Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
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?
Union Twitter Watch: UNITE HERE 23
@unitehere23 chief steward Willie Price & AFSCME 2910 (@librarycongress) chief steward David Fernandez Barrial at Wednesday's LOC Rally and March to @senatemajldr McConnell's house for $600 stimulus. Price: "We have nothing. No jobs, no health insurance and our unemployment benefits are about to run out." photo by Saul Schniderman
Labor 2020: Phonebank for Ed Lazere
Join UNITE HERE Local 25 today at 5p as they hit the phones for Ed Lazere, labor-endorsed candidate for DC Council At-large seat. “Ed is a longtime friend of the labor movement and a strong advocate and activist on our issues,” says MWC Political and Legislative Director David Stephen. “His experience spans more than two decades of staunch support for working people and we need his voice on the Council to push a pro-worker, pro-labor agenda.” To volunteer, email [email protected]
Union Twitter Watch: UNITE HERE 25
Patricia Namyalo is an Arlington County mother, restaurant worker, & member of @DCHotelworkers. She has been on furlough since March. She fears @realDonaldTrump's decision to delay the COVID19 #stimulus talks has put her family at financial risk. @wusa9
Union Voice/Readers Write: Missing "u"
Our October 7 Today's Labor History said that the mission of the Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) was "to provide a form to work out jurisdictional conflicts"; Dave Richardson says "I think they provided a forum, not a form."
Today's Labor Quote: Lech Walesa
"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed."
On this date in 1982, the Polish government banned the Solidarity union and all other labor organizations.
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”
Thirty of the city's 185 firefighters are injured battling the Great Chicago Fire, which burned for three days - 1871
Structural Building Trades Alliance organizes in Indianapolis with goal of eliminating jurisdictional strikes that were seriously disrupting the industry and shoring up the power of international unions over local building trades councils. Conflicts between large and small unions doomed the group and it disbanded six years later - 1902
Upholsterers' International Union of North America merges with United Steelworkers of America - 1985
- David Prosten
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