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Planned Parenthood DC staff get 1st contract
Staff in Planned Parenthood's D.C. office celebrated their first contract yesterday. Reached after more than three years of negotiations, the agreement works to address equity in the workplace, codify benefits, and provide staff -- members of SEIU 500 -- a voice in organizational decision making. "We are the doers," said Aaron Wilder, a member of the D.C. bargaining unit leadership team, "the employees who come to the job every day to tirelessly fight for Planned Parenthood patients and reproductive rights." The D.C. staff joins other Planned Parenthood staff who have already joined a union, including those in the organization's offices in Miami, Greater New York, the Rocky Mountains and Northern New England. [link removed] Read more here

Union Voice/Readers Write: Hiding in plain sight
"I received [link removed] this email from WETA," writes the Laborer's Steve Lanning. "I did not know there was a bust of A. Philip Randolph in Union Station, among other things learned."
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Today's Labor Quote: coal miner's son Merle Travis, from his song "16 Tons"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

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Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] 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: [link removed] Cutting along the Color Line

Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a ten-week strike after winning an eight hour day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores, where they had been forced to shop - 1897

More than 3,000 people died when suicide highjackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Among the dead in New York were 634 union members, the majority of them New York City firefighters and police on the scene when the towers fell - 2001

Crystal Lee Sutton, the real-life Norma Rae of the movies, dies at age 68. She worked at a J.P. Stevens textile plant in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. when low pay and poor working conditions led her to become a union activist - 2009

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