Today’s Labor Calendar
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Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM
2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.
Loudoun County Transit Strike Picket Line: Fri, February 10, 3:30am – 3:00pm
43031 Loudoun Center Place in Leesburg, VA (map)
Funeral arrangements for local labor pioneer Geraldine P. Boykin: Fri, February 10, 10am – 1pm
Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, 3000 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20020, USA (map) Read the UC story here.
George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Fri, February 10, 11am – 12pm
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On Super Bowl Sunday, some of our larger and faster union brothers—members of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA)—will be battling it out on the gridiron. While the Super Bowl carries a union label, from players to broadcast crews to stadium workers—your Super Bowl party spread can, too, with union-made in America food and drinks. Check out these union-made Super Bowl party products, brought to you by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), the UAW, Machinists (IAM), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and the Teamsters (IBT).
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WHUR's Autumn Joi Live to emcee Evening with Labor
WHUR's Autumn Joi Live will be emceeing the 44th Annual Evening with Labor, coming up on March 3. Creative, radio host, entrepreneur and actor, Autumn Joi Live hails out of Prince George’s County, Maryland. She's been a correspondent for TMZ, News One Now & TV One. She’s also been a red carpet correspondent for numerous events including the BET Awards, NAACP Awards & the Grammys! You can hear her Mon-Fri between 10am and 3pm on WHUR as well as on the Autumn-Joi Live Show podcast. Autumn Joi will be at Evening with Labor to help us celebrate all of this year's outstanding honorees. Get your tickets or become an event sponsor today -- deadline February 24 -- and we'll see you on March 3!
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Nigeria's Drivers form country's first app-based union
Drivers in Nigeria won the country’s first union covering platform-based workers, a victory that shows it is possible for “unions to organize workers in the gig economy,” says Ayoade Ibrahim, secretary general of the Amalgamated Union of App-Based Transport Workers of Nigeria (AUATWN). Platform workers in countries worldwide are joining together to better wages, job safety and other fundamental rights guaranteed by international laws. In Kyrgyzstan, gig workers at Yandex Go formed a union and won better wages, while a new report finds that workers on digital platform companies who are pursuing their rights at work through courts and legislation are making significant gains, especially in Europe and Latin America. Read or listen to the full story at Solidarity Center.
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Today’s Labor Quote: Joe Biden |
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| Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Reconciling a Slaveholding Past. Last week’s show: A meatpacker’s American dream.
February 10
Eleven members of the Carpenters’ union in Reesor Siding, Northern Ontario are shot, three fatally, by independent local farmer-settlers who were supplying wood to a Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co. plant. Some 400 union members were attempting to block an outbound shipment from the plant. The action came as the company was insisting on a pay freeze and two months of seven-day-a-week work – 1963
February 11
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones is arrested while leading a protest of conditions in West Virginia mines. She was 83 years old at the time – 1913
photo: Mother Jones speaks to an assembled crowd in Montgomery, West Virginia in 1912 ahead of the Paint Creek Miners Strike. photo from West Virginia University
February 12
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born into slavery near Easton, MD - 1818
David Prosten
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