Union City Radio: 7:15a M-F; WPFW-FM 89.3

Virginia Labor Walks: Sat, September 21, 9am – 12pm
NOVA Labor Office 4536 – B John Marr Dr., Annandale, VA
UA Local 110 Hall 7812 Warwick Blvd., Newport News, VA
Ironworkers Local 79 Hall, 5307 E. Virginia Beach Blvd., Norfolk, VA
CWA Local 2201 Hall, 5809 Lakeside Ave., Richmond, VA
SMART 100 Hall 2101 Dale Ave. SE, Roanoke, VA

FILM: I'm Leaving Now: Sat, September 21, 12:15pm – 2:00pm
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Wine and Cheese Reception (before the Play, "The Moment Was Now"): Sat, September 21, 7pm – 8pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church Theater 811 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD |
RSVP to [email protected]

Play: "The Moment Was Now": Sat, September 21, 8pm – 10pm; Sun, September 22, 2pm – 4pm
Emmanuel Episcopal Church Theater 811 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD

24th Annual CSA Golf Tournament: Mon, September 23, 9am – 4pm
Enterprise Golf Course, 2802 Enterprise Rd, Mitchellville, MD 20721
Click here for details and to register

Fed UP! Rise UP! AFGE Rally and Lobby Day: Tue, September 24, 12pm – 1pm
Capitol Hill below Area 9 (across the street from the Supreme Court)
Details, flyer and more available online here

VA labor launches ambitious Labor 2019 program
“Week one’s turnout was extremely inspiring and surpassed even our most optimistic expectations,” said Tom Thompson, NATCA & NOVA Zone Lead, referring to last Saturday’s official kick-off for Virginia AFL-CIO's Labor 2019 program. The central Virginia staging location was action-packed with visits from both Delegate Schuyler VanValkenburg (HD 72) who is running for re-election and Delegate Debra Rodman (HD 73) who is running for the state Senate in District 12. Out west, the Roanoke staging location was animated with union members from near and far, while Northern Virginia's staging location had union members engage in discussions with visiting candidate Dan Helmer (HD 40) and Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig. And in the eastern part of the state, both staging locations kicked things off with great enthusiasm as they had been joined earlier in the week by many of the House of Delegate and State Senate candidates. Walks and phonebanks continue tomorrow; see Calendar above for details.

Fore! Spots still available in Monday’s CSA golf tourney
The annual CSA golf tournament is just days away, but there are a few slots left, reports Executive Director Sonte DuCote. Email her at [email protected] “or just come to Enterprise Golf Course on Monday,” DuCote says. A continental breakfast is served starting at 8am and tee time is at 9. The $125 cost includes the post tournament banquet. "We have great participation from unions and allies throughout the metro Washington area,” DuCote added, “wonderful raffle prizes including an Amazon Fire HD tablet and chances to win good stuff throughout the tournament like a Washington Nats autographed jersey and a Lincoln MKC!"

Pittston, Solidarity and Labor's Future: Labor Podcast and Radio Roundup
In addition to the AFL-CIO's own "State of the Unions," there are a lot of other podcasts and radio shows out there that have their own approach to discussing labor issues and the rights of working people. Here’s a rundown on the latest radio shows and podcasts from across the labor movement in the United States, including AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka on Pittston, Solidarity and Labor's Future on WPFW’s Arise! Labor Edition.

Today's Labor Quote: Israelmore Ayivor

“Don't give up! It seems difficult to you, right? Why not do something little about it every day? A little strike each day can chop down big trees. Give it a try!”

Ayivor is a Youth Leadership Coach, Leadership Entrepreneur, author and speaker.

Today's Labor History

Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. “You can't know where you are going if you don't understand where you came from.” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka sits down with Labor History Today’s Joe McCartin to discuss the historic Pittston strike, which began on September 17, 1989, when ninety-eight members of the United Mine Workers of America and a minister occupied the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Virginia. Plus Cool Things from the Meany Labor Archives: the AFL-CIO’s attempts to persuade union voters not to support George Wallace during the 1972 presidential campaign.

Sept 20
Upton Sinclair, socialist and author of "The Jungle"—published on this day in 1906—born in Baltimore, MD - 1878

According to folklorist John Garst, steel-drivin’ man John Henry, born a slave, outperformed a steam hammer on this date at the Coosa Mountain Tunnel or the Oak Mountain Tunnel of the Columbus and Western Railway (now part of the Norfolk Southern) near Leeds, Ala. Other researchers place the contest near Talcott, W. Va. - 1887

International Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers Union of America changes name to Laborers' International Union - 1965

Sept 21
Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners strike - 1896

Mother Jones leads a march of miners' children through the streets of Charleston, W. Va. - 1913

National Football League Players Assn. members begin what is to become a 57-day strike, their first regular-season walkout ever - 1982

Sept 22
Emancipation Proclamation signed - 1862

Eighteen-year-old Hannah (Annie) Shapiro leads a spontaneous walkout of 17 women at a Hart Schaffner & Marx garment factory in Chicago. It grows into a months-long mass strike involving 40,000 garment workers across the city, protesting 10-hour days, bullying bosses and cuts in already-low wages - 1910

Great Steel Strike begins; 350,000 workers demand union recognition. The AFL Iron and Steel Organizing Committee calls off the strike, their goal unmet, 108 days later - 1919

Martial law rescinded in Mingo County, W. Va. after police, U.S. troops and hired goons finally quell coal miners' strike - 1922

United Textile Workers strike committee orders strikers back to work after 22 days out, ending what was at that point the greatest single industrial conflict in the history of American organized labor. The strike involved some 400,000 workers in New England, the mid-Atlantic states and the South - 1934

San Francisco hotel workers end a two-year contract fight, ratify a new five-year pact with their employers - 2006

Labor history courtesy David Prosten

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