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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
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Working In DC: Fri/Sat/Sun, September 10/11/12, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Solidarity rally with IATSE Local 868 at Strathmore: Sat, September 11, 6pm – 8pm
Strathmore ticket agents fighting for a fair contract have voted to authorize a strike. Meet on the 4th parking level of the Metro garage by the pedestrian walkway.
NoVA Labor on the line with striking bakers and barbers
A delegation from NoVA Labor visited two Richmond-area picket lines yesterday, BCTGM Local 358 striking Nabisco workers and LiUNA Local 572 striking Ft. Lee barbers. “We were inspired by the courageous workers,” said NoVA Labor president Ginny Diamond. “In standing up to corporate greed they are fighting for us all.” Virginia Delegate Josh Cole “gave a passionate speech in support of the workers,” Diamond added. Diamond, Cole and LiUNA’s Sonia Lozano appeared live on the Your Rights At Work radio show yesterday, which also featured new IUPAT president Jimmy Williams Jr. and State of the Unions podcast co-host Carolyn Bobb.
Solidarity Center Report: Bolt Delivery Drivers Strike in Ukraine after 50% Wage Cut
Bolt food delivery workers on strike in Ukraine daily face dangerous conditions but receive no income when they are injured and cannot work—and now face a 50 percent wage cut. Yet Bolt's founder Markus Willig is the third richest man in Estonia. “Transportation costs are the same, risks are the same, and money is half as much. It’s outrageous!” says Artem, a striking Bolt courier. Find out more at Solidarity Center.
Today's Labor Quote: Peter Marks
“No opera house phantom or hip-hop Founding Father populates this piece. The characters are all ordinary folks — nannies, firefighters, receptionists, truckers — singing about their daily routines and sacrifices.”
Marks is theater critic for the Washington Post, writing here about the “Working in DC” musical (see Calendar).
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.
September 10
Polish, Lithuanian and Slovak miners are gunned down—19 dead, more than 50 wounded—by the Lattimer Mine's sheriff deputies in Hazelton, Pa. Most were shot in the back. The miners (above) were marching peacefully and without weapons for collective bargaining and civil liberty - 1897
September 11
Some 75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia end a ten-week strike after winning an eight hour day, semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores, where they had been forced to shop. (Remember the song, "16 Tons," by coal miner’s son Merle Travis, in which there’s this line: "I owe my soul to the company store.") - 1897
More than 3,000 people died when suicide highjackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. Among the dead in New York were 634 union members, the majority of them New York City firefighters and police on the scene when the towers fell - 2001
Crystal Lee Sutton, the real-life Norma Rae of the movies, dies at age 68. She worked at a J.P. Stevens textile plant in Roanoke Rapids, N.C. when low pay and poor working conditions led her to become a union activist - 2009
September 12
Eugene V. Debs, labor leader and socialist, sentenced to 10 years for opposing World War I. While in jail Debs received 1 million votes for president - 1918
Jobless workers march on grocery stores and seize food in Toledo, Ohio - 1932
United Rubber Workers formed in Akron, Ohio - 1935
Forty-nine people are killed, 200 injured in explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey - 1940
New York City’s Union Square, the site of the first Labor Day in 1882, is officially named a national historic landmark. The square has long been a focal point for working class protest and political expression - 1998
- David Prosten.
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