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[link removed] Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, September 22, 5pm - 7pm

FILM: Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority: Tue, September 22, 7pm - 9pm
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Virtual Phone Bank and Best Practices training session: Wed, September 23, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
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MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (OH): Wed, September 23, 6pm - 9pm
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Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, September 23, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
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Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, September 23, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Special guests Delegate Rip Sullivan and writer Bill Fletcher, Jr.
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FILM: Resisterhood: Thu, September 24, 7pm - 9pm
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Introduced by AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Liz Shuler; Q&A with director Cheryl Jacobs Crim; Hosted by Dyana Forester, president, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO & Elise Bryant, president, Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Resisterhood is a feature-length documentary about the power of women, hope and resistance in the age of Trump. It follows fledgling and veteran activists as they fight for our rights on the streets and in the halls of power. Produced, directed, filmed and edited by women, Resisterhood is a testament to the strength of ordinary Americans in this extraordinary time.

Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses [link removed] here.

Catch this week's [link removed] Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: Thoroughbred Teamsters; The Voice of Oregon's Workers; Crimes of Capital; RadioLabour

Organize, organize, organize!
Despite the ongoing pandemic, local union organizing continues; here are three recent wins:
The staff at The Hub Project, in partnership with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, have unionized and requested voluntary recognition from management.
Office staff working for the Democratic Party of Virginia have unionized with UFCW Local 400 and negotiations on a first contract will begin shortly.
Staff members at Planned Parenthood's national Washington, D.C., office have unionized with SEIU 500 and reached an agreement with management to improve workers' rights.
See also [link removed] "The latest frontier in worker activism: Zoom union campaigns", by Eli Rosenburg, Washington Post, September 10, 2020

Updated link for virtual phone banks training session
Yesterday's link for this Wednesday's Virtual Phone Bank and Best Practices training session has been updated; [link removed] click here to register. The session is this Wednesday, September 23, from 2:30-4:00 PM. "As we move forward in the election season and mobilize to get our endorsed candidates elected, this phone banking is essential in our plan for success," said MWC Political Director David Stephen. "We need every MWC delegate to participate." To attend, you must register by [link removed] clicking here. A link will then be emailed to you for you to log in.

Today's Labor Quote: Emancipation Proclamation

"I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons."

As issued by President Abraham Lincoln on this date in 1862; [link removed] click here for the full text

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Escape on the Pearl; Black Labor Week
DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton connects a historic escape attempt by slaves with today's fight for DC statehood; AFGE's Black Labor Week on "Black History, Race and Racism in America," and on [link removed] Labor History in 2: The Fight for Equality in 1830.
Last week's show: [link removed] Labor Day: no picnic in a pandemic

Eighteen-year-old Hannah (Annie) Shapiro leads a spontaneous walkout of 17 women at a Hart Schaffner & Marx garment factory in Chicago. It grows into a months-long mass strike involving 40,000 garment workers across the city, protesting 10-hour days, bullying bosses and cuts in already-low wages - 1910

Great Steel Strike begins; 350,000 workers demand union recognition. The AFL Iron and Steel Organizing Committee calls off the strike, their goal unmet, 108 days later - 1919

Martial law rescinded in Mingo County, W. Va. after police, U.S. troops and hired goons finally quell coal miners' strike - 1922

United Textile Workers strike committee orders strikers back to work after 22 days out, ending what was at that point the greatest single industrial conflict in the history of American organized labor. The strike involved some 400,000 workers in New England, the mid-Atlantic states and the South - 1934

Some 400,000 coal miners strike for higher wages in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and Ohio - 1935

Eleven Domino's employees in Pensacola, Fla. form the nation's first union of pizza delivery drivers - 2006

- David Prosten

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