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Strike for the Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public Education: Tue, December 8, 4pm – 6pm
Sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute
Film: RADIUM GIRLS: Tue, December 8, 7pm – 9pm; Last chance to RSVP!
FREE; RSVP here and check out the trailer below.
Q&A with directors Lydia Dean Pilcher & Ginny Mohler, hosted by Heather Booth! Presented by the DC LaborFest; co-sponsored by the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
The Teacher Insurgency: Wed, December 9, 4pm – 5pm
Looks at the underlying causes of underfunding and de-professionalization that sparked the 2018 and 2019 teacher strikes.
Midwest Academy Awards: Wed, December 9, 6pm – 8pm
Awardees include Alicia Garza, Partnerships Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance; Michael Podhorzer, Senior Advisor of the AFL-CIO
Ongoing: Combined Federal Campaign
CSA urges Federal workers to please consider contributing to CSA #19579; click here
Labor Radio Podcast Weekly:Black Work Talk; Working to Live in Southwest Washington; Willamette Wake Up; Labor Express Radio; Laborlines; Breaktime Breakdown; Belabored; Grit Northwest; San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus lends a hand
The Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus is working with the MWC’s Community Services Agency and NoVA Labor to adopt two Alexandria families in need for the holidays. Click here to donate via PayPal. Any money you donate will be used to purchase gift cards that will enable these families -- local immigrant families that have been impacted by COVID-19 -- to obtain the items they need most. The ADC Labor Caucus will then deliver the gifts to the families before Christmas. If you have any questions, contact Sean Casey at [email protected].
Baltimore CLC cancels Leadership Conference
In light of the travel and gathering restrictions made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic, “and in the interest of keeping our members and communities healthy,” the Baltimore Labor Council will not be holding its annual Leadership Conference this January. “We look forward to seeing you all at our 30th Annual Leadership Conference in 2022,” said president Glen Middleton Sr.
How to drive union
The UAW has released its annual report of union-built vehicles for 2021. These vehicles are made in the United States or Canada by members of the UAW and Canada’s Unifor union, a merger of the former Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Because of the integration of vehicle production in both countries, all of the vehicles listed as made in Canada include significant UAW-made content and support the jobs of UAW members. Click here to view the full list of union-made vehicles.
Union Voice/Readers Write: Thanks for the 20th Century
“Thanks for the 20th Century song (Today’s Labor Quote 12/3)" writes Dan Duncan. “I may be Maritime Trades but I am a rail fan. Never knew that song existed. Also, heard a noon train-whistle salute yesterday here in Burke to the memory of Brother Larry Willis (In Memoriam: TTD President Larry Willis)."
Today's Labor Quote: American Federation of Labor preamble
“A struggle is going on in all of the civilized world between oppressors and oppressed of all countries, between capitalist and laborer...”
The American Federation of Labor was formed on this date in 1886 by 25 unions in Columbus, Ohio.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: America’s last general strike
Last week’s show: Monopoly and Class Struggle: The games we play
114-day newspaper strike begins, New York City - 1962
President Bill Clinton signs The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - 1993; photo: Activists protest NAFTA in September 1993; Richard B. Levine/Newscom
Nearly 230 jailed teachers -- about one-fourth of the 1,000-member Middletown Township, N.J. staff -- are ordered freed after they and their colleagues agree to end a nine-day strike and go into mediation with the local school board - 2001
Faced with a national unemployment rate of 10 percent, President Barack Obama outlines new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals, saying the country must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work. Joblessness had soared 6 percent in the final two years of George W. Bush’s presidency - 2009
- David Prosten
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