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Phone Bank for Abigail Spanberger: Tue, October 6, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
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FILM: CHISHOLM '72: UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED: Tue, October 6, 7pm – 9pm
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Missed last week's Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here; Rochester (NY) Labor Council president Dan Maloney on the local labor movement’s reaction to the killing of Daniel Prude and the need for police accountability; San Francisco Mime Troupe’sTales of the Resistance, Episode 7: Fear of the Dark: "The Rotten Orchard." Can Primo come to grips with his haunted past? Will he be able to be more than just a good cop?
NoVA Labor “all-in” for election GOTV
With the help of NATCA Boots on the Ground coordinator Bob Zabel, and the leadership of the Virginia AFL-CIO, “NoVA Labor is all-in on this most important election,” reports NoVA Labor president Virginia Diamond. “In addition to lit drops and post card writing, we are holding nightly virtual phone banks for labor-endorsed candidates."
photos: Paul Kent, IATSE 22 (at left in photo at right), giving out literature at NoVA Labor for no-contact lit drops; Some of the more than 70 Carpenters union members who have been doing no-contact lit drops every Saturday.
Metro Washington Council warns against attempts to sabotage election
Delegates to the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO have approved a strongly-worded resolution warning that it would respond to “any attempt to obstruct, sabotage or otherwise undermine the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election.” The resolution approved at the September 21 Metro Council meeting says that the council, which consists of 200 affiliated union locals representing 150,000 metro-area Washington area union members would respond “by calling for an immediate collective action, by any means necessary, among our united membership.”
Today's Labor Quote: Lech Walesa
"Finally we have an independent union under our own administration. We now have the right to strike and we are going to demand more rights soon."
Polish Solidarity union founder Lech Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize on this date in 1983.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Roediger on "The Sinking Middle Class"; Feurer on Mother Jones' legacy
KU historian David Roediger talks with The Heartland Labor Forum radio show about his new book, The Sinking Middle Class. The Forum also pays homage to the most iconic woman leader in labor history; labor historian Rosemary Feurer on the life and legacy of Mother Jones. On Labor History in 2: A Chain Reaction of Human Misery.
Last week’s show: “Despotism on Demand”
A strike by set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif. when scabs try to cross the picket line. The incident is still identified as "Hollywood Black Friday" and "The Battle of Burbank" - 1945
The UAW ends a three-week strike against Ford Motor Co. when the company agrees to a contract that includes more vacation days and better retirement and unemployment benefits - 1976
2,100 supermarket janitors in California, mostly from Mexico, win a $22.4 million settlement over unpaid overtime. Many said they worked 70 or more hours a week, often seven nights a week from 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. Cleaner Jesus Lopez told the New York Times he only had three days off in five years - 2004
- David Prosten
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