Today’s Labor Calendar
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#StopTheMerger Protests at Safeway & Kroger (Clarksburg, WV): Tue, April 4, 3pm – 4pm
Kroger #774 98 Emily Dr, Clarksburg, WV 26301 (map)
From UFCW Local 400 (more info here)
#StopTheMerger Protests at Safeway & Kroger (Alexandria, VA): Wed, April 5, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Safeway #1847 5980 Kingstowne Towne Ctr, Alexandria, VA 22315 (map)
#StopTheMerger Protests at Safeway & Kroger (Washington DC): Wed, April 5, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Safeway #2892 1100 4th St SW, Washington, DC 20024 (map)
#StopTheMerger Protests at Safeway & Kroger (Charleston, WV): Wed, April 5, 3pm – 4pm
Kroger #778 500 Delaware Ave, Charleston, WV 25302 (map)
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Health care workers support Access2Care bill
"Loraine Arikat of @1199SEIU_MDDC says that they know patients are delaying their care because they cannot afford it.," tweeted Maryland Health Care for All. "All Marylanders need #Access2Care (HB588) regardless of immigration status. #mdga23 @SenBillFerg"
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Washington Post workers fight for fair pay
"The @PostGuild is fighting for fair pay at the bargaining table," tweeted Washington Post Guild. "The Post hasn’t budged from current levels — the lowest around $30,000. In the DC area, this is unlivable. At a place like The Post, it’s unconscionable. Read our zine to see how we’re hoping to change that."
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Labor Quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
“Let me say to you tonight that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.”
Speech to striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN, on April 3, 1968. He was assassinated the next day; in the wake of this tragedy, riots broke out in many cities, including Washington, DC. |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike. Last week’s show: Erasing Virginia’s labor history.
The first issue of The Labor Review, a "weekly magazine for organized workers," was published in Minneapolis. Edna George, a cigar packer in Minneapolis, won $10 in gold for suggesting the name “Labor Review.” The Labor Review has been published continuously since then, currently as a monthly newspaper – 1907
Unemployed riot in New York City’s Union Square – 1914
Some 1,700 United Mine Workers members in Virginia and West Virginia beat back concessions demanded by Pittston Coal Co. - 1989
David Prosten
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