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

#CareCantWait Power Up to #BuildBackBetter with Care gathering: Thu, October 21, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Union Square on the west side of the Capitol lawn off 3rd Street SW, between Constitution Ave NW and Independence Ave SW; and near the Capitol Reflecting Pool. (map)
Co-sponsored by the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW); your voice, presence, and power are urgently needed in DC to show that child care, paid family and medical leave, home- and community-based services, extending the Child Tax Credit expansion, living wages, and a path to citizenship for care workers can’t wait! These policies are job enabling and job creating. They boost our economy and our families, and we need them now!

Online Forum: Workers Challenging Private Equity to Create Good Jobs: Thu, October 21, 1:00pm – 2:30pm

The Private Equity Stakeholder Project and the Cornell ILR Worker Institute invite you to an online forum that will feature workers employed by private equity-owned companies, speaking about how they are standing up and fighting for good jobs.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, October 21, 1pm – 2pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
Guests: MWC president Dyana Forester on "Ending Violence in Our DC Communities," LCLAA's Xochitl Cobarruvias on Latina Equal Pay Day & sportswriter Dave Zirin on how the National Women’s Soccer League players are showing their power.

Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, October 21, 7pm – 9pm

Email for call-in details: [email protected]

DC Jobs with Justice 20th Anniversary I'll Be There Awards: Thu, October 21, 7pm – 9pm

Ticket info here.

NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, October 21, 7pm – 9pm

Zoom; see above for link.

The agenda includes strike and organizing updates; report from the Women's Professional Soccer League Players Association; international solidarity programs with unions in Mexico and Myanmar; PRO Act campaign, and more. Terry McAuliffe plans to stop by to remind us what is at stake in this election for workers, and Rep. Don Beyer will update us on what is happening in Congress with the Build Back Better agenda.
NoVA Labor monthly meetings are open to all friends of labor.

(Finally) Latina Equal Pay Day
Today is Latina Equal Pay Day. Last year, a typical Latina worker who worked full-time, year-round earned only 57 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men. This means that Latinas on average must work nearly 22 months to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earn in 12 months. Not only are Latina workers earning less, they are also experiencing higher unemployment from the pandemic-driven economic downturn as a result of being heavily concentrated in the leisure and hospitality industry, which was hardest hit by job losses. “It is incumbent upon policymakers to ensure a strong and equitable recovery and equal pay for Latina workers,” write Emily Carew and Valerie Wilson on EPI’s Working Economics Blog.

AFM celebrates 125 years of fighting for working musicians
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) marked its’ 125th anniversary on Wednesday. In the 125 years since its inception , the AFM has had one goal: to elevate, protect and advance the interests of all musicians who receive pay for their musical services. It was an evolutionary act of organizing that gathered musician leaders in Parlor 35 of the Hotel English in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Oct. 19, 1896. For centuries before, musicians struggled to make a living. While technology and the state of the music industry has changed, the AFM’s mission has not. There have been many challenges and even some defeats along the way, but the AFM has been unwavering in its dedication to working musicians everywhere. The labor movement congratulates the AFM on its 125th anniversary.
- Adapted from the AFL-CIO Daily Brief

Today's Labor Quote: Merle Travis

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Songwriter and performer Merle Travis wrote "Sixteen Tons" & "Dark as a Dungeon"; he died on October 20, 1983.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: “It Didn’t Start with Amazon: A Conversation About the History of Organized Labor in the South.” Last week's show: The Battle of Virden .

In an attempt to raise the price of milk, Wisconsin dairy farmers begin the third major milk strike of the year in the state. During the Great Depression, farmers who produced milk for bottling were able to remain solvent, but those who produced milk for cheese, butter, and other uses were driven into poverty.

- David Prosten.

Material published in UNION CITY may be freely reproduced by any recipient; please credit Union City as the source.

Published by the Metropolitan Washington Council, an AFL-CIO "Union City" Central Labor Council whose 200 affiliated union locals represent 150,000 area union members.

Story suggestions, event announcements, campaign reports, Letters to the Editor and other material are welcome, subject to editing for clarity and space; just click on the mail icon below. You can also reach us on Facebook and Twitter by clicking on those icons.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that [email protected] signed up to receive this newsletter. Click here to edit your subscription preferences