Happy Labor Day!

As the only offspring of two union organizers, I learned first-hand about worker rights, and became an attorney for workers confronting oppression around our Nation, after first working as Appalachian Observer Editor, clerking for Memphis labor attorney Dan Norwood and the Hon. Charles P. Rippey and the Hon. Chief Judge Nahum Litt, Administrative Law Judges of the United States Department. of Labor.

Fondly remembering my parents and my mentor, Judge Litt, Solitary Forever!

Here are some reminders of why we need strong free democratic trade unions worldwide: