LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
Labor Live: Front-Line Workers and COVID-19: Fri, September 4, 6pm – 7pm
Labor Live: The Ongoing Economic Fallout of COVID-19: Sat, September 5, 12pm – 1pm
Labor Live: Protecting the U.S. Postal Service and Vote By Mail: Sun, September 6, 6pm – 7pm
Labor on WAMU’s “The Big Broadcast”: Sun, September 6, 9pm – 11pm
WAMU 88.5; or listen online. Includes Labor For Victory (June 27, 1943) "John Henry Hammers It Out" and Paul Robeson singing “Joe Hill”; click here for rundown on the show.
2020 “WORKERS RISING” LABOR DAY RADIO SPECIAL: Mon, September 7, 8am – 5pm
WPFW 89.3 FM; or listen online. Labor 2020; Labor and BLM Solidarity; Labor Radio/Podcast Network; COVID’s effects on DC-area workers; Plus labor music! Click here for rundown on the show.
Capital Gazette staff Labor Day rally to save local news: Mon, September 7, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Meet at Susan B. Campbell Park, Dock St, Annapolis, MD 21401
Restaurant & Food Service Workers Unite for Justice Rally: Mon, September 7, 1:00pm – 4:30pm
Meridian Hill Park, 16th St NW &, W St NW, Washington, DC 20009 (Meet at Joan of Arc Statue)
Catholic Labor Network: Labor Day Mass: Mon, September 7, 2pm – 3pm
Black Womxn Demands, Dialogue 2: #BlackLaborDay: Mon, September 7, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Ode to Our Essential Workers: A Labor Day Concert for All: Mon, September 7, 8pm – 10pm
Facebook live; Register here and learn more about the performers.
photo: at yesterday's UFCW 400 protests demanding reinstatement of hazard pay; see more here
UNION CITY will be off on Monday, returning Tuesday morning to our weekday daily schedule. MWC/CSA staff will be off for the Labor Day holiday. Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Missed yesterday's Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here; Grocery workers plan 18 simultaneous protests; how UFCW 400 members rescued boaters at sea last week; “The Case of the Wrinkled Egg”; Episode 5 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama.
Labor Day Weekend preview
Labor Day is coming up on Monday and though we won’t have our usual line-up of parades and picnics, the labor movement is still planning to represent. And the good news is that most of the action is online, so you can easily participate from the comfort of your own home! See Calendar above for details or click here; here are some highlights:
The AFL-CIO is hosting a Labor Live series focusing on the effects of the pandemic; tonight at 6 they’ll discuss Front-Line Workers and COVID-19; tomorrow at 3, the topic is The Ongoing Economic Fallout of COVID-19 and then Sunday at 6, the focus is Protecting the U.S. Postal Service and Voting By Mail. On Monday, there are two important in-person actions, the Capital Gazette staff Labor Day rally to save local news at 11:45a and the Restaurant & Food Service Workers Unite for Justice Rally at 1p, and/or you can tune in on WPFW 89.3FM, starting at 8am for Union City Radio's “Workers Rising” 4-hour Labor Day Radio Special, followed by Bill Wax spinning labor music from noon to 2, and then a Labor Day Town Hall exploring COVID’s effects on DC-area workers.
New leadership at ACE-AFSCME 2250
ACE-AFSCME Local 2250, which represents nearly 6,000 school-based supporting personnel throughout Prince George’s County, Maryland, has new leadership. Martin Diggs is the local’s new president and Timothy Traylor their new Executive Director. Diggs (right) has been a PGCPS bus driver for nearly 20 years, while Traylor has previously served as president of AFGE 383 and National Representative with the National Association of Government Employees. Diggs’ vision for Local 2250 is “to have knowledgeable and active members who participate in all parts of the union,” while Traylor says that his “true calling is in representing the interest of front-line workers.”
Fall 2020 MWC meeting schedule released
Noting that “We have a great deal of urgent and important work to do this Fall,” Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester has released the Council’s Fall Delegate meeting schedule; all meetings will be on Zoom, see below for RSVP links. Always check the online calendar for latest updates.
Sept 21: 5-7p; Oct 19: 2p-4p; Nov 16: 2p-4p; Dec 21: 2p-4p.
Today's Labor Quote: Maya Angelou
“Nothing will work, unless you do.”
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Cutting along the Color Line
Quincy Mills, Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park, talks about black barbers, the evolution of their trade, and its political meaning as a skilled form of labor.
Plus: poet Martin Espada reads his poem "Castles for the Laborers and Ballgames on the Radio," written for his friend, historian Howard Zinn. This week’s Labor History in 2: The Amistad.
Last week’s show: A travel guide to labor landmarks
September 4
Twelve thousand New York tailors strike over sweatshop conditions - 1894
What many believe was to become the longest strike in U.S. history, 600 Teamster-represented workers walk out at the Diamond Walnut processing plant in Stockton, Calif., after the company refused to restore a 30 percent pay cut they had earlier taken to help out the company. The two sides ultimately agreed to a new contract after 14 years - 1991
September 5
20,000 to 30,000 marchers participate in New York's first Labor Day parade, demanding the eight-hour day - 1882
Palmer raids on all Wobbly halls and offices in 48 cities in U.S. Alexander Palmer, U.S. Attorney General, was rounding up radicals and leftists - 1917
Ten thousand angry textile strikers, fighting for better wages and working conditions, besiege a factory in Fall River, Mass., where 300 strikebreakers are working. The scabs are rescued by police using tear gas and pistols on the strikers - 1934
General strike begins across U.S. maritime industry, stopping all shipping. The strikers were objecting to the government's post-war National Wage Stabilization Board order that reduced pay increases negotiated by maritime unions - 1946
September 6
One of the worst disasters in the history of U.S. anthracite mining occurred at the Avondale Mine, near Scranton, Pa., when a fire originating from a furnace at the bottom of a 237 foot shaft roared up the shaft, killing 110 miners - 1869
Tony Boyle, former president of the United Mine Workers, is charged with murder in the 1969 deaths of former UMW rival Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter - 1973
September 7
Federal employees win the right to receive Workers' Compensation insurance coverage - 1916
- David Prosten; photo: Labor Day Parade Float in New York City, early 20th century. Photo via New York Department of Labor
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