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Postal rallies call for passage of Heroes Act
Today's Labor History
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A Conversation With National LERA President-Elect Wilma B. Liebman
Wed, November 18, 5pm - 6pm
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DC Jobs with Justice's I'll Be There Awards 2020: Wed, November 18, 6pm - 8pm
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Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, November 19, 7pm - 9pm
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NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, November 19, 7pm - 9pm
Special guests: Delegates Jay Jones, Elizabeth Guzman, Lee Carter
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[link removed] Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Belabored; Union Strong; America's Workforce Radio; RadioLabour; The Blue Collar Gospel Hour
What's next for working people under a Biden/Harris administration? We've got excellent reports from Belabored, Union Strong, America's Workforce Radio and RadioLabour. This week's show also features a brand-new Network member, The Blue Collar Gospel Hour, where union autoworker, poet, and activist Dan Denton hosts a podcast for the 99% - featuring entertainment, news, music, poetry, art and interviews with interesting people. This week Dan visits with co-worker Gerri Edwards, an LGBTQ+ activist and pioneer who also hosts a popular, award winning Star Trek original story podcast series.
Postal rallies call for passage of Heroes Act
"Not only do postal workers deliver the mail through rain, snow, sleet and hail, but through COVID and anthrax," said APWU Local 140 President Dena Briscoe. Augmented by progressives, notably from the group Our Revolution, thousands of postal workers, other unionists and their supporters turned out across the country on Tuesday - including in Northeast DC, where Briscoe (at mic in photo) spoke -- to campaign against Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's plans to resume attacks on the U.S. Postal Service. And, speakers added, to lobby lawmakers, particularly GOP senators, to pass the Heroes Act, which includes $25 billion to keep the USPS going and offset the huge crash in profitable first-class mail caused by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic depression. [link removed] Click here to call your senators. Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester told the crowd gathered outside the city's main post office on Brentwood Road NE that a reliable postal service would provide Americans "the one stable thing" in the ongoing pandemic. The rallies, called by APWU and joined by members of UFCW, the News Guild, the Auto Workers and other unions, come as Congress again wrestles with renewing aid to the 21-million-plus workers in all occupations who lost their jobs since the pandemic hit. Just after the 9/11 attacks 19 years ago, an anthrax attack through the mail killed two postal workers; a memorial to one stands at the main D.C. post office.
- Mark Gruenberg, PAI News; photo: Hal Ginsberg/Our Revolution
Today's Labor Quote: Wreck of the Carl D Bradley
There's nothing you can do, said the captain to the crew.
The spar deck was awash, it's gettin' wetter.
The spar deck was awash, and the Bradely she was lost.
And there's nothing that you can do, Mister Fleming.
33 men died on Lake Michigan on this date in 1958 with the sinking of the Carl D. Bradley during one of the worst storms in the lake's history. The 623-foot ship, carrying limestone, broke in two. Two crewmen survived.
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Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] A journey down the Working River
The UnionDues podcast takes a trip down the River Thames, finding struggles and strikes, insurrection and inspiration.
And, on this week's Labor History in 2: Striking against privatization in Alberta, Canada.
Last week's show: [link removed] One Day More: Organizing through the Divide
Seattle printers refuse to print anti-labor ad in newspaper - 1919
- David Prosten
Hiring Hall
Plus dozens more DC-area union jobs; [link removed] click here!
Communication
[link removed] Digital Media Associate, CWA (Communications Workers of America) (Posted: 11/17/2020)
Legal
[link removed] Supervisory Attorney National VA Council (NVAC), AFGE (Posted: 11/16/2020)
[link removed] Assistant Counsel, NTEU (National Treasury Employees Union) (Posted: 11/13/2020)
Misc
[link removed] Field Representative (Organizer), AFSCME (ACE-AFSCME Local 2250) (Posted: 11/11/2020)
[link removed] Field Representative, AFSCME (ACE-AFSCME Local 2250) (Posted: 11/11/2020)
[link removed] Grants Manager, NELP (National Employment Law Project) (Posted: 11/16/2020)
[link removed] Pension Services Analyst I, PPNPF (Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund) (Posted: 11/13/2020)
Organizing
[link removed] Digital Organizer, Remote - but based out of Chicago; Pandemic Organizing Initiative (A joint project of Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) and the UE Research and Education Fund (UEREF) (Posted: 11/13/2020)
Political
[link removed] Campaign Coordinator, SEIU (Posted: 11/13/2020)
Research
[link removed] Research Assistant - Revolving Door Project, CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research) (Posted: 11/10/2020)
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