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New date for Tri-County COPE meetings

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DC Council Redistricting Hearings: City-wide hearing: Fri, November 5, 12pm - 2pm
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[link removed] Coalition to Repeal Right to Work: Fri, November 5, 7pm - 8pm

Meeting of 50 organizations seeking to eliminate the Jim Crow-era "right to work" law and make Virginia a union-friendly state.

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Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-large, American Prospect, on "The Biden Drift and do-nothing Democrats." UNITE HERE Local 25 Political Director Sam Epps on connecting electoral work - his local knocked on over 200,000 Virginia doors -- with union organizing. PLUS: Garlock workers strike in Palmyra, NY, and the John Deere strike continues as UAW members reject a second contract proposal.

Pledge to stand with AFSCME COVID-19 heroes

Over the past year, thousands of Maryland's state and higher education employees helped to make sure the state and its' campuses kept running, despite the worst pandemic in over 100 years. But after the "thank yous" and appreciations that many essential workers have received, says AFSCME Council 3, "the true test is to convert platitudes to dignity, respect and pay for those same workers." They're urging supporters to [link removed]
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to show your support for AFSCME Council 3 COVID-19 heroes "and support our fight for living wages and expanded collective bargaining rights for all workers!" From the beginning of the pandemic, AFSCME and its labor and community partners have demanded health and safety plans, established protocols, hazard pay and PPE for all, especially those serving in congregate care facilities like hospitals and prisons. But, says the union, "The Hogan Administration's response has been an insult to frontline staff," adding that "Strong and robust public services are key to recovery from the pandemic and containing the spread."


Evening with Labor volunteers wanted!

Evening with Labor - coming up next Friday, November 12 - organizers are looking for volunteers to assist at the check-in table at the annual celebration of area labor leaders and activists. Volunteers will be needed from 6:30-8:00 pm and will check people in and confirm vaccination status. Those available and interested should contact David Stephen, Political and Legislative Director, at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]
by COB Tuesday, November 8.

New date for Tri-County COPE meetings

The Metropolitan Labor Council's Tri-County Committee on Political Education (COPE) has changed its regular meeting dates to the third Wednesday of the month beginning November 17, 2021. Tri-County COPE covers Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's counties, as well as state elected officials within the counties. The committee encourages any union member of a DC Labor Council affiliate to join us and offer input on political issues affecting the tri-county region. As the committee moves into the 2022 election season, they will host guests seeking elected office through January 2022. The Committee invites and encourages all to attend by clicking
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Today's labor quote: Paul Jennings

The IUE (International Union of Electrical Workers) president (1965 to 1976) who described Boulwarism (see Labor History, below) as "telling the workers what they are entitled to and then trying to shove it down their throats."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: [link removed] From the Necropolis Strike to Striketober. Last week's show: [link removed] "[link removed]
Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery"

November 5

Eugene V. Debs - labor leader, socialist, three-time candidate for president and first president of the American Railway Union, born - 1855

Everett, Wash., massacre, at least seven Wobblies killed, 50 wounded and an indeterminate number missing. Bloody Sunday Everett, a few hundred members of the Industrial Workers of the World traveled from Seattle to Everett, Washington by boat. Everett's sheriff and about 200 armed men met them at the dock to prevent them from landing and a gun battle ensued in which five Wobblies and two of the sheriff's deputies were killed. - 1916

Some 12,000 television and movie writers begin what was to become a three-month strike against producers over demands for an increase in pay for movies and television shows released on DVD and for a bigger share of the revenue from work delivered over the Internet - 2007

November 6


A coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pa. kills 79. The mine had been rated gaseous in 1918, but at the insistence of new operators it was rated as non-gaseous even though miners had been burned by gas on at least four occasions - 1922

November 7


Some 1,300 building trades workers in eastern Massachusetts participated in a general strike on all military work in the area to protest the use of open-shop (a worksite in which union membership is not required as a condition of employment) builders. The strike held on for a week in the face of threats from the U.S. War Department - 1917

President Eisenhower's use of the Taft-Hartley Act is upheld by the Supreme Court, breaking a 116-day steel strike - 1959

Lemuel Ricketts Boulware dies in Delray Beach, Fla. at age 95. As a GE vice president in the 1950s he created the policy known as Boulwarism, in which management decides what is "fair" and refuses to budge on anything during contract negotiations. In 1964, the National Labor Relations Board declared such tactics to be unfair labor practices. - 1990

- David Prosten.

 

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