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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily Rally for Union Workers and the “American Jobs Plan”: Tue, June 29, 12pm – 2pm Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, June 29, 5pm – 7pm
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 RSVP to [email protected].
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Tue, June 29, 7:30pm – 9:00pm Meeting for union members and community allies in Alexandria. 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 ![]() Retro Labor: 1988 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
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