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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings DC Labor FilmFest: 20 Years of Great Labor Films! THE LUNCHROOM: Available May 4 – Tickets $5
DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (Virtual): Sat, May 8, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Missed this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. This week's show: The AFL-CIO’s 30th annual Death On The Job report…DC Labor Chorus’ annual spring concert preview …Nikko Bilitza from DC Jobs with Justice reports on the Essential Workers Bill of Rights…and Gabriel Winant discusses his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. PLUS: We Did Not Come This Far, by the DC Labor Chorus. ![]() Labor news (& other cool stuff) from the Twitterverse
Tracing its roots back 75 years to the first bartenders union in DC, this pin is from the pre-merger days of UNITE HERE Local 25 (@DCHotelWorkers). It has the old HERE logo as well as the old logo of the Bartenders International League. (@arischwartz) Sing out Saturday with the DC Labor Chorus Join the D.C. Labor Chorus virtually for a joyous celebration of Spring this Saturday night (see Calendar) with some of their favorite songs. “We chose the best sing-along songs from our 23-year repertoire -- some of your old faves as well as new songs inspired by recent events. Our repertoire is diverse, with selections from the folk, gospel, protest, jazz, pop, and labor traditions.” Join on Zoom or the livestream on Facebook. Free, but donations gratefully accepted. Today's Labor Quote: We Did Not Come This Far We did not come this far to give up now TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY This week’s Labor History Today podcast: 50 years of “Strike!” Last week’s show: Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living!
May 7 The Knights of St. Crispin union is formed at a secret meeting in Milwaukee. It grew to 50,000 members before being crushed by employers later that year - 1867
May 8 The constitution of the Brotherhood of the Footboard was ratified by engineers in Detroit, Mich. Later became the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers - 1863
May 9 United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and his wife May die in a plane crash as they travel to oversee construction of the union’s education and training facility at Black Lake, Mich. - 1971
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