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45 Years Later, AFSCME President Lee Saunders Reflects on Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

Apr 11, 2013 Jackie Tortora | Other News

In case you missed it, AFSCME President Lee Saunders and AFSCME members who were part of the sanitation strike in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968 were interviewed on "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams."

Watch the video in the blog and check out the USA Today column, Renewing King's Fight for Black Justice, by Saunders, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III.

Memphis Ceremonies Complete Sanitation Workers Hall of Fame Induction

Jun 3, 2011 Mike Hall | Organizing/Bargaining

Tomorrow in Memphis, the 1,300 Memphis sanitation workers whose 1968 strike for the right to join a union and collectively bargain was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last campaign, will be honored in the second part of their induction into the U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Fame.