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A Conversation With National LERA President-Elect Wilma B. Liebman
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. 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
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. Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: A journey down the Working River
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