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DC Excluded Workers Rally: Mon, June 29, 9:00am - 10:30am
Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC

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2020 AFL-CIO George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award Ceremony: Tue, June 30, 10:30am - 11:30am
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DC Excluded Workers Rally this morning
"These are some of the most vulnerable workers there are," says Megan Macaraeg of Many Languages One Voice. "Workers in the informal economy, when their rights are violated, it pushes down the standards for everyone." Such workers are the subject of today's DC Excluded Workers Rally, set for this morning starting at 9am at Freedom Plaza. "It's just vitally important that everyone who cares about the rights of workers and cares about lifting the floor for everyone turn out," Macaraeg added.

Today's Labor Quote: Carl Sandburg

After the farmer, the miner, the shop man, the factory
hand, the fireman and the teamster,
Have all been remembered with bronze memorials,
Shaping them on the job of getting all of us
Something to eat and something to wear...

Excerpted from [link removed] "Ready To Kill," Carl Sandburg's poem about who should be memorialized in our statues; hear Elise Bryant read the whole poem [link removed] here.
photo: American labor unionist -- President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- civil rights activist, and socialist politician A. Philip Randolph. You can find a bust of him in Union Station next to the Starbucks.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Why America's most radical union shut down ports on Juneteenth. Plus, Arlo Guthrie sings "The Ballad of Harry Bridges" and Elise Bryant reads "Ready To Kill," Carl Sandburg's poem about who should be memorialized in our statues.
[link removed] Last week's show: SCOTUS bans LGBTQ workplace discrimination; Queer history of the UAW.

What is to be a 7-day streetcar strike begins in Chicago after several workers are unfairly fired. The strike was settled to the workers' satisfaction - 1885

An Executive Order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the National Labor Relations Board. A predecessor organization, the National Labor Board, established by the Depression-era National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, was struck down by the Supreme Court - 1934

IWW strikes Weyerhauser and other Idaho lumber camps - 1936

Jesus Pallares, founder of the 8,000-member coal miners union, Liga Obrera de Habla Esanola, is deported as an "undesirable alien." The union operated in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado - 1936

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in CWA v. Beck that, in a union security agreement, a union can collect as dues from non-members only that money necessary to perform its duties as a collective bargaining representative - 1988

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