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Women want jobs, jobs, jobs; House passes historic PRO Act; DC launches new 1-stop vaccine sign-up.
Today’s labor history: Ford’s new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes. Goodbye, craftsmanship.
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons.

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DC launches new 1-stop vaccine sign-up

“All workers should sign up and get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible.”
Today’s labor history: "Bread and Roses" textile strike ends.  
Today’s quote: Lane Kirkland.

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House passes historic PRO Act

Protecting the Right to Organize Act will “summon a new wave of worker power.”
Today’s quote: Joe Biden.
Today’s labor history: Luddites destroy textile machines.  

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Maryland’s unemployment system is busted

UNITE HERE Local 25 supports reforms "to ensure that a failure on this scale never occurs again."
Today’s quote: César Chávez.
Today’s labor history: NYC bus drivers strike.  

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Women want jobs, jobs, jobs

Plus freedom from violence and an end to discrimination, says Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation.
Today’s quote: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Today’s labor history: Congress begins 100 days of enacting New Deal legislation.  

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MD urged to prioritize vaccines for property services workers

“The quicker that happens, the quicker our region can recover and reopen.”
Today’s labor history: Fur and Leather Workers Union workers -- many of them women – strike and win.
Today’s quote: Amazon worker/organizer Jennifer Bates.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

“Make your voice heard,” Biden tells workers; $55.77 an hour; Coalition fights employer “scare tactics” on hazard pay.
Today’s labor history: Ford gasses and shoots unemployed auto workers.
Today’s labor quote: Lucy Parsons.

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Relief plan could strand unemployed

American Rescue Plan’s current unemployment insurance provisions would lapse while Congress is on recess.
Today’s labor history: Colonists protest British soldiers taking their jobs.
Today’s quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Coalition fights employer “scare tactics” on hazard pay

"Right now in Annapolis, the business community is ganging up to defeat or water down" the Maryland Essential Workers Protection Act.
Today’s labor history: Creation of the Department of Labor.
Today’s quote: Thomas Jefferson.

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"Make your voice heard," Biden tells workers

Biden video calls on working people across the country to exercise their right to form unions.
Today’s labor history: Birth of AFL president William Green.
Today’s quote: President Joe Biden

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