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Kennedy Center musicians gave a live concert for healthcare workers

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Feeding our Heroes and Sheroes
"This morning, we took 600 boxed lunches to our Heroes and Sheroes at Howard University Hospital," reports Wanda Shelton-Martin, Executive Director of the Metropolitan District 1199DC NUHHCE/AFSCME. "I want our members to know how much we appreciate them for what they do during this difficult time."

Kennedy Center musicians gave a live concert for healthcare workers
As an ambulance screamed by, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra violist Elizabeth Pulju-Owen reflexively covered her ears, then continued with her sound check and music setup. As she and her cellist husband tuned to their daughter's violin in front of the main entrance to George Washington University Hospital, workers in scrubs hurried by. The family trio was part of the orchestra's outreach to support frontline healthcare workers. In addition to the live music, orchestra members also donated money to provide lunches for medical staff. Seth Cook, the orchestra's principal tubist, is also the owner of Takoma Beverage Company. He said orchestra members raised $750 from their own pockets to provide 70 meals of sandwiches, quiches, and salmon filets for hospital workers. Orchestra members belong to the Washington D.C. Federation of Musicians ([link removed] AFM 161-710); read more in Jane Recker's [link removed] report in Washingtonian. photo by Jane Recker.

Today's Labor Quote: The American Federation of Government Employees

"In our workplaces and in our communities, we must reject the culture of divisiveness and rancor that asks us to deny the inherent human dignity of our brothers and sisters because of their race, their creed, their religion, their gender, their age, their disability, or their sexual orientation. As a union, we will continue our struggle for unity and solidarity."

In response to the events around the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd and the ensuing nationwide protests.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Labor supports DC Black Lives Matter protests; "Debs In Canton" preview; Revisiting The Battle of Homestead; Voices of exiled Iranian workers.
Last week's show: [link removed] Minneapolis general strike; "Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property"

Japanese workers strike at Oahu, Hawaii's Aiea Plantation, demanding the same pay as Portugese and Puerto Rican workers. Ultimately 7,000 workers and their families remained out until August, when the strike was broken - 1909

[link removed] Longshoremen's strike (photo) to gain control of hiring leads to general work stoppage, San Francisco Bay area - 1934

Hollywood studio mogul Louis B. Mayer recognizes the Screen Actors Guild. SAG leaders reportedly were bluffing when they told Mayer that 99 percent of all actors would walk out the next morning unless he dealt with the union. Some 5,000 actors attended a victory gathering the following day at Hollywood Legion Stadium; a day later, SAG membership increased 400 percent - 1937

United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and his wife May die in a plane crash as they travel to oversee construction of the union's education and training facility at Black Lake, Mich. - 1971

4,000 garment workers, mostly Hispanic, strike for union recognition at the Farah Mfg. Co. in El Paso, Tex. - 1972

- David Prosten

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