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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AFSCME Releases Podcast Detailing History and Legacy of 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike
… Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight … there while supporting the strike. The comprehensive series will examine the origins of the strike and events leading up to King’s death, and the aftermath of the strike. “The deaths of Robert Walker and Echol Cole in the back of a garbage truck … workers took a courageous stand, a stand that drew the American labor movement and the civil rights movement together to change the course of our history.” Today, the fight continues for fair wages, safe working conditions, collective …