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 * NASRIN * THE NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS

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Missed last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. Washington Gas workers (Teamsters 96) blow the whistle on corporate greed. Organizer Steve Lanning (LiUNA 11) on workers’ right to strike. And Brittany Scott on Ending Racial Discrimination in Industrial Temp Hiring Through Innovative Enforcement. Plus: WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; click here to support Your Rights At Work on Union City Radio (be sure to scroll down to Your Rights At Work) on the Jazz & Justice station in the nation’s capital.

Ticket-takers smell a rat at Strathmore
Scabby The Rat will help welcome attendees at next Sunday’s Wynton Marsalis performances at Strathmore. Union ticket-takers – members of IATSE 868 – are protesting the loss of jobs. “Strathmore management has decided to use the pandemic to permanently eliminate all full-time positions,” reports Local 868 Business Agent Anne Vantine. She adds that management also wants to replace ticketing staff who have worked at Strathmore for years, including one who’s been there since the venue opened, with kiosks. Sunday’s protest is at 5p; click here for details and to RSVP.

Solidarity Center Report: Women Agricultural Workers Push for Safe Transport in Tunisia

Women agricultural workers in Tunisia who endure dangerous transport in rickety vehicles to the fields, subjected to sexual harassment, injury and even death are standing up for their rights to safe workplaces with support from the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT). “We fell off the vehicle once, with 35 women on board. Some of them died. We don't want to see more of these accidents," says agricultural worker Sabah Dibyaoui. Read more at Solidarity Center.

Today's Labor Quote: Margo Price

It's been that way with no equal pay
And I wanna know when it will be fixed
Women do work and get treated like slaves since 1776

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Shootout in Matewan; General strike in KC. Last week’s show: Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview

After 14 years of construction and the deaths of 27 workers, the Brooklyn Bridge over New York’s East River opens. Newspapers call it “the eighth wonder of the world” - 1883

2,300 members of the United Rubber Workers, on strike for 10 months against five Bridgestone-Firestone plants, agree to return to work without a contract. They had been fighting demands for 12-hour shifts and wage increases tied to productivity gains - 1995

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