by | Sep 23, 2022 | African American History, People
William Raphael Tate was a labor movement leader and a rabbi of the Beth Shalom Congregation in Brooklyn, New York. Born September 9, 1930, and raised in Brooklyn, Tate enlisted in the New York National Guard in the late 1940s and later studied labor relations at...
by divimachine | Apr 21, 2022 | Caribbean Head of State, Global African History, People
Sir William Alexander Bustamante ONH GBE PC was a Jamaican politician and trade union leader who became the first Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1962. He was born William Alexander Clarke on February 24, 1884, to Mary Clarke and Robert Constantine Clarke. Bustamante...
by TrudyWright | May 17, 2021 | African American History, People
Rory Gamble is the first Black president of the United Auto Workers. His term as president began in 2019, and expires in 2022. The union has over 390,000 active members. Because he was the son of an auto worker who was also a union representative, Gamble attended his...
by Brianna Booker | Dec 1, 2019 | Global African History, People
South African career trade unionist Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo was a leading figure in the movement to improve conditions for workers in South Africa, although she saw that campaign as separate from the anti-Apartheid Movement. Lucy Mvubelo was born on January 20, 1920 in...
by Tori Davis | Aug 17, 2019 | African American History, People
In 1968 Dorothy Bolden transformed domestic workers’ rights by founding the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America (NDWUA). Employed as a domestic for more than 40 years, Bolden created a union to promote their interests. The NDWUA helped domestic...
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