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NoVA Labor Local Candidate Interviews: Wed, October 7, 10am – 11am
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NoVA Labor Arts Caucus: Wed, October 7, 3pm – 4p
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Unemployed Hospitality Workers Rally/March: Wed, October 7, 4pm – 6pm
U.S. Library of Congress (101 Independence Avenue SW) then procession to Senator Mitch McConnell’s house (217 C St NE, Washington, DC)

Safe Schools Car Caravan (Anne Arundel County): Wed, October 7, 5pm – 7pm
Annapolis High School, 2700 Riva Rd, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA (map)
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MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (OH): Wed, October 7, 6pm – 9pm
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Workers Rights are Human Rights: A Community Call with DC Jobs with Justice: Wed, October 7, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
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LOC workers continue fight for rights and benefits
Library of Congress cafeteria workers will march on Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today at 4 (see Calendar) to demand extension of their recall rights and health insurance. Since being laid off at the start of the pandemic, workers at I.L. Creations at the LOC – members of Unite Here 23 -- have fought for both the extension of their employer-based health insurance as well as recall rights to their jobs when it is safe to return. “As the stakes continue to get higher, we are also continuing to fight for the renewal of federal employment benefits,” said Local 23.

Labor 2020: Every day is Election Day
With less than a month to go, “every day is Election Day,” says Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen. Watch for regular updates from him in the days ahead. Here’s today’s tips:
Make a plan and vote EARLY; For DC, get more info here; For Maryland, get more info here.
Get involved: Beginning Oct 14: weekly phone banking with the Maryland/DC State Federation, AFL-CIO. Register here.

Today’s Labor Quote: Joe Hill

“A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.”

The labor leader and song writer was born in Sweden on this date in 1879.

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”

The Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) is founded, becomes the AFL’s Building Trades Dept. five years later. SBTA’s mission: to provide a form to work out jurisdictional conflicts - 1903

Hollywood’s "Battle of the Mirrors." Picketing members of the Conference of Studio Unions disrupted an outdoor shoot by holding up large reflectors that filled camera lenses with blinding sunlight. Members of the competing IATSE union retaliated by using the reflectors to shoot sunlight back across the street. The battle went on all day, writes Tom Sito in "Drawing the Line" - 1946

- David Prosten

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