TODAY'S 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
Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, May 4, 5pm – 6pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun.
Virtual phone bank for the Medical Debt Protection Act: Tue, May 4, 6pm – 8pm
RSVP here
"Wednesdays with Warner" for the PRO Act: Wed, May 5, 8:15am – 8:45am
500 S. Lee St., Alexandria, VA (map)
NoVA Labor Arts Caucus: Wed, May 5, 3pm – 4pm
Contact [email protected] for link
Virtual Rally for the DC Essential Workers Bill Of Rights: Wed, May 5, 6pm – 7pm
RSVP and sign the petition
Film: Waging Change (on PBS): Wed, May 5, 7pm – 9pm
PBS; check local listings for station
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, May 5, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Contact [email protected] for the link.
COMING UP/MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
ELIZABETH "LIZ" DAVIS: WTU Virtual Celebration of Life: Thu, May 6, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Via Zoom. RSVP HERE.
La Lucha Sigue! 20 Years of Fighting for Immigrant Justice in Washington, DC: Thu, May 6, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
RSVP HERE
DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (Virtual): Sat, May 8, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
FREE; register here!
If you missed WPFW’s annual May Day show last Saturday, catch Hour 1 here. Union City Radio teamed up with the House of Soul with tunes about work and workers, along with the best of labor radio and podcast programming from across the country.
Labor Photo: May Day Rally
Co-sponsored by Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America and Northern Virginia Our Revolution at Senator Mark Warner's house. The rally was attended by over 200 people including members of CWA, ATU 689, Unite Here 23, UFCW Local 400, National Nurses United, Democratic Socialists of America, Our Revolution and others.
- Carl Goldman, AFSCME (ret)
Solidarity Center Report: Risks to Women Workers Pervasive in South African Mines
A new report shows women working in South African mines “at times confront danger, violence and indignity in their work environments,” where gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) appears both widespread and normalized. The report, by the Solidarity Center and South Africa-based Lawyers for Human Rights, finds that “women mineworkers, striving to support their families, live a troubling reality—one that comes at great cost to their physical and mental well-being." Find out more at Solidarity Center.
Your Voice/Readers Write: One of the 400
"Thanks for the Peter Seeger/Weavers item and 'Which side are you on?' (5/3 UC)," writes PAI News' Mark Gruenberg. "It was part of their last joint appearance, and, no, it WASN'T at Carnegie Hall. It was six months later at the pro-green pro-Hudson River cleanup Clearwater Festival in Westchester County, and word raced around the area, among all 400 or so of us, they'd be there. I ought to know...I was one of the 400."
Today's Labor Quote: Haymarket Massacre, by Jay Kulstad
On this day we celebrate the never-ending fight
of workers struggling for their workplace rights
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