Video: Memphis Comes to Washington | Standing Up for Public Service

Video: Memphis Comes to Washington | Standing Up for Public Service

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Watch this video from the induction ceremony held on Friday at the Department of Labor honoring the participants in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. Eight of the original strikers from AFSCME Local 1733 attended the ceremony.
Video: Memphis Comes to Washington
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The 1,300 sanitation workers who participated in the historic 1968 strike in Memphis, Tennessee — members of AFSCME Local 1733 — were enshrined into the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Labor Hall of Fame” on April 29, 2011.