Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

GMU Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, August 17, 3:30pm – 4:30pm

Coalition of faculty, students, alumni, employees and contract workers

NoVA Labor Volunteer Phone Bank: Tue, August 17, 6pm – 8pm

Calling fellow union members and reminding them about registering to vote and early voting opportunities.

Wednesdays with Warner for the PRO Act: Wed, August 18, 8:15am – 9:15am

Two locations: Outside the Senator's District Office, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna, at 8:30 am.; and the Coalition to Repeal Right to Work gathers at the picnic table at Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria at 8:15 am for breakfast and cake.

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, August 18, 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Meeting of union members and community allies in Alexandria.

Contact [email protected] for the link.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, August 19, 1pm – 2pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
This week's show: Episodes 6 & 7 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's Tales of the Resistance radio drama.

Baltimore Labor Council meeting Thu, August 19, 7pm – 9pm
Email for call-in details: [email protected]

Coalition to Repeal "Right to Work": Fri, August 20, 7pm – 8pm

Coalition of more than 50 groups that support the right of workers to organize unions.

CLICK HERE to listen to this week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Monday Morning QB; Belabored; Laborwave Radio; The State of Working America; Working People; Brazil Worker’s Podcast; SAG-AFTRA

Strathmore ticket sellers OK strike; no date set yet

Strathmore ticket sellers have unanimously authorized a strike after the local music venue unilaterally declared an impasse and implemented its latest contract offer earlier this month. No date for a strike has been set, reports IATSE 868 Business Agent Anne Vantine. Strathmore’s contract eliminates all full-time positions and would install kiosks which would limit the hours available for part-time workers. “We’ve filed a ULP for bad faith bargaining and for manufacturing an impasse that did not exist,” Vantine told Union City. “We want to continue to negotiate.”
photo: Last Friday’s Local 868 demonstration at Strathmore

Promoting Building Futures
DC City Council member Janeese Lewis George (Ward 4) joined Community Services Agency Executive Director Letycia Pastrana and CSA Building Futures Program contract job developer Keith Willis on August 12 as CSA’s Building Futures team attended the Ward 4 Job Fair to promote the Building Futures program’s merits and upcoming open enrollment. Find out more here.

Today's Labor Quote: Barack Obama

“Not everybody can stay home, and we owe a big debt of gratitude to health professionals, transit and airport workers, first responders, and everyone keeping our communities going.”

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Trumka on the future of American labor. Last week's show: Remembering Rich Trumka (1949-2021);

Union employees strike The Los Angeles Times in an unsuccessful attempt to unionize all staff. - 1883

IWW War Trials in Chicago, 95 go to prison for up to 20 years - 1918

Year-long Hormel meatpackers' strike begins in Austin, Minn. - 1985

- David Prosten

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