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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 15, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, July 15, 7pm – 9pm
NoVA Labor Monthly Meeting: Thu, July 15, 7pm – 8pm The agenda will include presentations by Virginia AFL-CIO President Doris Crouse-Mays, AFL-CIO Political Director Julie Hunter, and NATCA's Bob Zabel and John Carr on Labor's 2021 political program. We will also hear updates on the strikes at Volvo and Met Warrior, and from union representatives of our women's professional soccer team, Washington Spirit. NoVA Labor meetings are open and take place every third Thursday at 7 pm except in August. 'Who Killed Vincent Chin?' and 'Complicit' - Free On-Demand Screenings 7/16-7/18
Multi-employer Job Fair (sponsored by UNITE HERE Local 7): Fri, July 16, 12:00pm – 4:30pm
Good Trouble: DC Candlelight Vigil for Democracy: Sat, July 17, 8pm – 10pm Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest, Black Lives Matter Plz NW, Washington, DC, USA (map) Understanding AAPI Hate: Building A Movement of Solidarity and Resistance: Sun, July 18, 7pm – 8pm In connection with 'Who Killed Vincent Chin?' and 'Complicit' - Free On-Demand Screenings 7/16-7/18 Click here to check out the latest Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio/Podcast Network. Teamsters 639 ready to strike Capitol Paving ![]() Census janitors protest layoffs, cutbacks DC workers demand Hero Pay ![]() “Good Trouble” vigil for democracy ![]() CORRECTION: Expanded federal UI benefits are currently slated to end Sept 6, not mid-October, as originally reported (MD WORKERS NOTCH ANOTHER WIN IN UI FIGHT, 7/14 UC) Today's Labor Quote: Thomas Lee TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Dramatizing The Murals. The Memphis Fire Fighter Strike of 1978. Last week’s show: The Memphis Fire Fighter Strike of 1978. July 15 Robert Gray, an African-American sharecropper and leader of the Share Croppers Union, is murdered in Cap Hill, Alabama - 1931
Twenty-one writers for Lovestruck, a mobile app that publishes visual romance novels, go on strike against owner Voltage Entertainment USA for better wages and conditions. Three weeks later the company and the workers’ union CODE, an arm of the Communications Workers of America, announce a settlement that includes “a meaningful pay raise for every single writer” and other workplace gains. 2020
July 16 Martial law declared in strike by longshoremen in Galveston, Texas - 1920
San Francisco Longshoreman's strike spreads, becomes four-day general strike - 1934
July 17 Two ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny - 1944
July 18 35,000 Chicago stockyard workers strike - 1919
Hospital workers win 113-day union recognition strike in Charleston, S.C. - 1969
July 19 Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Delegates adopt a Declaration of Women's Rights and call for women's suffrage - 1848
An amendment to the 1939 Hatch Act, a federal law whose main provision prohibits federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity, is amended to also cover state and local employees whose salaries include any federal funds - 1940
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