LABOR CALENDAR
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
CLUW Chesapeake Bay Chapter Meeting: Mon, June 22, 7pm – 8pm
Zoom
Save the Postal Service Car Caravan: Tue, June 23, 9:30am – 12:00pm
601 L street SE DC 20001
Gender, Race, Class, and the Vote: From the 19th Amendment to COVID-19: Tue, June 23, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Via Zoom
DC LaborFest screening: The Infiltrators: Tue, June 23, 7pm – 9pm
via Zoom
photo: at Friday's Labor Support Black Lives Matter march/picnic; photo by Chris Garlock; see more on our Twitter feed
Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Labor in the streets for Black Lives Matter protests
Labor supported the Black Lives Matter protests last Friday –Juneteenth – by providing food, including free pizza and hotdogs, and marching on the White House. Unions participating included ATU Local 689, IBEW 26, the Painters, Iron Workers, Mine Workers and the Union Veterans Council.
On Tuesday, reports NNU’s Stephen Frum, Washington DC VA, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, and Children's National Medical Center nurses, families, and workers represented by NNU, AFGE, and SEIU 722 rallied against racism outside of the hospitals. More than 70 chanted, marched, “and made a ruckus,” Frum tells Union City. “NNU nurse leaders Stephanie Sims (MWHC) and Elaine Sherman (DCVA) gave inspiring speeches to the crowd in the same spot we have gathered during our strikes and pickets.”
- Chris Garlock; photo by Stephen Frum
Today's Labor Quote: Dyana Forester
“We have to stand in solidarity with the black lives movement. That may not be our fight, but that is a fight that we support as a labor movement in solidarity.”
Forester, newly-elected president of the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO, appeared on the Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM last week; click here for the podcast.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Painters join Black Lives Matter protests; the history of black police in America; Race and Rebellion
Last week’s show: Labor supports DC Black Lives Matter protests; “Debs In Canton” preview; Revisiting The Battle of Homestead; Voices of exiled Iranian workers.
Eighty-six passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen’s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen’s League of America - 1918
Violence erupted during a coal mine strike at Herrin, Ill. Thirty-six were killed, 21 of them non-union miners - 1922
- David Prosten
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