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Union City Radio: 7:15am M-F; WPFW 89.3FM

Labor Lobby Day at the VA General Assembly: Mon, January 27, 8am – 5pm
Pocahontas Building - 9th and Main, Richmond, VA

Chesapeake Bay CLUW meeting: Mon, January 27, 6pm – 8pm
On the Border Mexican Grill, located - 16403 Heritage Blvd, Bowie, Md 20716

Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public School: Tue, January 28, 3:30pm – 6:00pm
American Federation of Teachers 555 New Jersey Ave, N.W. | Washington, DC 20001
RSVP here 

Coalition to Repeal Right to Work (VA): Tue, January 28, 7pm – 9pm
Shirlington Busboys & Poets, 4251 Campbell Ave., Arlington VA

Labor-Media Breakfast Roundtable: Wed, January 29, 8:30am – 11:00am
AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, US, xxxxxx
FREE; click here to RSVP

photo: 2019 Bricklayers-Spare Us & Strike Force CSA bowling teams; photo by Chris Garlock

Progress remains slow in contract negotiations with Giant & Safeway
“Since the new year, we have had three weeks of negotiations with Giant & Safeway and we remain far apart on nearly every single issue.” reports UFCW Local 400. “These negotiations have been difficult, complicated, and frustrating.” Local 400 notes that “The reality is that in the last year, negotiations between these companies and UFCW locals throughout the country have taken far longer than usual. We are eager to get a new contract, but we need that contract to provide the things we have earned through our hard work: wages we can live on, schedules we can depend on, healthcare we can afford, and a retirement we can count on. We will not be rushed into a bad deal.” More negotiations are scheduled for this week.

Last chance to RSVP for Labor-Media Breakfast Roundtable
There’s still time to RSVP for the 6th annual Labor-Media Breakfast Roundtable, scheduled for this Wednesday from 8:30-11a. This informal get-together is organized by the Council’s Local Labor Communicators Network, which includes communications staff from many area labor unions. The gathering is an “on background” session designed to foster better communication between area reporters and local union communication staffers and leaders. The Breakfast is sponsored again this year by American Income Life. photo: 2016 Labor-Media Breakfast; photo by Chris Garlock

Today's Labor Quote: Samuel Gompers

“We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.”

A 3-cent postage stamp honoring Gompers -- founder of the American Federation of Labor--was issued on this date in 1950.

Today's Labor History

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Voices from the Lansing Auto Town Gallery

On today’s show, auto worker Dorothy Stevens on her pioneering career at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI. Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Dolly Parton’s hit song, Bill Fletcher on the wildcat strike by the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement, and the Cool Things from the Meany Archives team digs into the AFL’s cornerstone.
Last week's show: (1/19): MLK: All Labor Has Dignity
 

January 27
New York City maids organize to improve working conditions – 1734

First meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) – 1920

A group of Detroit African-American auto workers known as the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement leads a wildcat strike against racism and bad working conditions. They are critical of both automakers and the UAW, condemning the seniority system and grievance procedures as racist - 1969

January 28
American Miners’ Association formed - 1861

First U.S. unemployment compensation law enacted, in Wisconsin – 1932

- David Prosten; photo: League of Revolutionary Black Workers