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Subject Auto workers are striking for us all
Date September 30, 2019 9:45 AM
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Auto workers are striking for us all

More CSA golf pics posted

Oct. Bread & Roses screens "Even The Rain"

Today's Labor History

Today's Labor Quote

LABOR CALENDAR; [link removed] click here for latest listings

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

UAW strike picket: Mon, September 30, 6am - 2pm; Tue, October 1, 6am - 2pm
GM White-Marsh transmission plant, 10301 Philadelphia road, White Marsh, MD. If you take Rt. 43 east off of 95, get off of 43 onto the Philadelphia road exit.

Rally with SEIU 32bj Building Services Workers: Tue, October 1, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
15th & K Street NW. WDC - McPherson SQ Park, McPherson SQ metro S.

Labor Live@5: De Sanguashington: Tue, October 1, 5pm - 6pm
WPFW 89.3FM
photo: Sept. 24 SEIU 32BJ janitor demo; photo by Chris Garlock/Union City

Auto workers are striking for us all
by Bruce Wolf
The Baltimore GM plant in White Marsh used to make auto transmissions and batteries for electric cars. It employed around 400 union workers. GM has closed the plant, and only seven union employees remain. One object of the current strike is to save these jobs. Aside from worker solidarity, how are other unions involved? The assembly tracks in auto plants were made and installed by iron workers. Fire sprinklers were installed by sprinkler fitters. When plants close the consequences affect us all. When workers are on strike, auto workers, teachers, health care workers--they are striking for us, and they should get our support. Walk that picket line! On Saturday's picket line, there was a steel worker, an electrical worker, and a public employee--they understand that a strike is not just about immediate demands--it is about working people demanding a better world.
photos by Bruce Wolf (IWW); the UAW picket in White Marsh continues daily from 6a-2p; see Calendar for details.

More CSA golf pics posted
More 2019 CSA golf tourney photos -- these by Freda McDonald -- have been added to the [link removed] online album.

Oct. Bread & Roses screens "Even The Rain"
Gael García Bernal stars in "Even The Rain," the October 15 Bread and Roses screening at the Takoma Busboys and Poets (free; [link removed] RSVP here). Filmmakers shooting a film in Bolivia about the conquest by Christopher Columbus become embroiled in controversy when their film schedule runs up against the Cochabamba protests. The screening is part of [link removed] Films Across Borders, which this year is focusing on stories of water: how we are drawn to it, how we use it, how this precious resource shapes human society and our daily lives.

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Today's Labor Quote: Mother Jones

"No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies."

Mother Jones on this date in 1899 organized the wives of striking miners in Arnot, Pennsylvania to descend on the mine with brooms, mops and clanging pots and pans. They frightened away the mules and their scab drivers and the miners eventually won their strike. Read more [link removed] here.

Today's Labor History

[link removed] Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Professor Jim Gregory on his innovative project to map American social movements online. Georgetown labor history professor Joe McCartin joins hosts Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant on a show originally broadcast on Labor Day 2019 on WPFW 89.3FM. The project, Gregory says, "allows us to see where social movements were active and where not, helping us better understand patterns of influence and endurance."

29 strike leaders are charged with treason - plotting "to incite insurrection, rebellion & war against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" - for daring to strike the Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa. Jurors refuse to convict them - 1892

Labor history courtesy David Prosten

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