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Ironworkers, Nurses, Hairdressers and Port Pilots: Behind the Scenes of the Library of Congress’s New Occupational Folklife Project: Wed, September 9, 12pm – 1pm
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FILM: Redes Lives! – The Iconic Film of the Mexican Revolution and What It Says To Us Today: Wed, September 9, 7pm – 9pm
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Labor & A Just Society: Wed, September 9, 8pm – 10pm
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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
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“Am I Safe @ Work” Webinar: Working People Winning in a Pandemic! Thu, September 10, 2pm – 3pm
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UNION CITY returns to our weekday daily schedule this week; 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.
Labor Day with the Labor Radio/Podcast Network: Union City Radio pod extra here. Labor radio and podcast hosts from across the country talk about their shows, the growing Labor Radio Podcast Network and the importance of worker media outlets. Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on Labor Day 2020.
Publisher locks out Capital Gazette staff
When staff at the Annapolis Capital and Maryland Gazette showed up at their newsroom on Monday – Labor Day – they were locked out by the paper’s publisher. The Annapolis newsroom is being shut down – along with four others across the country -- and the reporters had planned to clear out their desks and then stage a rally with the hundreds who came to show their support for local news. This, by the way, is the same newsroom where a gunman killed five staff members in 2018; the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for its work through that horrific trauma. “The community here loves these journalists,” environment reporter Rachael Pacella told the Washington Post. “We’re not going to give up easily.” Click here to find out more.
ATU 1764 to merge with Locals 689 & 1300
Members of ATU Local 1764 have voted overwhelmingly to merge their local into ATU Locals 689 and 1300, effective October 1. The local, whose members drive for some 15 area transportation properties, has made headlines in recent years battling union-busting by Transdev.
Today's Labor Quote: Frederick Douglass
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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
In convention at Topeka, Kansas, delegates create the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America. The men who repaired the nation's rail cars were paid 10 or 15 cents an hour, working 12 hours a day, often seven days a week - 1890
More than 1,000 Boston police officers strike after 19 union leaders are fired for organizing activities. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge announced that none of the strikers would be rehired, mobilized the state police, and recruited an entirely new police force from among unemployed veterans of the Great War (World War I) - 1919
Sixteen striking Filipino sugar workers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai are killed by police; four police died as well. Many of the surviving strikers were jailed, then deported - 1924
- David Prosten
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