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Greenbelt Post Office, 25 Crescent Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20770
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Meeting for Loudoun County union members and allies.

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Negotiations underway for UFCW 400's next Kroger WV contract
Negotiations on UFCW 400's next Kroger West Virginia contract are now underway. Due to the pandemic, all negotiations are taking place over Zoom video conference with the assistance of a federal mediator. "We have held a few preliminary sessions with Kroger negotiators and talks have proceeded smoothly so far, but we are just getting started," the local [link removed] reports. The negotiating team is pushing for "Wages we can live on; Schedules we can depend on; Healthcare we can afford; Retirement we can count on."

Labor joins Friday's Commitment March
This Friday, labor leaders are among those joining the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III for the [link removed] Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks, held in commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice. Confirmed labor participants include AFT president Randy Weingarten, Painters president Kenneth Rigmaiden, and AFSCME president Lee Saunders. At the historic 1963 march, labor leaders A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin joined with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., founder/President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), John Lewis, President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Roy Wilkins, President of the NAACP, and James Farmer, President of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to draw the nation's attention to racial inequality in America. With those issues of injustice still very much alive, the labor leaders and members will gather at 7:15 am Friday at the United Unions building (1750 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20006), before marching to the Lincoln Memorial for a program and then marching to the Martin Luther King Memorial.
-- David Stephen

Today's Labor Quote: Martin Luther King Jr.

"It's always the right time to do the right thing."

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] A travel guide to labor landmarks
Saul Schniderman takes us on a road trip to discover the markers, memorials and monuments commemorating the history and heritage of America's workers. Saul directs the [link removed] Inventory of American Labor Landmarks, a project of the Labor Heritage Foundation. Plus this week's Labor History in 2: Breaking the Glass Ceiling.
Last week's show: [link removed] "The Flintstones" and class struggle; The Ford Hunger March

August 24
The Mechanics Gazette, believed to be the first U.S. labor newspaper, is published in Philadelphia, the outgrowth of a strike by Carpenters demanding a shorter, 10-hour day. The strike lost but labor journalism blossomed: within five years there were 68 labor newspapers across the country, many of them dailies - 1827

The Gatling Gun Co. - manufacturers of an early machine gun - writes to B&O Railroad Co. President John W. Garrett during a strike, urging their product be purchased to deal with the "recent riotous disturbances around the country." Says the company: "Four or five men only are required to operate (a gun), and one Gatling ... can clear a street or block and keep it clear" - 1877

National Association of Letter Carriers formed - 1889

United Farm Workers Union begins lettuce strike - 1970

August 25
Birth of Allan Pinkerton, whose strike-breaking detectives ("Pinks") gave us the word "fink" - 1819

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded at a meeting in New York City. A. Philip Randolph became the union's first organizer - 1925

- David Prosten

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