Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

Prince William County Labor Caucus
Mon, September 27, 7pm – 8pm
Meeting for PWC union members and community allies.

Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting

Tue, September 28, 5pm – 7pm
RSVP here.

NoVA Volunteer Phone Bank

Tue/Wed, September 28/29, 6pm – 8pm

We will be calling fellow union members about this important election! Post cards and lit are available for pick up at the NoVA Labor office.
For more info contact Bob Zabel. [email protected]. 317-489-2501

Tri-County COPE

Tue, September 28, 7pm – 9pm

WEBINAR: Hilton Hotels is Playing Dirty with its Housekeepers
Wed, September 29, 2pm – 3pm
Did you know that Hilton is using COVID-19 as an opportunity to end daily housekeeping and eliminate housekeepers’ jobs? It’s a dirty trick. The hotel chain is telling CUSTOMERS that routine daily room cleaning has been eliminated due to the pandemic, while telling INVESTORS that this is the new normal that will enable the hotels to boost profits by permanently eliminating jobs. But YOU can help. To find out how, join us for this short, one-hour webinar.
PRESENTERS: Carrie Sallgren, UNITE HERE; Susan Galicha, Housekeeper, Hilton Hawaiian Village (and St Joseph's parishioner); Clayton Sinyai, Catholic Labor Network
CLICK TO REGISTER

Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus

Wed, September 29, 7pm – 8pm

Meeting of Fairfax County union members and friends of labor.
Special guest Julie Hunter, Virginia AFL-CIO Political Director, will speak about the elections.

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus

Wed, September 29, 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Meeting of Alexandria union members and friends of labor.
Contact [email protected] for the link.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work

Thu, September 30, 1pm – 2pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.

Womxn’s Labor Leadership Symposium 2021

Sep 30 – Oct 1, 2021
Online, registration fees; register here.

KI Fall Open House
Thu, September 30, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Dahlgren Quad, Georgetown University (map)
Optional RSVP via Facebook

NATCA Sponsored Member-to-Member Lit Drop Walk

Sat, October 2, 9am – 1pm

Come to NoVA Labor for a member-to-member lit drop rally. NATCA's AnneMarie Sullivan will sing the National Anthem!
Due to covid precautions we will gather outdoors and we will not be serving lunch. Individually wrapped breakfast snacks and water will be provided.
4536 John Marr Drive, Annandale.
Questions contact Bob Zabel. [email protected] 317-489-2501

Missed last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here: Sneak attack on worker rights; Oreo’s OK again; Womxn’s Labor Leadership Symposium.

Six months on strike, UWMA members standing strong
It has been six months since the Mine Workers (UMWA) went on strike against Warrior Met Coal. Warrior operates two mines, a preparation plant and a central shop, located in the heart of Alabama, 15 miles east of Tuscaloosa. The UMWA represents about 850 workers at these facilities. In 2016, due to a series of questionable management decisions, Walter Energy filed for bankruptcy. But the workers decided to save their company, preserve their jobs and their communities by sacrificing wages, time off from work, loss of overtime pay and an end to full health care coverage. Their sacrifices totaled $1.1 billion over five years in cost savings and helped the company reach revenues in excess of $4.3 billion. The UMWA said the result of these sacrifices and an unheard-of financial comeback for the company was Warrior’s blatant mistreatment of its workers, forcing them to work most holidays and complete 12-hour shifts reaching up to seven days a week. “What Warrior Met has offered is just a tiny fraction of what the workers gave up five years ago,” said UMWA President Cecil Roberts. Click here to read a full recap of the strike and how union members and our communities are joining together to win a fair contract.
- Kenneth Quinnell and Aaron Gallant, AFL-CIO Now blog

Trumka photos posted
Photographer Bruce Guthrie has posted his photos of Richard Trumka’s last trip to the AFL-CIO on August 14. They’re free for non-commercial use with attribution, and if you recognize specific people (or other things) in the pictures which he hasn’t labeled, please identify them or fill in any other descriptions you can. Just click the little pencil icon underneath the file name (just above the picture). You can also click here for a slideshow version.

Today's Labor Quote: Cecil Roberts

“These workers are tired of being mistreated, they are tired of being forced to work and missing time with their families. Warrior Met knows it is exploiting these workers, and it’s time for it to stop.”

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Feathers and Pennies - the 1888 Matchgirls and us. Last week's show: Rich Trumka on “Art is why they remember our struggles.”

Striking textile workers in Fall River, Mass. demand bread for their starving children - 1875

The International Typographical Union renews a strike against the Los Angeles Times and begins a boycott that runs intermittently from 1896 to 1908. A local anti-Times committee in 1903 persuades William Randolph Hearst to start a rival paper, the Los Angeles Examiner. Although the ITU kept up the fight into the 1920s, the Times remains nonunion to this day - 1893

International Ladies' Garment Workers Union begins strike against Triangle Shirtwaist Co. This would become the "Uprising of the 20,000," resulting in 339 of 352 struck firms—but not Triangle—signing agreements with the union. The Triangle fire that killed 246 would occur less than two years later - 1909

Twenty-nine west coast ports lock out 10,500 workers in response to what management says is a worker slowdown in the midst of negotiations on a new contract. The ports are closed for 10 days, reopen when Pres. George W. Bush invokes the Taft-Hartley Act - 2002

- David Prosten.

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