DC Labor FilmFest: Celebrating 20 Years of Great Labor Films!
WORK SONGS: Tickets $12

THE LUNCHROOM: Tickets $5
IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE: Tickets $5
MISS MARX: Tickets $5

THE CHAMBERMAID [LA CAMARISTA]; Tickets $5

THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS aka RICHER THAN THE EARTH: Opens today, May 18; 70th Anniversary! – Tickets $5

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Prosecutions of wage theft and other employer crimes against workers: Tue, May 18, 3:30pm – 5:30p

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Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, May 18, 5pm – 6pm

"Wednesdays with Warner": Wed, May 19, 8:15am – 8:45am

Windmill Hill Park, 500 S. Lee St., Alexandria VA

Worker Cooperatives in Spain: Mondragon Corporation: Wed, May 19, 11am – 12pm
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Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast.

Nurses mourn, and organize
May 15 On #InternationalNursesDay and to close out #NursesWeek, NNU honored more than 400 RNs who died of Covid in the pandemic by placing a pair of shoes for each one in front of the White House. If we had an OSHA standard a year ago, many of these nurses might still be alive today.
Bonnie Castillo, @NNUBonnie

Airport workers demand living wage
Breaking: 1,850,531 people were screened at airport checkpoints on Sunday - the first time topping 1.8 million since the pandemic. Don't frontline @BWI_Airport workers deserve a livable wage? #MDGA21 #MDPolitics #PovertyDoesntFly
@32BJSEIU

UC Radio hits 10K
Union City Radio just achieved 10,000 downloads on @podbeancom Check out our feed for latest DC-area labor news. Share the solidarity; follow Union City Radio on your favorite podcast platform!

Today's Labor Quote: Big Bill Haywood

“For every dollar the boss has and didn’t work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn’t get it.”

A founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, Haywood died in exile in the Soviet Union on this date in 1928.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview. Last week’s show: Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work

In what may have been baseball’s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers refuse to play after team leader Ty Cobb is suspended: he went into the stands and beat a fan who had been heckling him. Cobb was reinstated and the Tigers went back to work after the team manager’s failed attempt to replace the players with a local college team: their pitcher gave up 24 runs - 1912

Amalgamated Meat Cutters union organizers launch a campaign in the nation’s packinghouses, an effort that was to bring representation to 100,000 workers over the following two years - 1917

Atlanta transit workers, objecting to a new city requirement that they be fingerprinted as part of the employment process, go on strike. They relented and returned to work six months later - 1950

Insurance Agents International Union and Insurance Workers of America merge to become Insurance Workers International Union (later to merge into the UFCW) - 1959

Oklahoma jury finds for the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood, orders Kerr-McGee Nuclear Co. to pay $505,000 in actual damages, $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination - 1979

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