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
George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, February 16, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
GMU professors, students, campus workers, and contract workers advocating for worker rights and equity. GMU subcontractors are engaging in wage theft and union-busting.
Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, February 16, 5pm – 7pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun.
Labor Radio Podcast Network livestream show: Wed, February 17, 7pm – 8pm
Watch live on Facebook
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, February 18, 1pm – 2pm: WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, February 18, 7pm – 9pm
Email for call-in details: [email protected]
NoVA Labor Monthly Meeting: Thu, February 18, 7pm – 9pm
Helping hospitality workers
If you have the resources please consider donating to support laid off UNITE HERE Local 25 members. Hospitality workers in the District, Maryland, and Virginia have been among the hardest hit by the pandemic. Most Local 25 members have been out of work since early 2020, and the hotel industry could take years to recover. Meanwhile, workers still have to pay rent, keep the lights on, and feed themselves and their families. In a time of such uncertainty, the CSA Emergency Assistance Fund is a crucial resource for struggling workers.
Link to donate here.
Solidarity Center Report: Morocco Garment Factory Disaster Results from Supply Chain Demands
A 14-year old girl was among the 28 garment workers killed in a factory disaster in Tangier, Morocco. Her mother says she had worked at the factory, an illegal sweatshop, for three years. “Where were the local government authorities? Where were the investors?” asked Amal El Amri, a representative in Morocco’s upper house of Parliament and Moroccan Labor Union (UMT) member. Residents in the area say the sweatshop operated for more than 20 years. Read more at Solidarity Center.
Labor Quote: Leonora O’Reilly
“... just so soon as a party loses sight of the good of the whole and works for 'party' right or wrong, it becomes a menace to the community ...”
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Valentine’s Day Strike of 1921. Last week’s show: Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney
Leonora O’Reilly was born in New York. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she began working in a factory at 11, joined the Knights of Labor at 16, and was a volunteer investigator of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. She was a founding member of the Woman’s Trade Union League - 1870
Diamond Mine disaster in Braidwood, Ill. The coal mine was on a marshy tract of land with no natural drainage. Snow melted and forced a collapse on the east side of the mine, killing 74 - 1883
Beginning of a 17-week general strike of 12,000 New York furriers, in which Jewish workers formed a coalition with Greek and African American workers and became the first union to win a five-day, 40-hour week - 1926
Rubber Workers begin sit-down strike at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. - 1936
- David Prosten
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