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Jennifer Carroll Foy Labor Happy Hour (NoVA Labor): Mon, October 7, 5pm – 7pm
Kilroy's, 5250a Port Royal Rd, Springfield, VA 22151
Support NoVA Labor champion Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy at this labor event; RSVP to [email protected]

UAW strike picket: Mon, October 7, 10am – 2pm
GM White-Marsh transmission plant, 10301 Philadelphia Road, White Marsh, MD.
photo: at one of UFCW 400's contract actions last week; via Twitter

Kroger member wins back pay, gets job back after year-long suspension
For UFCW Local 400 member Claudia McCann, it was a year that seemingly had no end. It all started with words. Claudia and a co-worker got into an argument and she was suspended. Despite more than 20 years at Kroger and a spotless record, the suspension dragged on and on with no end in sight. Local 400 filed a grievance, pursued her case aggressively, and eventually took it to an arbitrator who found that the first-time offense was not deserving of suspension and ordered Kroger to give Claudia her job back and pay her nearly $35,000 in back pay. “It really shows that our union really does fight for us,” Claudia said. “It goes right to the core of what we need.”
Read more here.

CSA launches Holiday Basket Program
The Community Services Agency is launching its 2019 Holiday Basket Program. This program provides support to needy union and community families for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Local unions and community members can support this program by donating gift cards and grocery store cards from union grocery stores like, Giant and Safeway (click here for more union grocery story options) to the Community Services Agency. Local unions and CSA partners may also adopt needy families for Christmas. "This is a great opportunity for the metro Washington area labor community to demonstrate empathy and support for needy families, said CSA ED Sonte DuCote. For more information email [email protected].

Today's Labor Quote: Phil Ochs

From his song “Joe Hill,” about the labor leader and song writer who was born in Sweden on this date in 1879. Joe Hill, sung here by Paul Robeson:
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Alive as you and me
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" says he, "I never died" says he
"I never died" says he"

Today's Labor History

Labor History Today (10/6): Sex Workers Outreach Project makes history in Minneapolis
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Dr. Jayne Swift on the historic city ordinance just passed this August that has the potential to change the face of the adult entertainment industry in Minneapolis. Plus, Steve Striffler on “Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights.” Interviews by Patrick Dixon.
Last week's show: (9/29/19): Mapping American social movements

The Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) is founded, becomes the AFL’s Building Trades Dept. five years later. SBTA’s mission: to provide a form to work out jurisdictional conflicts - 1903

Hollywood’s "Battle of the Mirrors." Picketing members of the Conference of Studio Unions disrupted an outdoor shoot by holding up large reflectors that filled camera lenses with blinding sunlight. Members of the competing IATSE union retaliated by using the reflectors to shoot sunlight back across the street. The battle went on all day, writes Tom Sito in "Drawing the Line" - 1946

Labor history courtesy David Prosten

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