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IATSE 22 rises to new heights

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Metro Washington Council Delegate Meeting: Tue, April 21, 1pm - 3pm
Via Zoom; [link removed] Pre-registration required. Zoom room will open 30 minutes prior (12:30); please sign in early!

Film: Union Maids: Tue, April 21, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Room opens 30 minutes prior (6:30p); please sign in early.
Introduced live by Academy Award-winners Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar!

Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are all teleworking and can be reached at the contact [link removed] numbers and email addresses here.

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Fire Fighters rock Instagram
If you're not following [link removed] Fire Fighters Local 36 on Instagram yet, here's your chance to see "DC's bravest in action on the job, participating in charity events, & with our families as part of the city of DC." The photos here are really dramatic. "We hope you check out us out on the grams and help us get to 10g followers!"

IATSE 22 rises to new heights
"Our second MEWP class took students to new heights and angles," [link removed] tweeted IATSE Local 22 back on March 18. What's a MEWP? A Mobile Elevated Work Platform. The class covered new requirements, how, when, and what to inspect, plus lots of hands-on time.

Free webinars for new union officers
Cornell is offering free online webinars for new union officers who want to use this time to improve their union skills. Topics include The [link removed] Organizing Model of Unionism; [link removed] Changing Yourself; [link removed] Changing Your Union and [link removed] The Legal Framework.

Today's Labor Quote: Lillian Roberts

"I had to break the law to force him to comply."

Roberts was an organizer for AFSCME, who led series of strikes at New York State hospitals to protest Governor Nelson Rockefeller's opposition to unionization. Her efforts landed her in jail for a month, after Rockefeller signed the Taylor Law on this date in 1967, permitting union organization and bargaining by public employees, but outlawing the right to strike.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK's dream?
Michele Fazio on "The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later"; Michael Honey, on "What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream of Economic Justice?" Plus Saul Schniderman on Ida Mae Stull, the nation's first woman coal miner.
Last week's show: [link removed] Organizing during historic crises

Some 12,500 Goodyear Tire workers strike nine plants in what was to become a three week walkout over job security, wage and benefit issues - 1997

- David Prosten

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