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Local postal workers honored on 20th anniversary of their deaths

Podcast: Jordan Agricultural Workers Win Rights@Work

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for the complete NoVA Labor election activity calendar listings thru Election Day (11/2)! photo: AFGE President Dr. Everett Kelley, District 14 NVP Ottis Johnson Jr, and Randy Erwin (NFFE Pres.) all spoke at Saturday's canvas, along with VA Delegates Kathy Tran and Karrie Delaney. UFCW Local 400 provided the refreshments. There were more than 100 people who came out to knock doors. - report/photo courtesy Ginny Diamond.

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Your Rights At Work radio show? [link removed] Catch the podcast here. This week's show: Xochitl Cobarruvias (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement LA chapter chair) onhttps://www.latinaequalpay.org/ Latina Equal Pay Day; sportwriter Dave Zirin on the recenthttps://cincylink.com/2021/10/08/nwsl-players-pause-games-in-protest-over-paul-riley-allegations/ strike by women's soccer players.

Local postal workers honored on 20th anniversary of their deaths

Last Thursday, postal workers Joseph Curseen, Jr. and Thomas Morris, Jr. were remembered on the 20th anniversary of their deaths. Curseen and Morris, members of APWU's Nation's Capital and Southern MD Local, died from anthrax inhalation while working at the Postal Service processing facility in Brentwood that's now named for them. "Their loss is felt especially now, 20 years later," said DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, noting that Postal Service workers are facing COVID-19 risks to deliver necessities to DC residents and people throughout the United States. As she does every year, Norton reintroduced a resolution honoring Curseen, Morris and the other victims of the anthrax attacks, as well as all Postal Service employees for their dedicated service to the nation.


Podcast: Jordan Agricultural Workers Win Rights@Work

Worldwide, agricultural workers have few rights on the job. The latest Solidarity Center Podcast shows how agricultural workers in Jordan recently joined together to collectively campaign for--and win--a landmark law that will bring them safer jobs, overtime pay and even guaranteed 10 weeks paid maternity leave. More than half of agricultural workers in Jordan are women. "I can say without a doubt that this is a historic achievement because since Jordan was founded, agricultural workers have not been included in the labor law until now," says Abu Nijmeh, director of the Jordan-based Workers' House for Studies.
Listen to the full show at [link removed] The Solidarity Center Podcast.

Union-made Halloween
With Halloween just around the corner, here's a handy list of union-made treats from the AFL-CIO for your Striketober festivities.

Today's labor quote: John Sweeney


"I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers."

Sweeney, president of the Service Employees Intl. Union, at the time, was elected president of AFL-CIO on this date in 1995.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: [link removed] Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Breweryhttps://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-63wik-1112264 . Last week's show: [link removed]
"It Didn't Start with Amazon: A Conversation About the History of Organized Labor in the South."

25,000 silk dye workers strike in Paterson, NJ - 1934

In what becomes known as the Great Hawaiian Dock Strike, a six-month struggle to win wage parity with mainland dock workers ends, in victory - 1949

The Tribune Co. begins a brutal five-month-long lockout at the New York Daily News, part of an effort to bust the newspaper's unions - 1990

- David Prosten.

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