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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.

WV Kroger workers ratify new contract
Following votes taken over two days at stores throughout the region, UFCW Local 400 members working at Kroger stores under their West Virginia contract voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement. Highlights include fully-funded health care, raises and no increase to prescription drug costs maximums. Read more here.

LOC Guild fundraises to help LC food service workers
AFSCME Local 2910, the Library of Congress Professional Guild, is joining forces with the food service workers’ union, UNITE HERE Local 23, to gather contributions for workers in the Library’s cafeterias. With the cafeterias closed until further notice, thirty food service workers have been out of work since the beginning of the pandemic last March. Their health insurance benefits were terminated on July 31, and their extended unemployment benefits will run out in December. Contributions will go directly into a special fund set up by Local 23, which will distribute grocery store gift cards directly to food service staff. The Guild urges others in the labor movement to step up by contributing to the Community Services Agency.

Bumper harvest of labor radio shows and podcasts
“The right-wing has effectively taken over much of the media, from TV stations to radio and podcasts,” reports Portside, which publishes “material of interest to people on the left.” Fortunately, they say, “labor organizers and analysts are creating high quality informative podcasts and news shows.” The publication shared a list of selected labor podcasts to check out and share with friends and co-workers. The Labor Radio/Podcast Network, organized by MWC Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock, is prominently featured, along with the "Labor Radio Podcast Weekly," which features highlights from some of the Network’s nearly 80 shows. The Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and Your Rights At Work shows are founding members of the Network. Check out this interactive map of the Network.

Today’s Labor Quote: Mother Jones

“I’m not a lady, I’m a hell-raiser!”

Mother Jones died on November 30, 1930 at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Md. Photo: Mother Jones marker at the site with Friday's Folklore's Saul Schniderman, who worked to get it placed there.

Today's Labor History

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: From 1980 to 1995, during a time of significantly declining membership in most other American labor unions, the Service Employees International Union – SEIU -- nearly doubled its membership. Dr. Timothy Minchin explains why, in this excerpt from the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. The Columbine Mine Massacre, which took place on November 21, 1927, was an important moment in the Colorado Mine Wars. Bob Rossi, who hosts a monthly labor segment on the Willamette Wake Up show on KMUZ in Salem, Oregon, discusses miners' organizing efforts. Plus: On this week’s Labor History in 2:00, Rick Smith tells the story of the 1909 Uprising of the 20,000.
Last week’s show: A journey down the Working River

November 25
Some 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, participate in a solidarity parade of unions comprising the Central Trades and Labor Assembly. The parade was so successful it was repeated the following two years - 1883

November 26
Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door from which the women could flee was locked - 1910

November 27
The pro-labor musical revue, “Pins & Needles,” opens on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members. The show ran on Friday and Saturday nights only, because of the casts’ regular jobs. It ran for 1,108 performances before closing - 1937

November 28
Some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, begin what is to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers - 1953

November 29
Clerks, teamsters and building service workers at Boston Stores in Milwaukee strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. The strike won widespread support – at one point 10,000 pickets jammed the sidewalks around the main store – but ultimately was lost. Workers returned to the job in mid-January with a small pay raise and no union recognition - 1934

November 30
“Fighting Mary” Eliza McDowell, also known as the “Angel of the Stockyards,” born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women’s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 – 1854

- David Prosten

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Administrative
Manager, General Accounting, BAC (International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers) (Posted: 11/19/2020)
Office Assistant, ATU (Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689) (Posted: 11/23/2020)

Communications
Digital Media Associate, CWA (Communications Workers of America) (Posted: 11/17/2020)
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Interns
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Legal
June D.W. Kalijarvi; Employment Law Fellowship; two-year fellowship, commencing in the summer of 2021, but no later than September 1, 2021. Send a cover letter indicating interest in the fellowship; a resume; a writing sample of recent, independent work; a law school transcript; and two letters of recommendation. Deadline for submitting applications is January 31, 2021. email all materials to: [email protected]

Misc
National Coordinator, Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare (Posted: 11/19/2020)

Organizing
Digital Organizing Coordinator, UFR (United for Respect) (remote) (Posted: 11/20/2020)

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