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TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily Coalition to Repeal "Right to Work": Fri, August 6, 7pm – 8pm CLICK HERE to listen to this week’s Your Rights At Work show: Labor historian Joe McCartin on the life and legacy of AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka, who died yesterday. PLUS: "I've Never Been More Optimistic": A Conversation with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, on the AFL-CIO's State of the Unions podcast. ![]() Labor legend Trumka passes away Teamsters 639 drivers ratify contract at Capitol Paving D.N.C. staff to join local union Today's Labor Quote: Rich Trumka 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. August 6 Workers at Verizon, the nation’s largest local telephone company, launch what is to become an 18-day strike over working conditions and union representation. 2000
August 7 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Wobblie organizer, born - 1890 Eugene Debs and three other trade unionists arrested after Pullman Strike - 1894 Actors Equity is recognized by producers after stagehands honor their picket lines, shutting down almost every professional stage production in the country. Before unionizing, it was common practice for actors to pay for their own costumes, rehearse long hours without pay, and be fired without notice - 1919 Television writers, members of both the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW), end a 22 week strike
August 8 Delegates to the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly elect 35-year-old Charles James, leader of the Boot and Shoe Workers local union, as their president. He was the first African-American elected to that leadership post in St. Paul, and, many believe, the first anywhere in the nation - 1902 Cripple Creek, Colo. miners strike begins - 1903 Cesar Chavez is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, becoming the first Mexican-American ever to receive the honor - 1994
August 9 Twenty people, including at least nine firefighters, are killed in Boston’s worst fire. It consumed 65 downtown acres and 776 buildings over 12 hours - 1872 Knights of Labor strike New York Central railroad, ultimately to be defeated by scabbing - 1890 Nine men and one woman meet in Oakland, Calif. to form what was to become the 230,000-member California School Employees Association, representing school support staff throughout the state - 1927 73,000 Bell Atlantic workers end a successful two-day strike over wages and limits on contracting out of work - 1998
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