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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, September 16, 1pm – 2pm

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Labor on the Bimah: Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation: Thu, September 16, 2:45pm – 4:45pm

Virtual service; Details here.

Labor on the Bimah: Am Kolel and Kehila Chadasha, Montgomery County: Thu, September 16, 4:45pm – 6:45pm

Virtual service; Details here.

Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, September 16, 7pm – 9pm
Email for call-in details: [email protected]

NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, September 16, 7pm – 9pm

Working In DC: Thu-Sun, September 16-19, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

AFL-CIO, 815 Black Lives Matter Plz NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx

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Union City Radio's Labor Day show: On the Line at the Warrior Met & Nabisco strikes & The people speak on the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Ft. Lee barber strike enters 3rd month
Fifteen army barbers have been on strike since July 4th at Ft. Lee in Hopewell, VA. “The contractor hired by the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), Sheffield Barbers, is destroying the livelihoods of these union members -- including vets -- by cutting their pay and trying to bust the union,” reports NoVA Labor president Virginia Diamond. Click here to sign the petition and here to contribute to their strike fund. photo: striking barbers on the line September 9; photo courtesy Virginia Diamond

In Memoriam: BCTGM’s Ray Scannell
Ray Scannell, 70, died August 4 following a long illness. A fierce and tireless advocate for the rights of working people, he devoted most of his career to the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco, and Grain Millers Intern'l Union (BCTGM), where he rose to the rank of Director of Research and Education. His creativity and brilliance as theorist, strategist, and teacher helped shape a generation of union stewards, organizers, negotiators, and leaders at BCTGM and other labor unions. Deeply involved in his community, he wore many volunteer hats, including Commissioner of the Takoma Park Babe Ruth Baseball League. Family and friends plan a celebration of his life in the Washington, DC area this fall. Read more here.

Today's Labor Quote: Marty Walsh

"You need to do that, you need to do the striking… I think that's all important."

Walsh, Secretary of Labor, on the latest State of the Unions podcast.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

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.

The Post Office Department orders 25,000 railway mail clerks to shoot to kill any bandits attempting to rob the mail - 1926

Eleven AFSCME-represented prison employees, 33 inmates die in the four-day uprising at New York State’s Attica Prison and the retaking of the prison. The uprising caused the nation to take a closer look at prison conditions, for inmates and their guards alike - 1971

- David Prosten.

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