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LABOR'S
MILLIONS FOR MUMIA
Partial
list of labor organizations
calling
for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Labor
Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
AFL-CIO National Convention Defends Mumia Abu-Jamal
August 9-13, 2024
Postal
Workers Demand Justice for Mumia —Take Action!
May 28, 2024
PRIDE
AT WORK: Resolution to oppose the death penalty
and to call for a moratorium on executions
SEIU1100
delegates to the International Convention
of
the ServiceEmployees International Union (SEIU)
voted for a new trial for Mumia Abu Jamal.
Representing
the largest union in the United States with 1.4 million workers,
this
convention was assembled in the state where Mumia is imprisoned
on death row.
National
Writers Union
Open
letter from the National Writers Union calls on its members
to support journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal
Union
resolutions and messages
in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Membership
of labor organizations calling for new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
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| INTERNATIONAL |
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| Congress
of South African Trade Unions (South Africa): |
1,300,000 |
| Transport
& General Workers Union (UK): |
924,000 |
| National
Union of Journalists (UK): |
29,000 |
| National
Confederation of Education Workers (Brazil): |
600,000 |
| IG
Medien [media workers] (Germany): |
212,000 |
| CGT-General
Confederation of Workers (France) (low figure): |
640,000 |
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| UNITED
STATES |
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| Farm
Labor Organizing Committee: |
6,000 |
| United
Farm Workers: |
26,000 |
| Amalgamated
Transit Union: |
156,000 |
| Int'l
Longshore & Warehouse Union: (subtracting members included
under Bay Area central labor bodies) |
51,000 |
| San
Francisco Labor Council: |
70,000 |
| Alameda
County Central Labor Council: |
65,000 |
| South
Bay Labor Council: |
110,000 |
| San
Mateo Labor Council: |
43,000 |
| 1199
Nat'l Health & Human Services Union/SEIU: |
140,000 |
| Transport
Workers Union Local 100: |
35,000 |
| MEMBERS
OF BAY AREA & SOUTH BAY ENDORSING UNIONS that were not
already counted in totals of endorsing central labor bodies
in northern California (low estimate): |
24,000 |
Other
unions/labor organizations
(low estimate): |
200,000 |
| TOTAL:
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4,591,000-PLUS |
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Totals rounded to nearest 1,000.
Summer 1999
Sources:
Trade Unions of the World, Trade Union Handbook, Profiles of
American Labor Unions, CGT web site, inquiries by phone to offices
of labor organizations
Compiled
by Dave Welch
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