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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily Statehood is Racial Justice Rally: Tue, June 22, 8:30am – 9:45am East Capitol St and 2nd Street NE (map)
GMU Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, June 22, 3:30pm – 4:30pm Coalition of faculty, students, alumni, campus employees, and contract workers Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, June 22, 5pm – 6pm Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun County Tri-County COPE: Tue, June 22, 7pm – 9pm
Strathmore Demonstration (IATSE 868): Wed, June 23, 5pm – 7pm 4th level of the Grosvenor Metro Station parking garage (map) ![]() “Statehood is Racial Justice Rally” planned as Senate holds historic statehood hearing ![]() Local Shoot For The Cure event raises over $50K ![]() Solidarity Center Report: Unions Say Bangladesh Safety Accord Must Be Extended Today's Labor Quote: Elie Wiesel “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the oppressed.” ![]() TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Why America’s most radical union shut down ports on Juneteenth. Last week’s show: Debs on capitalism; Dudzic on the Labor Party. Eighty-six passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen’s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen’s League of America - 1918 Violence erupted during a coal mine strike at Herrin, Ill. Thirty-six were killed, 21 of them non-union miners - 1922
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