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Every Vote Must Be Counted

Today's Labor Quote

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DC teachers stage sickout over safety
"It's not safe to reopen our schools at this time," Washington Teachers Union president Elizabeth Davis [link removed] told WTOP earlier this week. As [link removed] reported in The New York Times, the District of Columbia Public Schools said on Monday that it was canceling its plan to bring some elementary school students back to schools next week, after teachers staged a sickout to protest the plan. Davis said that the school system had failed to provide information on how it is making schools safe. "It's not enough just to have the mayor and chancellor say, `Trust us.'"
photo: WTU 6 members at Wednesday Count Every Vote rally; from [link removed] WTU Twitter feed

Every Vote Must Be Counted
Here's what national and state labor leaders are saying about the 2020 election...

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: "Democracy is rising in America...In the days to come, America's labor movement will defend our democratic republic and ensure our next president will be the person who is the choice of the citizens of the United States."

Fred Yamashita, Executive Director of the Arizona AFL-CIO: "Arizona has now become part of the Blue Wall across the western United States."

Georgia State AFL-CIO President Charlie Flemming: "Make no mistake: Georgia's labor movement isn't going to stand for this. We are determined to defend and protect our democracy."
[link removed] AFL-CIO Now blog

Today's Labor Quote: The Internationale

So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The international
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race

French transport worker, revolutionary socialist, and Paris Commune member Eugene Pottier died on this date in 1887; Pottier was the author of "L'Internationale," the anthem to international labor solidarity.

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Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today: podcast Organizing through the Divide
Author and historian Peter Rachleff and longtime labor educator and organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. explore labor's connections to Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue. PLus: A union-made Halloween.
Contributors: [link removed] Race Capitol podcast; [link removed] Labor History in 2.
Last week's show: [link removed] O Canada, organize!

November 6
A coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pa. kills 79. The mine had been rated gaseous in 1918, but at the insistence of new operators it was rated as non-gaseous even though miners had been burned by gas on at least four occasions - 1922

November 7
Some 1,300 building trades workers in eastern Massachusetts participated in a general strike on all military work in the area to protest the use of open-shop (a worksite in which union membership is not required as a condition of employment) builders. The strike held on for a week in the face of threats from the U.S. War Department - 1917

President Eisenhower's use of the Taft-Hartley Act is upheld by the Supreme Court, breaking a 116-day steel strike - 1959

Lemuel Ricketts Boulware dies in Delray Beach, Fla. at age 95. As a GE vice president in the 1950s he created the policy known as Boulwarism, in which management decides what is "fair" and refuses to budge on anything during contract negotiations. IUE President
Paul Jennings described the policy as "telling the workers what they are entitled to and then trying to shove it down their throats." - 1990

November 8
20,000 workers, black and white, stage general strike in New Orleans, demanding union recognition and hour and wage gains - 1892

President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces plans for the Civil Works Administration to create four million additional jobs for the Depression-era unemployed. The workers ultimately laid 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built or made substantial improvements to 255,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 playgrounds, and nearly 1,000 airports (not to mention 250,000 outhouses still badly needed in rural America) - 1933

In one of the U.S. auto industry's more embarrassing missteps over the last half-century, the Ford Motor Co. decides to name their new model the Edsel, after Henry Ford's only son. Ford executives rejected 18,000 other potential names - 1956

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