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Solidarity Center Podcast: Colombia Workers Risk Lives for Better Future

Today's Labor Quote

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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work

Thu, September 16, 1pm - 2pm

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Hosts: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893
Guests: Jacob Rosenberg, Mother Jones editor on the new [link removed] BAD BOSSES series; Johnny Jones, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFGE TSA Council on the [link removed] TSA Petition to Secure Title 5 Rights; James Benton, director of the [link removed] Race and Economic Empowerment Project at Georgetown's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, on the 9/22 [link removed] Affordable Housing in DC During (and after) the Pandemic panel discussion.
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Labor on the Bimah: Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
Thu, September 16, 2:45pm - 4:45pm
Virtual service; [link removed] Details here

Labor on the Bimah: Am Kolel and Kehila Chadasha, Montgomery County

Thu, September 16, 4:45pm - 6:45pm

Virtual service; [link removed] Details here

Baltimore Labor Council meeting

Thu, September 16, 7pm - 9pm
Email for call-in details: mailto:[email protected] [email protected]

[link removed] NoVA Labor monthly meeting

Thu, September 16, 7pm - 9pm

Agenda includes: strike updates from our affiliates at Nabisco, Ft. Lee Barbers and Warrior Met; shocking news from our newest affiliate, Workers United, about Starbuck's unprecedented actions to crush organizing; comments from labor-endorsed candidates; and updates on immigration reform efforts, ongoing efforts to get Senator Warner to sign the PRO Act, public sector collective bargaining, union-busting at Strathmore, and more.

Working In DC (musical based on Studs Terkel best-seller)

Thu, September 16, 7:30pm - 9:00pm

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

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

"We're ready to fight for our patients and all health care workers"
"After months of stalling by Kaiser Permanente negotiators, scheduled national bargaining sessions ended on Friday, September 10th," [link removed] reports UFCW 400. "Because of management's approach, these negotiations are in serious trouble - unlike anything our Alliance unions have experienced with Kaiser Permanente since the 1990's," said Alliance chief negotiator Hal Ruddick. "Unless management dramatically changes course, this conflict will continue to escalate. The Alliance is united, strong, and ready to stand up for our members and our patients." Said Local 400, "We are united, determined, and ready to win a good contract, and defend our patients and the organization we have built. We will take a stand for our patients, co-workers, and all healthcare workers."

Working in DC: extra tix available!
NoVA Labor has extra tickets for Saturday night's performance of Working in DC, which will feature NoVA Labor president Ginny Diamond and AFA president Sara Nelson honoring Virginia Congressman Don Beyer before the show. [link removed] Click here to reserve your tickets now; they're free but donations are welcome. There are a limited number of tickets available for this second-to-last performance, so it's first come, first served.

Solidarity Center Podcast: Colombia Workers Risk Lives for Better Future
In Colombia, a coalition of workers, Black & Indigenous communities, environmentalists and young people stood strong against state repression--including illegal detention, torture and the use of lethal weapons--and won key victories while setting the stage for future gains. On the latest episode of The Solidarity Center Podcast, Francisco Maltés, president of the Unitary Workers Center (CUT), describes how the coalition achieved success and is now defining an agenda centered on issues that benefit workers and all Colombians. Listen to the full episode at [link removed] The Solidarity Center Podcast.

Today's Labor Quote: Noah Lanard and Jacob Rosenberg

"This is a series about jerks, blowhards, racists, creeps, narcs, petty tyrants, tenured incompetents, passive-aggressive underminers, Taylorist fussbudgets, Pinkertonish snoops, pious liberal union-killers, and sneering capitalist dickheads, which is to say it is a series about bosses. Maybe even your boss."

Noah Lanard and Jacob Rosenberg are the Mother Jones editors who compiled the stories in the new [link removed] Bad Bosses series. Rosenberg will discuss the series on the Your Rights At Work radio show today at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

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

400 Chinese, Portuguese and local field hands, along with 125 Paiute Indians, struck the Pleasanton Hop Company in one of the largest and earliest, though unsuccessful, interracial strikes in California agriculture. - 1893

More than 43,000 oil workers strike in 20 states, part of the post-war strike wave - 1945

A player lockout by the National Hockey League begins, leading to cancellation of what would have been the league's 88th season. The lockout, over owner demands that salaries be capped, lasted 310 days - 2004

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee wins a signed contract with the Mount Olive Pickle Co. and growers, ending a five-year boycott. The agreement marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers - 2004

Richard Trumka is elected president of the AFL-CIO at the federation's convention in Pittsburgh. He had served as the secretary-treasurer under predecessor John Sweeney from 1995 to 2009, and prior to that was president of the United Mine Workers for 13 years - 2009

- David Prosten.

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