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| Date | December 31, 2021 10:49 AM |
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Day of Action for Burroughs
Politics and Prose may voluntarily recognize union
MLK conference registration opens
Summit for Democracy: Workers Organizations' Vital Role
Today's Labor Quote
Today's Labor History
 
[link removed] LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; [link removed] click here to hear today's report
MWC/CSA/CAP Offices Closed for holidays: Dec 27 - 31, 2021
GOTV Rally & Canvass for Prince George's County Council Special Election District 8 Candidate Ed Burroughs III: Mon, January 3, 2022, 10am - 12pm
5829 Allentown Rd., Camp Springs, MD 20746
2022 PG County Council Special Election Member-to-Member Phonebanking: Mon, January 3 and Tue, January 4, 2022, 4pm - 8pm
[link removed] RSVP here to sign up to phonebank for labor-endorsed candidate Edward Burroughs. NOTE: the room is also open starting at 9a.
Missed this week's Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM? [link removed] Catch the podcast here. After months of negotiations and a public campaign, Colonial Williamsburg workers have finally won a new contract; will this year's historic strike wave continue in 2022? PLUS: "We Won't Back Down" a brand-new song from Jerry Levinsky.
Day of Action for Burroughs
Next Monday will serve as the final push to get out the labor vote to elect Ed Burroughs III in the Prince George's County Council (PGCC) Special Election in District 8. Election Day is Tuesday, January 4. Baltimore-DC Building Trades Council and Metro Washington Labor Council leaders, union members, and allies will rally at 10a (see Calendar, above). "The next county council member for District 8 has to be someone who understands the critical needs of our members," said MWC AFL-CIO President Dyana Forester. "Not only in their work but in their day-to-day lives. Union members want good schools, safe neighborhoods, and low property taxes. Edward Burroughs can get us there." The MWC has already hosted multiple days of action and coordinated several phone banks supporting Burroughs.
Politics and Prose may voluntarily recognize union
The owners of Politics and Prose have [link removed] announced that they're open to voluntarily recognizing their employees' union, [link removed] reports dcist. This is a shift in the position of co-owners Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, who had [link removed] initially resolutely declined to voluntarily recognize the union ([link removed] Politics & Prose workers organize 12/17 UC). "This is a step in the right direction and we remain cautiously optimistic as we move forward with becoming the first unionized bookstore in Washington, DC," the Politics & Prose Workers Union [link removed] said in a statement on Twitter.
MLK conference registration opens
Registration is now open for the 2022 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference Jan. 16-17. Find information on how to register [link removed] here. This year's theme is Honoring Our Past and Protecting Our Future. "History tells us where we've been," say organizers, "And it shows us the path for moving forward. This conference will challenge us to look to the future. To ask and answer how we can build a multiracial, progressive labor movement reflective of America's changing workforce--as working people of color will be the majority in just a few years."
Summit for Democracy: Workers Organizations' Vital Role
Democracy enables workers and their unions to flourish, and as it is increasingly threatened around the world, democracy also depends on working people and their organizations to keep it vibrant, according to speakers at the high-level event, Worker Organizations' Vital Role in Democracy. The forum, an official side event of the November 9-10 U.S. Summit for Democracy, included AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and a host of global union leaders, labor ministers and philanthropists to highlight the role of worker voice and worker rights as fundamental components of democracy and spur global action in support of freedom of association and collective bargaining. "No social or political progress happens by magic. Change is pushed by people working collectively," said Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau. "And legitimacy of the government comes from the people." Read more at [link removed] Solidarity Center.
Today's labor quote: "We Won't Back Down"
"There ain't no easy way out
We won't back down
And together, we will stand our ground
And we won't back down."
Jerry Levinsky's [link removed] "We Won't Back Down", based on Tom Petty's classic "I Won't Back Down."
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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
This week's Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: [link removed] Labor's Untold Stories. [link removed] Last week's show: [link removed] Striketober & The Great Resignation: Take this job and shove it!
December 31
60,000 unemployed workers rally at a Pittsburgh stadium - 1931
United Mine Workers reformer Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and daughter are murdered by hitmen hired by union president Tony Boyle, who was to be convicted of the crime and eventually die in prison - 1969
OSHA adopts a grain handling facilities standard to protect 155,000 workers at nearly 24,000 grain elevators from the risk of fire and explosion from highly combustible grain dust - 1987
January 1
Women weavers form union, Fall River, Mass - 1875
John L. Lewis is elected president of the United Mine Workers. Fifteen years later he is to be a leader in the formation of what was to become the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) -1920
Country music legend Hank Williams attends what was to be his final Musician's union meeting, at the Elite Café in Montgomery, Ala. He died of apparent heart failure three days later, at age 29 - 1953
January 2
Conference of hundreds of industrial unionists in Chicago leads to formation of IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as Wobblies - 1905
In what became known as Palmer Raids, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer arrests 4,000 foreign-born labor agitators. He believed Communism was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman," and Socialists were causing most of the country's social problems - 1920
An underground explosion at Sago Mine in Tallmansville, W. Va., traps 12 miners and cuts power to the mine. Eleven men die, mostly by asphyxiation. The mine had been cited 273 times for safety violations over the prior 23 months - 2006
- David Prosten.
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Day of Action for Burroughs
Politics and Prose may voluntarily recognize union
MLK conference registration opens
Summit for Democracy: Workers Organizations' Vital Role
Today's Labor Quote
Today's Labor History
 
[link removed] LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; [link removed] click here to hear today's report
MWC/CSA/CAP Offices Closed for holidays: Dec 27 - 31, 2021
GOTV Rally & Canvass for Prince George's County Council Special Election District 8 Candidate Ed Burroughs III: Mon, January 3, 2022, 10am - 12pm
5829 Allentown Rd., Camp Springs, MD 20746
2022 PG County Council Special Election Member-to-Member Phonebanking: Mon, January 3 and Tue, January 4, 2022, 4pm - 8pm
[link removed] RSVP here to sign up to phonebank for labor-endorsed candidate Edward Burroughs. NOTE: the room is also open starting at 9a.
Missed this week's Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM? [link removed] Catch the podcast here. After months of negotiations and a public campaign, Colonial Williamsburg workers have finally won a new contract; will this year's historic strike wave continue in 2022? PLUS: "We Won't Back Down" a brand-new song from Jerry Levinsky.
Day of Action for Burroughs
Next Monday will serve as the final push to get out the labor vote to elect Ed Burroughs III in the Prince George's County Council (PGCC) Special Election in District 8. Election Day is Tuesday, January 4. Baltimore-DC Building Trades Council and Metro Washington Labor Council leaders, union members, and allies will rally at 10a (see Calendar, above). "The next county council member for District 8 has to be someone who understands the critical needs of our members," said MWC AFL-CIO President Dyana Forester. "Not only in their work but in their day-to-day lives. Union members want good schools, safe neighborhoods, and low property taxes. Edward Burroughs can get us there." The MWC has already hosted multiple days of action and coordinated several phone banks supporting Burroughs.
Politics and Prose may voluntarily recognize union
The owners of Politics and Prose have [link removed] announced that they're open to voluntarily recognizing their employees' union, [link removed] reports dcist. This is a shift in the position of co-owners Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine, who had [link removed] initially resolutely declined to voluntarily recognize the union ([link removed] Politics & Prose workers organize 12/17 UC). "This is a step in the right direction and we remain cautiously optimistic as we move forward with becoming the first unionized bookstore in Washington, DC," the Politics & Prose Workers Union [link removed] said in a statement on Twitter.
MLK conference registration opens
Registration is now open for the 2022 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference Jan. 16-17. Find information on how to register [link removed] here. This year's theme is Honoring Our Past and Protecting Our Future. "History tells us where we've been," say organizers, "And it shows us the path for moving forward. This conference will challenge us to look to the future. To ask and answer how we can build a multiracial, progressive labor movement reflective of America's changing workforce--as working people of color will be the majority in just a few years."
Summit for Democracy: Workers Organizations' Vital Role
Democracy enables workers and their unions to flourish, and as it is increasingly threatened around the world, democracy also depends on working people and their organizations to keep it vibrant, according to speakers at the high-level event, Worker Organizations' Vital Role in Democracy. The forum, an official side event of the November 9-10 U.S. Summit for Democracy, included AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and a host of global union leaders, labor ministers and philanthropists to highlight the role of worker voice and worker rights as fundamental components of democracy and spur global action in support of freedom of association and collective bargaining. "No social or political progress happens by magic. Change is pushed by people working collectively," said Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau. "And legitimacy of the government comes from the people." Read more at [link removed] Solidarity Center.
Today's labor quote: "We Won't Back Down"
"There ain't no easy way out
We won't back down
And together, we will stand our ground
And we won't back down."
Jerry Levinsky's [link removed] "We Won't Back Down", based on Tom Petty's classic "I Won't Back Down."
[link removed]
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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
This week's Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: [link removed] Labor's Untold Stories. [link removed] Last week's show: [link removed] Striketober & The Great Resignation: Take this job and shove it!
December 31
60,000 unemployed workers rally at a Pittsburgh stadium - 1931
United Mine Workers reformer Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and daughter are murdered by hitmen hired by union president Tony Boyle, who was to be convicted of the crime and eventually die in prison - 1969
OSHA adopts a grain handling facilities standard to protect 155,000 workers at nearly 24,000 grain elevators from the risk of fire and explosion from highly combustible grain dust - 1987
January 1
Women weavers form union, Fall River, Mass - 1875
John L. Lewis is elected president of the United Mine Workers. Fifteen years later he is to be a leader in the formation of what was to become the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) -1920
Country music legend Hank Williams attends what was to be his final Musician's union meeting, at the Elite Café in Montgomery, Ala. He died of apparent heart failure three days later, at age 29 - 1953
January 2
Conference of hundreds of industrial unionists in Chicago leads to formation of IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as Wobblies - 1905
In what became known as Palmer Raids, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer arrests 4,000 foreign-born labor agitators. He believed Communism was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman," and Socialists were causing most of the country's social problems - 1920
An underground explosion at Sago Mine in Tallmansville, W. Va., traps 12 miners and cuts power to the mine. Eleven men die, mostly by asphyxiation. The mine had been cited 273 times for safety violations over the prior 23 months - 2006
- David Prosten.
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