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
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
MISS MARX: Opens today! Available May 11–June 6 – Tickets $5
DC COPE meeting: Tue, May 11, 2pm – 4pm
Register here
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
DC Labor FilmFest: MISS MARX (2020): May 11 – Jun 6, 2021
Opens today! Available May 11–June 6 – Tickets $5
"Wednesdays with Warner": Wed, May 12, 8:15am – 8:45am (See story/photo below)
Windmill Hill Park, 500 S. Lee St., Alexandria VA (map)
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, May 12, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Alexandria.
Contact [email protected] for the zoom link.
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.
AFSCME MD: Fighting for the living
"The fight continues every day in workplaces across the State of Maryland to keep ourselves safe while continuing to serve the residents of Maryland," wrote AFSCME Maryland Council 3 president Patrick Moran in his May Day message earlier this month, recognizing both Workers Memorial Day (April 28th) and International Workers’ Day (May 1st) remembering those workers who were injured, became ill, or died because of hazards like COVID-19 at work. "We continue the fight to honor those we lost...Governor Hogan’s administration has repeatedly tried to cut frontline workers during the pandemic with pay cuts, furloughs, and other unfair cuts. Our union stood strong against those cuts all summer and last fall...Thank you for everything you do," Moran said. "I know you don’t hear it enough. In the coming year, we have more fights ahead to ensure our workplaces follow health and safety protocols and can provide the important services residents of Maryland will depend on to fully recover from the pandemic."
Protest by cake: Special deliveries to Sen. Mark R. Warner urge him to back the Pro Act
Rain or shine, there will be cake, and on Wednesday, huddling underneath umbrellas, the group of labor rights activists carried their latest to Sen. Mark R. Warner’s doorstep in Alexandria, Va. It was the kind of white sheet cake typically found at children’s birthday parties — the seventh they have delivered to Warner’s home on consecutive Wednesdays, each made by a union-member baker and decorated with a slogan urging Warner to co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. “Support the president,” the icing said, next to cutout pictures of Joe Biden. And then, partly quoting him: “Send me the PRO Act.”
Click here to read the rest of Meagan Flynn's report in The Washington Post. photo: at last week's Wednesday's With Warner; photo courtesy Virginia Diamond/NoVA Labor.
Today's Labor Quote: Eugene V. Debs
“No strike has ever been lost.”
The American union leader and socialist, after the 1894 Pullman strike (see below).
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