The two-day event in New Jersey will begin with panels and workshops featuring speakers who worked with Mazzocchi or whose current organizing was inspired by him.
As an OCAW local and national officer, Mazzocchi juggled day-to-day union responsibilities with a commitment to civil rights, labor-based environmentalism, job safety reform, single-payer health care, nuclear disarmament, and union democracy.
Largely ignored is the positive role veterans from working-class backgrounds have played in key labor and political struggles since the mid-20th century.
Labor leader Tony Mazzocchi believed unions could inspire their members to engage in a broader political movement of working people. His Local 149 did just that in the 1950s — and in a suburban environment where no one thought it possible.
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