LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15a M-F; WPFW-FM 89.3
UAW strike picket: weekdays, 6am – 2pm
GM White-Marsh transmission plant, 10301 Philadelphia Road, White Marsh, MD
(Contract ratification vote set for this Friday)
Metro Washington Council Delegate Meeting: Mon, October 21, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
NoVA Retiree Phone Bank and Meeting: Wed, October 23, 12pm – 3pm
4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale, VA ; Retiree Phone Bank and Meeting: Phones Noon to 2, Meeting 2:00 -3:00
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, October 23, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
618 N Washington St, Alexandria, VA 22314
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, October 24, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Jennifer Carroll Foy Labor Happy Hour (NoVA Labor); Rescheduled! Thu, October 24, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Hopsfrog Grille 6030 L-1 Burke Commons Road, Burke, VA
27th Annual Joseph L. Rauh Jr. Lecture : Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO: Thu, October 24, 6pm – 8pm
University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Moot Court Room 4340 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008
Testify at Committee on Health Hearing: Fri, October 25, 11am – 5pm
Room 412, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004
Contact: Yvonne Slosarski; [email protected]
Health Justice Coalition urges DC residents to testify at Council Health Committee hearingAfter the DC City Council cut over half of United Medical Center’s funding, members of the DC Health Justice Coalition organized and won $22 million temporarily, “but we need to win more,” says DCNA’s Wala Blegay. The Coalition is urging DC residents to testify for more funding for the only hospital East of the River at the October 25 DC City Council Committee on Health Hearing; click here to sign up by October 23. “We must get additional funding or the amount drops back to $15 million next year, meaning more cuts to services and jobs,” says Blegay. “We need high-quality, full-service care in Wards 7 & 8 now and into the future.” Text "TESTIFY" to 202-495-0885 for more info.
MD AFL-CIO Biennial Convention coming upThe Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO 32nd Biennial Convention is coming up Sunday, November 17 –Tuesday, November 19 at the Maryland Live! Casino & Hotel in Hanover, MD. "Please register early, November is fast approaching!" urges the state fed. If your Council/local hasn't received credentials to attendcall 410-269-1940 or email [email protected].
Today's Labor Quote: Merle Travis
Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew danger is double pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
From "Dark as a Dungeon," written by Travis, who died on October 20, 1983
Today's Labor History
Labor History Today (10/20): Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Robbin Légère Henderson talks about her grandmother, Matilda Rabinowitz Robbins, on the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. Henderson shares stories from Robbins’ autobiography, Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century, explaining how the optimism of a 13-year-old immigrant from the Ukraine was soon undone by the realities of working in garment sweatshops on the East Coast, leading to Matilda Robbins’ brief but influential role as a labor organizer for the International Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917. She was one of only two women organizers for the IWW during its early years, along with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Plus a clip from Mother Jones In Heaven, a one-woman musical by Si Kahn, starring Vivian Nesbitt as “Mother” Jones, with musical accompaniment by John Dillon, recently performed at The Robin Theatre in Lansing, Michigan.
Last week's show: (10/13/19): Reconciling a Slaveholding Past
Wisconsin dairy farmers began the third major milk strike of the year. During the Great Depression, many dairy farmers were driven into poverty. -1933
Labor history courtesy David Prosten; photo courtesy Wisconsin Historical Images
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