Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
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George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, August 3, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Coalition of faculty, students, alumni, campus employees, and contract workers at GMU.

Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, August 3, 5pm – 6pm

Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun County.

"Wednesdays with Warner" (now at 2 sites!): Wed, August 4, 8:15am – 9:15am

Alexandria and Vienna; The Painters Union will raise its banner outside the Senator's District Office, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna, at 8:30 am. Contact [email protected] for info. And the Coalition to Repeal Right to Work will continue for the 20th week to gather at the picnic table at Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria at 8:15 am.

Demo for UNITE HERE Local 7 workers at Sheraton Columbia: Wed, August 4, 11am – 12pm
10209 Wincopin Cir, Columbia, MD 21044

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, August 5, 1pm – 2pm

NoVA Labor Arts Union Caucus: Thu, August 5, 3pm – 4pm

NOTE: moved to Thursday this month.

Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, August 5, 6pm – 7pm

Meeting of union members and friends of labor in Arlington.

Coalition to Repeal "Right to Work": Fri, August 6, 7pm – 8pm
Coalition of more than 50 organizations that support the right of workers to organize unions.

CLICK HERE to listen to this week’s Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: Million Dollar Organizer; Speaking of Work; UCOMM Live; FairWork; Council 4 Unplugged; Union Strong; Labour Radio; Art and Labor.

"Strikes work": MetroAccess Call Center workers win 12% raises
Strikes work. That’s the message from ATU Local 689 after MetroAccess Call Center workers won 12% raises recently after striking back in April. “Let this be a warning to all MetroAccess contractors in this region,” said Raymond Jackson, Local 689 president and business agent. “Workers are sick and tired of being mistreated, disrespected, overworked, and underpaid,” said Jackson. “There isn’t a worker shortage in this country. There is a shortage of workers that are willing to put up with poverty wages. This,” Jackson promised, “is just the beginning.”

Labor Photo: UMD shuttle bus drivers protest
Fifty UMD shuttle bus drivers, union members of AFSCME Local 1072, students, faculty, and community members – including a contingent from the local Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) -- came together on July 28 to protest unsafe buses, cutting routes, exclusion of university staff from pandemic hazard pay, and management negligence.
- photo by Carl Goldman

Today's Labor Quote: Tonia White

“We’ve been fighting for so long to be heard. I’m proud of what we won. By striking we showed MV Transportation and this whole region that we were serious.”

Tonia White is an MV Call Center worker and shop leader for the union there.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Keokuk before the strike. Last week's show: Indigenous Longshoremen & the I.W.W.

Uriah Smith Stephens born in Cape May, NJ. A tailor by trade, in 1869 he led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor - 1821

15,000 air traffic controllers strike. President Reagan threatens to fire any who do not return to work within 48 hours, saying they "have forfeited their jobs" if they do not. Most stay out, and are fired August 5 - 1981

Florence Reece dies in Knoxville, Tenn. at 86. She was a Mine Workers union activist and author of "Which Side Are You On?", written after her home was ransacked by Harlan County county sheriff J.H. Blair and his thugs during a 1931 strike - 1986

- David Prosten

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