DC Labor FilmFest: 20 Years of Great Labor Films!
WORK SONGS: Available April 30 – Tickets $12

THE LUNCHROOM: Available May 4 – Tickets $5
IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE: Available May 6 – Tickets $5

Prince William County Labor Caucus: Mon, May 10, 7pm – 8pm

Meeting of union members and community allies in PWC.

DC COPE meeting: Tue, May 11, 2pm – 4pm

George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, May 11, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Coalition of faculty, students, alumni, campus workers, and contract workers

Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, May 11, 5pm – 6pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun County

Missed last 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.

Washingtonian staff strikes
Washingtonian magazine staffers launched a day-long protest on Friday in response to an op-ed written by their boss, who warned that continuing to work from home as the pandemic subsides could make employees less valuable and easier to “let go.” The action was especially notable because Washingtonian staff have no union. “We felt a little bit of trepidation, but we also understood this was a really public, egregious statement,” writer and Web producer Rosa Cartagena said.
- Excerpted from a report in The Washington Post by Elahe Izadi

Proud of LIUNA moms
“Mommy built that” - We are so proud of our @LIUNA members who are mothers, and who set a positive example not only for their children, but for women in #construction #happymothersday. CLICK HERE to see the short video from LiUNA! (Laborers union) Mid-Atlantic.

Solidarity Center Report: Two Women Union Leaders Arrested in Myanmar; Total Now 20+
Two more union leaders in Myanmar have been arrested for participating in pro-democracy rallies. More than 750 people, including more than a dozen union members, have been killed and at least 3,400 people arrested. Unions worldwide are calling for governments to halt trade and other financial support that provide backing to the country’s military government. Support workers under attack in Myanmar and find out more at Solidarity Center.

Today's Labor Quote: Gordon H. Chang

“Without the Chinese migrants, the Transcontinental Railroad would not have been possible.”

From his book "The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad." An estimated 15,000 Chinese migrants worked on the Central Pacific Railroad. However, they were paid less than white railroad workers and were not invited to the ceremony marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (see below).

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!

Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah – 1869

U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union. It favors industrial organization and independent labor party politics - 1898

A federal bankruptcy judge frees United Airlines from responsibility for pensions covering 120,000 employees - 2005

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