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Rally for Union Workers and the “American Jobs Plan”: Tue, June 29, 12pm – 2pm
Third Street SW between Madison Dr. and Jefferson Dr.• National Mall, Washington, DC 20016 (map)
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Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, June 29, 5pm – 7pm
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Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, June 29, 5pm – 7pm

Meeting for union members and community allies in Loudoun County

Film: Who Killed Vincent Chin? Tue, June 29, 6pm – 8pm

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Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Tue, June 29, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Meeting for union members and community allies in Alexandria.
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Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, June 30, 7pm – 9pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Fairfax County. There will be a discussion of public employee collective bargaining with Taylor Holland, chief of staff to Chair Jeff McKay.

Missed last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. 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.

BF grads off to a good start
"You now have the tools to start a whole new life,” Darnell Goings told the latest group of graduates from the Community Services Agency's Building Futures (BF) Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Program last Friday. Goings (photo), a BF graduate, is now an apprentice with Operating Engineers Local 77. “There will be bad days for sure,” Going said, “but if you keep on forging ahead, you can support yourself and your family with these great jobs and careers in the construction industry." Students earned certifications in scaffolding, flagging, CPR and First Aid and OSHA 10, and received hands-on training with tools and equipment, and site visits to Museum Place in SW. CSA Client Services and BF Coordinator Sylvia Casaro Dietert reported that seven of the newly-minted graduates have already been offered on-the-job training positions. The 5-week program was a special partnership between CSA, ANC 6D, LOWE, Ward 6 Councilman Charles Allen's Office and DC Department of Parks and Recreation, which provided funding and program support.
photo by Sylvia Casaro Dietert

Retro Labor: 1988
Photo of Folkworks Saul Schniderman discovered in an AFSCME songbook (1988). Left to right: Saul, David Sawyer and Carol Hausner. The original group was founded in 1975 by Carl Goldman to support the Washington Post Pressmen's Strike.
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Today's Labor Quote: Franklin D. Roosevelt

From the Executive Order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he established the National Labor Relations Board on this date in 1934:

"By preventing practices which tend to destroy the independence of labor, it seeks, for every worker with its scope, that freedom of choice and action which is justly his."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Marvel Cooke, a Journalist for Working People. Last week’s show: Why America’s most radical union shut down ports on Juneteenth.

What is to be a 7-day streetcar strike begins in Chicago after several workers are unfairly fired. Wrote the police chief at the time, describing the strikers’ response to scabs: "One of my men said he was at the corner of Halsted and Madison Streets, and although he could see fifty stones in the air, he couldn't tell where they were coming from." The strike was settled to the workers’ satisfaction - 1885

IWW strikes Weyerhauser and other Idaho lumber camps - 1936

Jesus Pallares, founder of the 8,000-member coal miners union, Liga Obrera de Habla Esanola, is deported as an "undesirable alien." The union operated in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado - 1936

- David Prosten

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