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DC COPE meeting: CANCELLED: Tue, September 14

George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, September 14, 3:30pm – 5:00pm

NoVA Labor Member to member Phone Bank: Tue, September 14, 6pm – 8pm

Bread & Roses (on hiatus): Tue, September 14

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

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

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Union City Radio's Annual Labor Day show (final hour): Behind the scenes at Working in DC, The Musical.

TSOs: underpaid, overworked and understaffed
"When most people think of the TSA, they think of long lines at the airport, separating their liquids, taking off their shoes, and emptying their pockets before walking through a body scanner," said AFGE president Everett Kelley in a recent op-ed in The Hill. "When I think of the TSA, I think of a workforce that is underpaid, overworked, understaffed, and struggling to keep up with demand." This year marks twenty years since TSA was created to protect the flying public. But TSOs still don’t have the workplace rights they deserve. "Even though TSOs are federal employees, they aren’t subject to the same law as most federal workers, Title 5." AFGE is urging support for TSOs by taking action today to urge support for the Rights for the TSA Workforce Act.

CSA launches Holiday Basket Program

The holidays may seem a long way off but “it’s never too soon to begin planning for the annual Holiday Basket Program,” says Community Services Agency Executive Director Letycia Pastrana. “This program provides support to needy union and community families for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays,” says Pastrana. Local unions and community members can support the program by donating gift cards and grocery store cards from union grocers like Giant and Safeway to CSA. "The need is great this year because of the economic hardship COVID-19 is causing," says Pastrana. Local unions and CSA partners may also adopt needy families for the Christmas holidays. “Together we can do great things!” For more information email [email protected] or call 678-429-8174.

Today's Labor Quote: Robert F. Kennedy

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Live from The Battle of Blair Mountain! Last week's show: The Battle of Blair Mountain; Remembering Ed Asner.

Gastonia, N.C. textile mill striker and songwriter Ella Mae Wiggins, 29, the mother of nine, is killed when local vigilantes, thugs and a sheriff's deputy force the pickup truck in which she is riding off the road and begin shooting - 1929

A striker is shot by a bog owner (and town elected official) during a walkout by some 1,500 cranberry pickers, members of the newly-formed Cape Cod Cranberry Pickers Union Local 1. State police were called, more strikers were shot and 64 were arrested. The strike was lost – 1933

- David Prosten.

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