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Historic MD strike commemorated

Union Voice/Readers Write: The man on the line

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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 ([link removed] map)

Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, June 29, 5pm - 7pm
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Missed this week's Your Rights At Work radio show? [link removed] Catch the podcast here.
This week's show: NABET-CWA Local 31's Barbara Krieger on workers under assault at Montgomery Community Television; former DC Jobs with Justice Executive Director Nikki Cole previews Wages, Benefits, and Fair Pay: 20 Years of DC JWJ panel.
Plus: World premiere of Todd Smith's "Scabby the Rat and Fatty the Cat" song and the latest labor news headlines.

Washingtonian editorial staff organize
The editorial staff of Washingtonian magazine on Wednesday announced they're organizing with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and have asked management to recognize the union, the Washingtonian Guild. "We care too deeply about the future of our magazine and industry not to have a say in the decisions that shape them," the new union tweeted. "Collectively, we can ensure that Washingtonian will thrive for the next 56 years and beyond." Read more [link removed] here where there's also a letter of support you can send.

Historic MD strike commemorated
If you've waited 50 years, what's one more? On June 8, just over 51 years after the start of the longest public worker strike in U.S. history, a marker was erected on Route 135 in Garrett County, Maryland. The marker commemorating the 1970 Garrett County road workers strike was supposed to be installed last year but was postponed due to the pandemic. On April 7, 1970, 139 employees of the Garrett County Roads Department struck for recognition of their union, AFSCME. It took more than seven long months, but on November 19 the strike was finally settled. "We came together to honor men, women and families who refused to be divided and fought successfully to move Garrett County forward in 1970," said Len Shindel, coordinator of the [link removed] Garrett County Road Strike Historical Project. "This morning and in coming months and years, we need to continually ask ourselves if we are truly honoring the memory of those we commemorated by crossing our boundaries in the present to address the pressing need of working families in Garrett County for decent-paying jobs, affordable housing and the tools needed to win a stable future in an uncertain and challenging time." Read morehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/378388676285973/permalink/933902547401247/ here.
From left: Troy Wakefield, 1970 Garrett County Roads Strike participant; Larry Artice, Linda Tomblin and Lonnie Artice, children of active strike participant Ray Artice; Terry Rinker, son of strike leader and AFSCME Local 1834 president Calvin "Leo" Rinker, a WWII veteran wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. photo by Robin Summerfield.

Union Voice/Readers Write: The man on the line
"The guy on the far right ([link removed] Labor Photo: Who's On The Line? 6/24 UC) is Dan Duncan, former head of the NOVA CLC and Maritime Trades Department and of the Seafarers," said David Kameras (formerly UMWA, AFA, IBT, AFL-CIO, SIU). NNU's Korey Hartwich got it right as well.

Today's Labor Quote: Franklin Roosevelt

"There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations...to provide for the full and equitable participation of all workers in defense industries, without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin."

From Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802: On this date in 1941, at the urging of black labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, Franklin Roosevelt issues an executive order barring discrimination in defense industries.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Why America's most radical union shut down ports on Juneteenth. Last week's show: [link removed] Debs on capitalism; Dudzic on the Labor Party.

June 25

More than 8,000 people attend the dedication ceremony for The Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago (above), honoring those framed and executed for the bombing at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886 - 1893

Fair Labor Standards Act passes Congress, banning child labor and setting the 40-hour work week - 1938

Congress passes the Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act over Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's veto. It allows the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by strikes that would interfere with war production. It was hurriedly created after the third coal strike in seven weeks - 1943

21 workers are killed when a fireworks factory near Hallett, Okla. explodes - 1985

Decatur, Ill. police pepper-gas workers at A.E. Staley plant gate one year into the company's two and one-half year lockout of Paperworkers Local 7837 - 1994

June 26

Members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refuse to handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers. Two dozen strikers were killed over the course of the strike - 1894

June 27

Emma Goldman, women's rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 - 1869

The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies," is founded at a convention in Chicago. The Wobblie motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." - 1905

Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act, creating the structure for collective bargaining in the United States - 1935

A 26-day strike of New York City hotels by 26,000 workers - the first such walkout in 50 years - ends with a five-year contract calling for big wage and benefit gains - 1985

A.E. Staley locks out 763 workers in Decatur, Ill. The lockout was to last two and one-half years - 1993

- David Prosten

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