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- 1Union pushes to safeguard value of education support professionals●Safeguarding the value of Education Support Professionals (ESPs)
The New Jersey Education Association is highlighting the value of Education Support Professionals, the paraprofessionals, aides and school staff who keep schools running but often receive low pay and little recognition. The union is calling for these workers to be safeguarded and properly valued, amid wider debates in the United States over school staffing, pay and working conditions.
- 2Remembering the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing that killed 21●Today in Labor History October 1, 1910: Twenty-one people were killed when the Los Angeles Times building was dynamited
On October 1, 1910, the Los Angeles Times building was dynamited during a labor strike, killing twenty-one people. Anarchists were immediately blamed, and the Iron Workers Union had been locked in a bitter battle with U.S. Steel at the time. The bombing remains one of the deadliest acts connected to the American labor movement's struggles.