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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 24, 1pm – 2pm
Unite Here Rally for Voting Rights in D.C.: Sat, June 26, 1:30pm – 3:00pm At the National Mall in DC between 3rd and 4th Streets.
New Minimum Wage and Wage Theft Canvass: Sat, June 26, 3pm – 5pm Outside the U Street Metro at the intersection of Vermont Ave & U St NW • Vermont Ave &, U St NW, Washington, DC 20010 (map) ![]() How to help Stamp Out Hunger Labor Photo: Who's on the line? ![]() Today's Labor Quote: Albert Parsons “The giant Labor is awakening. The masses, aroused from their stupor, will snap their petty chains like reeds in the whirlwind.” 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. Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the International Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880 17 workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. - 1971
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