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Profiling Labor Activists for Women's History Month: Pam Fendt

CLUW celebrates Women's Herstory Month

UNION CITY Guest Opinion: Marissa Alayna Navarro

Solidarity Center Podcast: Mexican Auto Workers Win Landmark Victory

GLFFN's Women's History FilmFest

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

 

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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily

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FILM: The First Wave: Tue, March 8, 7pm - 9pm

DC Labor FilmFest Monthly Bread and Roses series
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One Year Anniversary of Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, March 9, 8:15am - 9:15am

Wed. March 9th - One Year Anniversary of Wednesdays with Warner - 8:15 am
Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria, VA

Join the Coalition to Repeal Right to Work for a special Week 52 of the weekly gathering to ask Senator Warner to stand with labor and sign the PRO Act. In his State of the Union Address, President Biden said: "Let's pass the PRO Act when a majority of workers want to form a union--they shouldn't be stopped." Senator Warner remains one of only three Democratic Senators opposed to this critical legislation.

Cotton Campaign and Uzbekistan Government on Labor Conditions in Uzbekistan's Cotton Sector: Thu, March 10, 7am - 9am
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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, March 10, 1pm - 2pm
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This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The Radicalism of Irish American Women.

Profiling Labor Activists for Women's History Month: Pam Fendt

This year, for [link removed] Women's History Month, the AFL-CIO is taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently actively making women's history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also trying to improve conditions for working people across the country. Today's profile is Pam Fendt of the Laborers (LIUNA) and the Milwaukee Area Labor Council (MALC). Pam Fendt has worked for the Laborers since 2010 and is a third-term president and delegate to the Milwaukee Area Labor Council. She also is a delegate to the Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council for LIUNA Local 113. Fendt is proud to help LIUNA's organizers in their work to bring new members into the union, and she has had an innovative voice as president of MALC since 2017. She is a fierce supporter of women in labor and is a founding member of empowHER, an organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of construction tradeswomen.


Follow on [link removed] the AFL-CIO's blog, [link removed] Twitter or [link removed] Facebook all month long for more profiles.


CLUW celebrates Women's Herstory Month

The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) invites you to take part in their self-paced [link removed] trivia game. This quiz features 20 trivia questions "to test your knowledge and encourage you to reflect on the historical, societal and cultural impact of women of the past, present and our future." [link removed] CLICK HERE to play.

UNION CITY Guest Opinion: Marissa Alayna Navarro
President of CAP (Center for American Progress) Union

I currently work in my dream job as a research assistant on the higher education team at the Center for American Progress (CAP). As a Black-Xicana, first generation college student, I know the challenges associated with pursuing a higher education and how to support those from underrepresented communities finish their bachelor's degrees. At CAP, I get to do work I'm passionate about by advocating for policy solutions that help others from marginalized backgrounds attend college.

I deeply value the work I do at CAP, which is why I'm committed to making CAP a better place to work. CAP has the opportunity to be a leader to other prestigious nonprofits by living its values as an employer. Through CAP Union, where I serve as president, my coworkers and I are using our collective power to reach this goal.

CAP has been a challenging place to work for those who don't come from privilege, but our union is changing this...Read the rest of Marissa's columnhttps://npeu.org/news/2022/3/1/through-our-union-we-are-creating-bold-progressive-change-in-our-workplace-and-beyond here.

Solidarity Center Podcast: Mexican Auto Workers Win Landmark Victory

Workers at a GM plant in Mexico voted for a democratic union in the face of corruption and incredible pressure to cast their vote for a union that did the company's bidding. Maria Alejandra Morales Reynoso, leader of the new union, shares their struggle on the latest Solidarity Center Podcast. U.S. unions provided key support and the workers' victory "gave people hope, hope that it was possible to represent workers freely," says Morales. [link removed] Listen here.


GLFFN's Women's History FilmFest

March is Women's History Month and the DC Labor FilmFest, as part of the Global Labor Film Festival Network is proud to present a terrific array of women-themed films that will available online for free. This special Global Labor Film Festival includes three features: [link removed] A Strike And An Uprising (In Texas), [link removed] The One and Only Jewish Miss America and [link removed] Sunday Beauty Queen, plus some short films.

The screenings are sponsored by: Workers Unite! Film Festival (New York City); London Labour Film Festival (London, UK); DC Labor FilmFest (Washington, DC); Labor411 (Los Angeles, CA); Old Labor Hall (Barre, VT); Haifa Labor Film Festival (Haifa, Israel); AUPE (Alberta, Canada).

Today's labor quote: Lucy Parsons

"We are the slaves of slaves. We are exploited more ruthlessly. The men, whenever wages are to be reduced, the capitalist class, use women to reduce them. And if there's anything that you men should do in the future, it is to organize the women."

IWW founder and labor organizer Lucy Parsons died on this date in 1942.
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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The Radicalism of Irish American Women. Last week's episode: [link removed] Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine.

March 7
6,000 shoemakers, joined by about 20,000 other workers, strike in Lynn, Mass. They won raises, but not recognition of their union - 1860

Hollywood writers represented by the Writers Guild of America went on strike against 200 television and movie studios over residuals payments and creative rights. The successful strike lasted 150 days, one of the longest in industry history - 1988

Musicians strike Broadway musicals and shows go dark when actors and stagehands honor picket lines. The strike was resolved after four days - 2003

March 8

Thousands of New York needle trades workers demonstrate for higher wages, shorter workday, and end to child labor. The demonstration became the basis for International Women's Day - 1908

New York members of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, many of them women, strike for better pay and conditions. They persevere despite beatings by police, winning a 10 percent wage increase and five-day work week - 1926

- David Prosten

 

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