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D.C. Teachers to Help DCPS Fulfill Promise of Tech Support to Students: Mon, August 3, 8am – 10am
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This week's Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: CTU Speaks; My Labor Radio; Brazil Worker’s Podcast; Hero Americana; Speaking of Dignity; Stronger Together
D.C. teachers call for tech support for safe schools
This morning a group of D.C. educators will canvass Ward 8 communities to push DCPS to fulfill its promise of tech support for students. The effort is part of a National Educators United National Day of Action demanding safe schools. Calling themselves DC CORE (DC Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators), the local group includes DCPS educators from across the District who, while praising D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision to make school all-virtual until at least November 6, remain concerned about equity of technology access, particularly for traditionally underserved communities. “The all-virtual option is the only way to make sure students, families and staff remain safe in this out-of-control pandemic,” said Laura Fuchs, an educator member of the group. “The District needs to step up its years-long promise to provide one-to-one technology support for every student and make it happen now.” See Calendar for details.
Apprentices help conserve marine life in the Chesapeake Bay
Earlier this month, apprentices at the Cement Masons Local 592 training center in New Jersey finished constructing 60 reef balls that were loaded up and sent off to their new home in the Chesapeake Bay. The Coastal Conservation Association will place them there to provide an improved habitat for a wide range of marine life. The reef balls were built as part of the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance’s Work Boots on the Ground program, putting union members’ skills to work and fulfilling the mission of the program by uniting the labor movement through conservation. Read more here
Today's Labor Quote: Florence Reece
Workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
or will you be a man?
Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
A Mine Workers union activist who died in Knoxville, Tennessee on this date in 1986 at the age of 86, Florence Reece wrote the song "Which Side Are You On?" after her home was ransacked by Harlan County sheriff J.H. Blair and his thugs during a 1931 strike. Click below for the remix by Rebel Diaz.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Christopher Martin, author of No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class. Plus Florence Reece and Rebel Diaz ask “Which Side Are You On?” and this week’s Labor History in 2.
Last week’s show: Confederate monuments and the Knights of Labor
Uriah Smith Stephens born in Cape May, NJ. A tailor by trade, in 1869 he led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor - 1821
15,000 air traffic controllers strike. President Reagan threatens to fire any who do not return to work within 48 hours, saying they "have forfeited their jobs" if they do not. Most stay out, and are fired August 5 - 1981
- David Prosten
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