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Fire Fighters speak out on cancer threat

Insulators 24 welcomes Hot & Cold

CWA 2108 pays respects to Maurice Moore

ICYMI: Virginia boss to striking transit workers: "Let them freeze!"

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Fire Fighters speak out on cancer threat

Cancer is more prevalent amongst fire fighters "and it is our number 1 cause of death," IAFF Local 36 [link removed] posted on Facebook yesterday. "Local 36 members are sharing their battles with cancer as the local works with #dc stakeholders to improve cancer presumption legislation. This will allow our members to be better cared for if/when they have to fight cancer. #iaff #CancerAwareness."


Insulators 24 welcomes Hot & Cold

Insulators and Allied Workers Local 24 recently extended "a warm welcome to our newest signatory contractor, Hot & Cold Corporation, based out of Clinton, Maryland. We look forward to many years of partnership and are excited to have you on board!"

CWA 2108 pays respects to Maurice Moore
Members of CWA LOCAL 2108 on January 18 showed their last respects "to our Union Brother Maurice Moore." Moore was a Local 2108 member who previously worked at the Chesapeake Complex.

ICYMI: [link removed] Virginia boss to striking transit workers: "Let them freeze!"

By Aloysius Wolf: I drive for a living myself, and I made the trip from my home in Fredericksburg, Virginia to the transit strike now underway in Loudoun County, in the far Western suburbs of Washington, DC. It was my time to put in some picket duty and show support for these workers, members of Local 689, Amalgamated Transit Union, who are on strike against the Keolis company, a subcontractor with Loudoun County... (photo by Aloysius Wolf)

Labor Quote: William "Big Bill" Haywood

"A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike."

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Bill Lucy on MLK; Shubert Sebree on Debs. Last week's show: [link removed] Strong Winds and Widow Makers.

Krueger Cream Ale, the first canned beer, goes on sale in Richmond, Va. Pabst was the second brewer in the same year to sell beer in cans, which came with opening instructions and the suggestion: "cool before serving" - 1935

Federal minimum wage increases to 75¢ an hour - 1952

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