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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily Missed last 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; 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. Courts block Hogan’s attempt to cut off UI ![]() Today's Labor Quote: The New York Times Rail union leader Eugene V. Debs was arrested on this date in 1894 during the Pullman strike, which involved a quarter of a million workers in 27 states at its peak, and which was described by The Times as "a struggle between the greatest and most important labor organization and the entire railroad capital." ![]() TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Memphis Fire Fighter Strike of 1978. Last week’s show: Marvel Cooke, a Journalist for Working People. photo source: WMC Action News 5. Two strikers and a bystander are killed, 30 seriously wounded by police in Duluth, Minn. The workers, mostly immigrants building the city’s streets and sewers, struck after contractors reneged on a promise to pay $1.75 a day - 1889 Two barges, loaded with Pinkerton thugs hired by the Carnegie Steel Co., landed on the south bank of the Monongahela River in Homestead, Penn. seeking to occupy Carnegie Steel Works and put down a strike by members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers - 1892
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