LABOR CALENDAR; 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 Rally with SEIU 32bj Building Services Workers: Tue, October 1, 4:30pm – 6:00pm
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 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; 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 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. 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.” 
Today's Labor History 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 
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