LABOR CALENDAR

Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

DC Labor FilmFest: Pride: Tue, May 5, 7pm – 9pm
via Zoom
FREE; register here
Introduced by Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO. Post-screening Q&A with Jerame Davis, Executive Director, Pride At Work

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, May 6, 7:30am – 8:30am
Via Zoom

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

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Labor’s Census Week of Action
The AFL-CIO, it’s affiliate unions, constituency groups and allied partners have designated May 4 through 10 as Census Week of Action, encouraging outreach to union members and households across the country to ensure they get counted in the 2020 census. Click here for the #LaborCounts Census 2020 Week of Action Social Media Toolkit. "The diversity of the Labor Movement makes it critical that we do our part to ensure a fair and accurate count of every working person and their families," says the AFL-CIO. Each day this week has a theme; here's today's: "In 2010 the census undercounted more than 1.5 million people of color—but this year we have the power to change that. Stand up and be counted!" Social hashtags: #LaborCounts #Census2020 #2020Census #1uCounts

Two updates from NoVA Labor
FOOD DRIVE: NATCA, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, is coordinating non-perishable food collection at the NoVA Labor office. Contact Matt Sullivan at 401-378-3575 to help. Text Matt before going to the office to drop off food. NoVA Labor office address is 4536 B John Marr Drive in Annandale.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ASSISTANCE: NoVA Labor will be holding a second training on unemployment insurance at a date TBD. Please email [email protected] with issues you want to see addressed. Also send any other requests for training that will be beneficial to your members during the pandemic emergency.

Today's Labor Quote: John Sweeney

“We believe ‘Solidarity’ means sticking together, not getting stuck together.”

John J. Sweeney, president of the Service Employees Intl. Union from 1980 to 1995, and president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009, was born in The Bronx, New York on this date in 1934.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: Jack Kelly’s "The Edge of Anarchy”; “Union Maids” director Julia Reichert (Part 2)
Last week’s show: Julia Reichert: ‘We Don’t Just Interview People Once’; Montgomery Ward busted; May Day and Mother Jones

Some 14,000 building trades workers and laborers, demanding an eight-hour work day, gather at the Milwaukee Iron Co. rolling mill in Bay View, Wisc. When they approach the mill they are fired on by 250 National Guardsmen under orders from the governor to shoot to kill. Seven die, including 13-year-old boy - 1886

Nineteen machinists working for the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad gather in a locomotive pit to decide what to do about a wage cut. They vote to form a union, which later became the International Association of Machinists - 1888

Heavily armed deputies and other mineowner hirelings attack striking miners in Harlan County, Ky., starting the Battle of Harlan County - 1931

Lumber strike begins in Pacific Northwest, will involve 40,000 workers by the time victory is achieved after 13 weeks: union recognition, a 50 cent per hour minimum wage and an eight-hour day - 1937

- David Prosten

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