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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, July 1, 1pm – 2pm
Missed this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. This week's show: The American Postal Workers Union is celebrating its’ 50th birthday today; Postal Workers president Mark Dimondstein reports on how his union is still fighting for postal worker rights. PLUS: the Hero Pay bill in DC City Council…Your Rights at Work and the New Minimum Wage webinar…the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Michael Gene Sullivan previews the Mime Troupe’s brand-new radio drama, “Tales Of The Resistance, Volume 2: Persistence,” and the Labor411 on which franks are kosher for a union-made Independence Day. ![]() Metro Council urges passage of Hero Pay Act SEIU 722 members approve contract at WHC Union Voice/Readers Write: Kosher…and union . Today's Labor Quote: William Faulkner “Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” ![]() 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. July 2 President Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion - 1964
July 3 Children, employed in the silk mills in Paterson, N.J., went on strike for 11-hour day and 6-day week. A compromise settlement resulted in a 69-hour work work week - 1835
July 4 Albert Parsons joins the Knights of Labor. He later became an anarchist and was one of the Haymarket martyrs - 1876 AFL dedicates its new Washington, D.C. headquarters building at 9th St. and Massachusetts Ave. NW. The building, still standing, later became headquarters for Plumbers and Pipefitters - 1916 Five newspaper boys from the Baltimore Evening Sun died when the steamer they were on, the Three Rivers, caught fire near Baltimore, Md. They are remembered every year at a West Baltimore cemetery, toasted by former staffers of the now-closed newspaper - 1924
July 5 During a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, which had drastically reduced wages, buildings constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson park were set ablaze, reducing seven to ashes - 1894
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