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NoVA Labor Delegation to Richmond Strikes - Bakery Workers and LiUNA: Thu, September 9, 11:30am – 4:00pm
Nabisco Picket Line - Richmond - 11:30 am - 6002 Laburnum Ave., Varina, VA (BCTGM)
Fort Lee Barber Picket Line - Ft. Lee - 2:30 pm - Hopewell, VA (LiUNA)
RSVP: [email protected]; CLICK HERE to contribute to the Nabisco strike fund.
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, September 9, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
Today's guests: New IUPAT president Jimmy Williams Jr., new State of the Unions podcast co-host Carolyn Bobb and NoVA Labor Ginny Diamond with a live report from the Richmond strike picket lines.
Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, September 9, 6pm – 7pm
No Globalization without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality
Thu, September 9, 4:00pm – 5:15pm
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Worker Rights Consortium invite you to a virtual conversation and book talk:
Register Here
Coalition to Repeal Right to Work: Fri, September 10, 7pm – 8pm
Union Night at Camden Yards: Orioles vs. Toronto Blue Jays: Fri, September 10, 7:05pm – 11:00pm
Sponsored by the Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO. Tickets $12 each; email [email protected].
Working In DC: Fri/Sat/Sun, September 10/11/12, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 Black Lives Matter Plz NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Native Women’s Equal Pay Day
“Today is #NativeWomensEqualPay Day,” tweeted the NewsGuild-CWA yesterday (retweeted by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild). “Native women must work ~9 months into 2021 to catch up to the 2020 earnings of white men. Pay disparities are rampant, including in the news industry. We demand #EqualPay.”
Artist: Ernesto Yerena
Labor On The Move: Heidi Shierholz named EPI president
The Economic Policy Institute’s Board of Directors has selected Heidi Shierholz to serve as EPI’s new president. “As president, I will strengthen EPI’s ability to wield the power of its research and expertise to win real reforms that lead to economic justice for workers, racial justice, and gender equity,” said Shierholz. An EPI labor economist from 2007 to 2014 before joining the Obama administration in 2014 as chief economist at the Department of Labor, Shierholz returned to EPI in 2017 to lead its policy team and has been a strong advocate for the PRO Act. Read more here.
“Working in DC” run continues this weekend
If you missed last weekend’s previews and Opening Night for the “Working in DC” musical, no worries, the show runs Friday through Sunday this weekend. Click here for tickets (free but contributions encouraged). “No opera house phantom or hip-hop Founding Father populates this piece,” wrote Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks. “The characters are all ordinary folks — nannies, firefighters, receptionists, truckers — singing about their daily routines and sacrifices.” “We are trying to invent something that isn’t just a show and is celebrating the working class,” artistic producer and director Shanara Gabrielle told the Post.
Today's Labor Quote: Jimmy Williams Jr.
"The labor movement is the bridge to all other movements. If there's not rights at the workplace, if there's not a freedom to collectively bargain in this country, then we can't go forward."
Williams (below) is the new president of the Painters and Allies Trades union. Tune in to WPFW 89.3FM at 1p today to hear him on the Your Rights At Work show.
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Battle of Blair Mountain; Remembering Ed Asner. Last week's show: Marching on Washington: civil rights to voting rights.
In convention at Topeka, Kansas, delegates create the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America. The men who repaired the nation's rail cars were paid 10 or 15 cents an hour, working 12 hours a day, often seven days a week - 1890
More than 1,000 Boston police officers strike after 19 union leaders are fired for organizing activities. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge announced that none of the strikers would be rehired, mobilized the state police, and recruited an entirely new police force from among unemployed veterans of the Great War (World War I) - 1919
Sixteen striking Filipino sugar workers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai are killed by police; four police died as well. Many of the surviving strikers were jailed, then deported - 1924
- David Prosten.
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