September 7, 2009 – 2pm
Chicago’s Pullman State Historic Site
111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue
Invited Guest of Honor: President Barack Obama
Moderator: WCPT Radio Host Dick Kay
Program:
Music and Food
Speakers Celebrating the Achievements of American Working Families — Commemorate Past and Ongoing Struggles for a Union Wage, the Rights of Citizenship, Healthy Workplaces, Strong Communities, Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Immigrant Rights, and Service Jobs that are Good Jobs.
Speakers Rallying for a Better World for American Working Families — Equal Opportunity for All Men and Women Regardless of Race, Ethnicity, Religion, or Sexual Orientation through the Employee Free Choice Act, Health Care Reform, Education Reform, and “Green Jobs.”
Providing Access to Services for American Working Families — Get Free Advice from Labor Lawyers and Representatives from the Chicago Public Schools , the Chicago Department of Public Health, Labor Unions, Community Organizations, and More.
Sponsored by: State of Illinois AFL-CIO, Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago Building Trades Council, Illinois Labor History Society, Pullman Business Council, Historic Pullman Foundation, Pullman Civic Organization, Bronzeville/Black Chicagoan Historical Society, Calumet Heritage Partnership, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, the Chicago Center for Working Class Studies, Arise Chicago, Jobs with Justice, A. Philip Randolph Institute, SEIU, AFSCME Council 31, United Steelworkers, EU-Illinois, Ironworkers Locals 1 & 63, Electrical Workers, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois State Senator Donne Trotter, Illinois State Representatives Connie Howard and Marlow Colvin
Co-Chairs Tom Shepherd (773) 370-3305 labordaypullman@gmail.com
Larry Spivack (312) 663-4107 ilhs@prodigy.net
Chicago’s Pullman State Historic Site
http://laborday.pullmanevents.info/
111th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue , 60628
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Our agenda, which is a work in progress:
1) Several exhibits within the old Pullman factory building, including Illinois Labor History Society’s “Illinois Labor at Work,” and exerpts from a Smithsonian Institution video documentary production titled, “Soul of a People,” followed by a discussion with producer/director Andrea Kalin of SparkMedia. It is a great documentary about the WPA’s Writer’s Project, designed to help put people to work in the 1930’s, and to chronicle the history of our nation’s culture at the time.
Presentation by author/historian Lyn Hughes, founder of the A. Philip Randolph-Pullman Porters Museum
2) A free picnic for striking and struggling workers and their families, including Congress Hotel employees (six years into their strike), Republic Window Co, who recently won a concession to keep their doors open, Hartmarx Corp., Resurrection Hospital workers, Quad Cities Die Casting Co., and others.
3) Speakers and related booths/tables dealing with Universal Health care, Employee Free Choice Act, Green Jobs, etc.
4) Address from Gov. Quinn and some of the local legislators; still awaiting word from White House and Sec. of Labor Hilda Solis.
5) Musical entertainment and some spoken word routines.
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