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Labor phone banks launch today

MWC PG BOE Candidate Forum canceled

Essential workers take outrage to the ballot box

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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(CANCELED) Labor 2020: Prince George's BOE Candidate Forum
Thu, September 17

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, September 17, 1pm - 2pm
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This week: Alex J. Wood on "Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace" plus the latest episode of Tales of the Resistance from the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

Virtual Phone Banks (NoVA Labor): Thu, September 17, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
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MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (PA): Thu, September 17, 6pm - 9pm
Maryland and DC union members are urged to sign up and help out; all you need is a computer and a phone.
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"The Power of the Women's Vote" Statewide Rally: Thu, September 17, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Black Labor Week: 2020 Census: Making Black Voices Count: Thu, September 17, 7pm - 10pm
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Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, September 17, 7pm - 9pm
Zoom; mailto:[email protected] [email protected] for details

NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, September 17, 7pm - 9pm
NoVA Labor, 4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale, VA
All four labor-endorsed Congressional candidates will speak: Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer, Jennifer Wexton, and Qasim Rashid, plus Virginia AFL-CIO President Doris Crouse-Mays.
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Montgomery County COPE special meeting: Fri, September 18, 10am - 11am
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Black Labor Week: The Power of the Black Vote: Fri, September 18, 7pm - 11pm
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Coalition to Repeal Right to Work (NoVA Labor): Fri, September 18, 7pm - 9pm
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Labor phone banks launch today
Saying that "This election is a fight for our democracy," the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO launches online phonebanks tonight. Virginia labor phonebanks also launch today; see Calendar for details. "Workers need to do all we can to get out the vote," urged State Fed president Donna Edwards. "All you need is a computer and a phone," added Legislative and Political Director Chuck Cook. The MD/DC AFL-CIO is working with the State Feds in Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, all states where labor turnout will be key. "You have proven your agility, persistence, and leadership in the face of a deadly pandemic," said Edwards. "We are again being called to step forward to lead workers to victory November 3."

MWC PG BOE Candidate Forum canceled
The Metropolitan Washington Council Candidate forum with Prince George's Board of Education candidates originally scheduled for today has been canceled and will be rescheduled in October.

Essential workers take outrage to the ballot box
Urgent financial, racial and health crises are galvanizing 32BJ SEIU's essential frontline workers to register 8,000 union member voters in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida. "While corporations are rescued by bailout after bailout, essential workers are redoubling their efforts to ensure they won't be left behind in November," said Jaime Contreras, Vice President of 32BJ on behalf of over 20,000 essential cleaners, security officers and airport workers in the D.C. area and Baltimore, MD. "This voting block of essential workers is driven by reasonable and urgent demands for essential pay and PPE because it means the difference between life and death, and financial stability and poverty." Kwaku Agyeman, a contracted wheelchair agent at National Airport and 32BJ member who lives in Alexandria, VA, added that "Trump does not care about us and has done nothing for us but make things harder. He only helps the very rich."

Today's Labor Quote: Susan B. Anthony

"Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work."

At a New York convention of the National Labor Congress on this date in 1868, Anthony called for the formation of a Working Women's Association. As a delegate to the Congress, she persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work. But male delegates deleted the reference to the vote.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Labor Day: no picnic in a pandemic
Peter Rachleff on the history and significance of Labor Day on the [link removed] Union Yes Iowa podcast; anthropologist Paul Shackel remembers the 1897 Lattimer Massacre; from the Library of Congress's brand-new [link removed] America Works podcast, Greg Vaught, the singing gold mine worker from Elko, Nevada.
Plus, Pete Seeger remembers textile mill striker Ella Mae Wiggins, and on [link removed] Labor History in 2: The Making of a National Treasure.
Last week's show: [link removed] We Do The Work; Working History.

75 workers die in explosion at Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pa. - 1862

One hundred thousand Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners go on strike. Their average annual wage is $250. They are paid by the ton, defined by Pennsylvania as 2,400 pounds but which mine operators have increased to as much as 4,000 pounds - 1900

Southern employers meeting in Greenville, N.C. ready their big counter-offensive to break the textile labor strikes that have hit the Eastern seaboard. Ultimately they deploy 10,000 national guardsmen and 15,000 deputies, but fail to drive hundreds of thousands of strikers back to work - 1934

A Southern Pacific train loaded with sugar beets strikes a makeshift bus filled with 60 migrant workers near Salinas, Calif., killing 32. The driver said the bus was so crowded he couldn't see the train coming - 1963

Ninety-eight United Mine Workers of America members and a minister occupy the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Va., beginning a year-long strike; thousands of mine workers and supporters assembled outside the plant to support the occupation. Among other issues: management demands for drastic limitations in health and pension benefits for retired and disabled miners and their dependents and beneficiaries - 1989

- David Prosten

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