On July 10, 2023, SCNG announced it had purchased the San Diego Union Tribune from billionaire owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, for an undisclosed amount. [ 12 ] All SCNG newspapers, as well as the Los Angeles Times , various community newspapers, and regional editions of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal , are printed from the Press ...