Missed this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. This week's show: William Attig, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO drops by to discuss a brand-new program, Operation Union Veterans Day. Then, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith on Why the Media Loves Labor Now. Plus, latest labor news and the 60-second Labor Rap! |
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43rd Evening with Labor tonight
Rescheduled twice since last year due to the pandemic, the Metro Washington Council’s 43rd Evening with Labor will be held tonight at Martin’s in Greenbelt. Attendees who already purchased tickets should have already pre-registered and must show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test at the door. Those wishing to attend virtually may purchase a ticket here. Speakers include AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler; award-winners include Eric Bunn (AFGE) and Jaime Contreras (SEIU 32BJ), who will receive the 2019 JC Turner Awards for Outstanding Trade Unionist of the Year; read more -- and see the evening's program -- here. |
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UFCW Kaiser Pharmacy workers give 10-day strike notice
Preparations have begun after UFCW Kaiser Pharmacy members gave their 10-day strike notice on Nov. 9, tweeted UFCW 770. “If Kaiser Permanente does not adhere to their workers needs for #BestJobsBestCare, workers will then fight back by a potential #StrikesGiving on November 18th.” |
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Union member wins teaching “Nobel” prize
Teacher Keishia Thorpe – current PGCEA member and former DCPS teacher, WTU Local 6 member and a WTU Teacher Leader -- on Wednesday was named the winner of a global teaching prize worth $1 million — the biggest such award for educators in the world. “This is to encourage every little Black boy and girl that looks like me, and every child in the world that feels marginalized and has a story like mine, and felt they never mattered,” Thorpe said Wednesday. Thorpe, who teaches 12th-grade English at the International High School at Langley Park, in the Prince George’s County public school system, received the Global Teacher Prize at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Her students mostly come from immigrant and refugee families.
- The Washington Post; read more here. |
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Today’s labor quote: Keishia Thorpe
“Every child needs a champion, an adult who will never ever give up on them, who understands the power of connection & insists they become the very best they can be. This is exactly why teachers will always matter.” |
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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: Communists and community in wartime Detroit. Last week's show: From the Necropolis Strike to Striketober.
November 12
Ellis Island in New York closes after providing the gateway for 12 million immigrants from 1892 to 1924. From 1924 to 1954 it was mostly used as a detention and deportation center for undocumented immigrants - 1954
“Chainsaw Al” Dunlap announces he is restructuring the Sunbeam Corp. and lays off 6,000 workers—half the workforce. Sunbeam later nearly collapsed after a series of scandals under Dunlap’s leadership that cost investors billions of dollars - 1996
November 13
A Western Federation of Miners strike is crushed by the militia in Butte, Mont. - 1914
Striking typesetters at the Green Bay, Wisc. Press Gazette start a competing newspaper, The Green Bay Daily News. With financial support from a local businessman who hated the Press Gazette, the union ran the paper for four years before their angel died and it was sold to another publisher. The Gannett chain ultimately bought the paper, only to fold it in 2005 - 1972
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union activist Karen Silkwood is killed in a suspicious car crash on her way to deliver documents to a newspaper reporter during a safety investigation of her Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma. - 1974
November 14
Trade unions formed the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Organizations, later becoming the AFL. Under the leadership of Samuel Gompers and Peter McGuire, the AFL became the most influential labor organization in the nation - 1881
Women’s Trade Union League founded, Boston - 1903
The National Federation of Telephone Workers – later to become the Communications Workers of America – is founded in New Orleans - 1938
To “organize workers into a powerful industrial union,” United Mine Workers of America President, John L. Lewis called a meeting in Pittsburgh’s Islam Grotto, founding the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) - 1938
- David Prosten.
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