LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
CANCELLED: CWA Worker Resource Fair: Mon, September 28
Virtual Phone Bank for Jennifer Wexton: Mon, September 28, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
CLUW September Meeting: Mon, September 28, 7pm – 9pm
“Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide”: Tue, September 29, 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University
Airport Union Caucus: Tue, September 29, 2pm – 3pm [Please note new date]
Meeting for unions representing airport and airline workers
Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, September 29, 5pm – 7pm
Special Guest - County Chair Phyllis Randall
Virtual Phone Bank for Abigail Spanberger: Tue, September 29, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (NC): Tue, September 29, 6pm – 9pm
FILM: QUEEN SUGAR: Tue, September 29, 7pm – 9pm (will be done before debate!)
Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Catch this week's Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: Thoroughbred Teamsters; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers; Crimes of Capital; RadioLabour
DC labor Virtual Phone Bank set for Wednesday
In support of the endorsement of the candidates endorsed by the Metro Washington Council -- Ed Lazere (At-Large), Robert White (At-Large), Janeese Lewis (Ward 4) and Trayon White (Ward 8) -- for the Council of the District of Columbia, the Metro Washington Council will host a Virtual Phone Bank and Best Practices training session this Wednesday, September 30 at 2:30 pm via Zoom. Register here. “As we move forward in the election season, mobilizing to get our endorsed candidates elected is essential to success,” said MWC Political Director David Stephen. “To reach out to our labor brothers and sisters about our endorsed candidates while we socially distance, phone banking will be essential to success.” The NE Region training will cover topics from logging into Labor Action Network (LAN), the functions of the Virtual Phone Bank, and utilizing the script and talking points provided by the Labor 2020 Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO.
Solidarity Center Report: Kyrgyzstan Youth Tap into Their Workplace Rights
Young workers in Kyrgyzstan, including those with disabilities, took part in a recent Solidarity Center School of Young Leaders to learn their rights under the country’s labor code, with a special focus on disability rights. This event "is a bright example in the promotion of the principle of ‘equal opportunities for all’ that gives equal labor rights for all people, regardless of their origin, gender or health status,” said local disability-rights activist Askar Turdugulov. Find out more at the Solidarity Center http://www.solidaritycenter.org/
Today's Labor Quote: Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: “Despotism on Demand”
Sociologist Alex Wood on the history of the relationship between bosses and workers and how that’s playing out in the age of COVID-19. On Labor History in 2: The Wreck of The Old ‘97.
Last week’s show: Escape on the Pearl; Black Labor Week
165 Wobblies indicted for protesting World War 1 (1917)
- David Prosten
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