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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 24, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
Guests: Nikki Cole on tonight's "Wages, Benefits, and Fair Pay" panel; Barbara Krieger on workers under assault at Montgomery Community Television; plus Scabby the Rat, and Fatty the Cat: The Song!

Wages, Benefits, and Fair Pay: 20 Years of DC JWJ: Thu, June 24, 6pm – 8pm
Register here

Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, June 24, 6pm – 7pm
Union members and community allies in Arlington

Pride at Work (VA): Thu, June 24, 7:15pm – 8:15pm
Labor group in support of LGBTQ+IA rights. Everyone is welcome!

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
Although this year’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive wasn’t able to take place as it usually does in May, the AFL-CIO is partnering once again with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and asking members of the community to participate by donating food directly to food banks in their area. Click here for DC. here for Maryland, and here for Virginia. “As the need for food assistance is still more significant than ever, we want to allow everyone to continue to meet that need and help your local community food pantry or bank,” says the NALC.

Labor Photo: Who's on the line?
"I’m in Tuscaloosa County AL with striking Mine Workers outside the Warrior Met training center today," reports one of the folks in this photo, a longtime DC-area labor leader. "1100 union members have been out since April 1," he adds. Who is it? Send us your responses at [email protected]

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.”

Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons was born on this date in 1848.

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

- David Prosten

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