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FILM: Suffragists in the Silent Cinema: Tue, September 8, 7pm – 9pm
Zoom; FREE; RSVP here
Ironworkers, Nurses, Hairdressers and Port Pilots: Behind the Scenes of the Library of Congress’s New Occupational Folklife Project: Wed, September 9, 12pm – 1pm
Register HERE to join
FILM: Redes Lives! – The Iconic Film of the Mexican Revolution and What It Says To Us Today: Wed, September 9, 7pm – 9pm
Via Zoom; RSVP HERE
Labor & A Just Society: Wed, September 9, 7pm – 9pm
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The Crisis Of The Postal Service: What’s Behind It? What’s At Stake? What Can We Do? Wed, September 9, 7pm – 9pm
Broadcast on ESFL’s Facebook and YouTube pages
UNION CITY returns to our weekday daily schedule today; send us your local labor news at [email protected].
Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Missed yesterday's last week'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.
September 2020 Free Downloadable Calendar
If the days all seem to run together in these pandemic days, click here for your free, printable monthly calendar for September 2020 from movement artist Ricardo Levins Morales. This month features “Teacher Fist,” available as a notecard, button or poster. The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of his Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. Watch for the 2021 Liberation Calendar coming very soon!
Labor Radio Podcast Network expands to more than 60 members in four countries
Launched in April, the Labor Radio Podcast Network has recently expanded to more than 60 labor-related shows in four countries. The voices of the working class often get overlooked in the corporate-controlled media. The goal of the network is to help raise the voices of working people and organized labor to demand and achieve better treatment from workplaces and elected officials. “The explosive growth in members of the Labor Radio Network in a few short months is testament to a movement that will continue to expand in the coming months and years,” said network founder Chris Garlock, the communications director for the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO, who hosts and produces several labor radio and podcast shows. The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcast hosts. Resources include a weekly podcast, Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows, a labor guest database and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support among members.
- AFL-CIO Now blog
Today's Labor Quote: Cesar Chavez
“The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.”
The Farm Workers union began its historic national grape boycott and strike in Delano, California on this date in 1965.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: We Do The Work; Working History
“Learn Yourself” is part of “We Do The Work,” airing weekly on Skagit Valley Community Radio KSVR.
Today we hear about LELO, formerly known as the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office, and founded in Seattle, Washington in 1972 when Black, Asian and Latino workers came together to work for racial and economic justice.
Ismael García Colón discusses his new book, “Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire,” about Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers, and their labor experiences in the post-World War II United States, on the Working History podcast.
Plus we preview the re-broadcast of the IAM’s 1950 “Boomer Jones” radio show and on this week’s Labor History in 2: Jane Addams is born.
Last week’s show: Cutting along the Color Line
Employers give in to the demands of striking miners in McKees Rock, Pa., agree to improved working conditions, 15 percent hike in wages and elimination of a "pool system" that gave foremen control over each worker’s pay - 1909
Workers give up their Labor Day weekend holidays to keep the munitions factories working to aid in the war effort. Most Labor Day parades are canceled in respect for members of the Armed Services - 1942
Some 2,600 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers begin what is to be a successful six-day strike for higher pay and against a two-tier wage system - 1997
- David Prosten
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