LABOR CALENDAR
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
Airport Union Caucus (NoVA): Mon, August 17, 2pm – 4pm
Meeting for unions representing airport and airline workers.
NoVA Labor Faith/Labor Caucus: Tue, August 18, 4pm – 5pm
Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, August 18, 5pm – 6pm
DC LaborFest film: "The Plow that Broke the Plains" and "The River": What can they teach us today? Tue, August 18, 7pm – 9pm
Free via Zoom; register here
100 Years of Women's Right to Vote: A Candlelight Vigil: Tue, August 18, 8pm – 10pm
AFL-CIO, 815 Black Lives Matter Plz NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly: Labor Express Radio; AFT in Action; America's Work Force Radio; Working People; Solidarity Works. Plus: Labor History in 2:00 and latest music from Spudwrench. Available wherever you listen to podcasts!
Painters DC 51 welcomes new contractor
Painters District Council 51 (IUPAT) welcomed Mike Garner, Commercial Glass Installers LLC, as a new signatory contractor last week. In other DC 51 news, the IUPAT DC 51 Facebook Photo Contest runs throughout the month of August; click here for details (must be an active DC 51 member to submit).
photo (l-r): Derwin Scalph, Garner, DC 51 BMST Brian Courtien
Federici to receive World Peace Prize
UFCW 400 president Mark Federici has been chosen to receive the “Roving Ambassador for Peace” World Peace Prize in recognition of his “impressive solidarity and dedication to justice for working men and women on both a local and a national level.” Previous prize-winners include AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka; Federici is the first leader of an individual local to be honored. The presentation ceremony will take place on September 22 at UFCW Local 400 headquarters (Call 301-459-3400 to RSVP). For information on placing an ad in the WPP Honorific Journal (deadline 8/21), email [email protected].
photo: Federici at 2016 Save My Store rally
"Vote Like Black Lives Matter" tees from LHF
"Vote Like Black Lives Matter" T-shirts and baby onesies are now available from the Labor Heritage Foundation. Order here. "Your purchase helps empower the cultural arm of the resistance!" says LHF. Check out the video here and find out more about LHF on their website.
Today's Labor Quote: The IWW
“Capitalists of America, we will fight against you, not for you! There is not a power in the world that can make the working class fight if they refuse.”
The International Workers of the World passed a resolution against war at their national convention in 1916; this quote is from their newspaper, the Industrial Worker, just before the U.S. declaration of war in 1917. At the IWW War Trials in Chicago on this date in 1918, 95 went to prison for up to 20 years.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: “The Flintstones” and class struggle; The Ford Hunger March
Labor History Today producers Patrick Dixon and Alan Wierdak explore the labor history and class struggle lurking not too far beneath the surface of Fred's New Job, an episode from the third season of The Flintstones that originally aired in February 1963. Empathy Media Lab host Evan Papp visits the hallowed ground in Detroit where the labor battle known as the Ford Hunger March and Massacre took place. Plus this week’s Labor History in 2: Singing a Union Tune.
Last week’s show: Remembering Gene Debs; Waging Peace
August 17
Union employees strike The Los Angeles Times in an unsuccessful attempt to unionize all staff. - 1883
Year-long Hormel meatpackers' strike begins in Austin, Minn. - 1985
August 18
Radio station WEVD, named for Eugene V. Debs, goes on the air in New York City, operated by The Forward Association as a memorial to the labor and socialist leader - 1927
Founding of the American Federation of Government Employees, following a decision by the National Federation of Federal Employees (later to become part of the Intl. Assn. of Machinists) to leave the AFL - 1932
- David Prosten
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