LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, January 28, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Guests/topics: AFGE Senior Policy Counselor Richard Loeb on Biden Action Revoking Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting Federal Workers’ Rights; Restaurant Opportunities Center Lead Organizer Sophia Miyoshi on tonight's webinar on your rights at work in a pandemic (see below); Sara Jaffe on her new book "Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone" (see story below).
Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, January 28, 6pm – 8pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Arlington
Your Rights At Work During The Pandemic: Thu, January 28, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Shenandoah Valley Labor/Community Alliance: Thu, January 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Meeting of union activists and community allies in the Shenandoah Valley
Bricklayers keep it clean in Baltimore
Helping ensure Baltimore residents' drinking water is safe for years to come, Bricklayers Local 1 members working with Caretti, Inc. plan to return this year to their work on the Montebello Filtration Plant in Baltimore. The plant’s two facilities were constructed in 1915 and 1928, and filter millions of gallons of water every day for Baltimore residents. The Bricklayer members will handle all brickwork for this project, which includes installing a 35-million-gallon concrete replacement reservoir with a precast concrete roof and upgrading the design elements to match the existing plant’s Italian Renaissance architecture, as well as Spanish tile roof and brick facades.
- photo: Lake Montebello, where the plant is located, courtesy of James G. Howes, via Wikimedia Commons
“Work Won’t Love You Back” Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe will discuss her new book Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone on the Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW (89.3FM) today at 1p. "Wry, passionate, and at times heartrending, Work Won’t Love You Back finds Jaffe breaking bread with artists, interns, domestic workers, video game designers, academics, and many others who have seen their labor systematically devalued, dismissed, and disregarded," writes Kim Kelly. "I think everybody should unionize their workplace — that's number one!" Jaffe told Kelly.
Labor Quote: Cornelius Vanderbilt
The robber baron who said: "Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?"
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The People, No.
Kansas City native Thomas Frank talks with the Heartland Labor Forum radio show about his new book about American populism, the long trail of elites who hate it, why pundits called Donald Trump a populist and why he’s nothing of the kind. Harvey J. Kaye on The Fight for The Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and The Greatest Generation Truly Great, from Empathy Media Lab. And on Labor History in 2:00, Rick Smith tells us about Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
Last week’s show: Stand! The new hit labor musical.
American Miners’ Association formed - 1861
First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin – 1932
- David Prosten
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