NBC News: AFL-CIO "Hard Hats" protest Labor Dept. hearing on discrimination (1969)

[hadrons]

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On ther rampage circa Sept. 1969 (the day the Mets won the pennant)

[Omaha Steve]

1. Not one of labor's best moments

Many of these AFL-CIO members benefited from an NLRB member. His name was Howard Jenkins. The first black to sit on the NLRB board. His name was placed in nomination by Dr. M. L. King Jr.. I know Mr Jenkins was the deciding vote on my NLRB case from my 1980 illegal firing. Mr. Jenkins was a Republican and one of the best friends labor ever had.

My NLRB file: http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/261-38.pdf

http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/chapter5.htm

Good find. It seems I remember it was later determined many of these protesters were not union members.

OS

http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/Chapter7.htm

Jenkins’s appointment to the NLRB in 1963 meant that he would have the opportunity to broaden the activities of trade unions generally. His experience under the Landrum-Griffin Act, however, taught him to recognize that not all trade unions were accepting of the principles of equality and opportunity – two central themes in Jenkins’s legal work. Jenkins looked to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the NLRB as vehicles through which change could be accomplished.


Howard Jenkins, Jr. with President Lyndon Johnson