DC Labor FilmFest: Celebrating 20 Years of Great Labor Films!
Click here for tickets. All films available now: WORK SONGS * THE LUNCHROOM * IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE * MISS MARX * THE CHAMBERMAID * THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS * OPENS TODAY: NASRIN

Washington Gas Teamsters ‘Blow the Whistle’ on corporate greed: Thu, May 20, 6am – 7am
Washington Gas - Chillum Station 2130 Chillum Road Hyattsville, MD 20782; Springfield Station 6801 Industrial Road, Springfield, VA 22151; Northwest Station 11801 Nebel Street, Rockville, Maryland 11801; Southeast Station 4000 Forestville Rd, District Heights, MD 20747

Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, May 13, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.

Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, May 20, 7pm – 9pm
Email for call-in details: admin@mbaflcio.org

NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, May 20, 7pm – 9pm

LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussion: Thu, May 20, 7pm – 8pm

Our special guest this week is Kathy M. Newman, a regular blogger for Working Class Perspectives. She’s currently at work on Backstory: Film, Television and Social Class in the 1950s. This book includes an entire chapter entitled The Whistle at Eaton Falls, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary and opened at this year’s DC Labor FilmFest on May 18. RSVP HERE

NoVA Canvass for Del. Elizabeth Guzman: Sat, May 22, 12pm – 2pm
Andrew Leitch Park 5301 Dale Blvd, Woodbridge, VA (map)

Labor Book Club with Irish Historian John Dorney: Sat, May 22, 4pm – 5pm
Special meeting of NoVA Labor's Labor Book Club, with Irish historian John Dorney joining us on zoom from Dublin to talk about the great Dublin lock-out of 1913 as portrayed in James Plunkett's classic "Strumpet City." John Dorney is the author of "The Civil War in Dublin" and "Peace After the Final Battle - The Story of the Irish Revolution." John's father led the Irish Teachers' Union for 25 years.

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast.

Washington Gas Teamsters ‘Blow the Whistle’ on corporate greed

Washington Gas workers will rally and literally “Blow the Whistle Against Corporate Greed” at company facilities this morning 6a to 7a (see Calendar). Hundreds of whistles are being provided to the protesting Teamsters for these actions. The contract covering 600 union employees at Washington Gas -- owned by AltaGas, a Canadian corporation -- expires on May 31. Teamsters Local 96 has scheduled a strike authorization vote for next week. “Washington Gas workers have worked throughout the COVID pandemic at risk to ourselves and our families. We are essential workers, and we will not allow the company to treat us like we’re disposable,” said Washington Gas worker and Local 96 Teamster President Wilder Reed.

DC Essential Workers Bill of Rights video/petition
Click here for see the video from yesterday’s press conference by the DC Essential Workers Bill of Rights Coalition calling on DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to stand with essential workers.
Click here to join more than 500 who have signed the petition supporting the DC Essential Workers Bill of Rights.

Solidarity Center Report: Police in Lesotho Fire on Garment Worker Rally

Police shot 12 garment workers and two children in Lesotho after workers staged a rally for wages and benefits they have not received, according to union leaders, who say police chased and beat workers in villages as they broke up the march. Find out more at Solidarity Center.

Today's Labor Quote: Marty Walsh

“I grew up in a blue collar family and worked in construction – I knew people who got hurt on the job, and even lost their life. I've seen it shatter families and throw communities into grief. On #WorkersMemorialDay, we honor those who died & hold their families in our hearts.”

The Secretary of Labor laid a wreath at the DOL on April 28, Workers Memorial Day.

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

The Railway Labor Act took effect today. It was the first federal legislation protecting workers’ rights to form unions - 1926

9,000 rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio - 1933

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