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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

Protect DC Workers!; Teachers urge caution on re-opening schools; DC City Council approves COVID protection bill; Stories and music to end medical debt.
Today’s labor history: The Sugar That’s Not So Sweet.
PLUS: Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney.

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Stories and music to end medical debt

End Medical Debt Maryland campaign launches online Saturday night.
Today’s labor history: First U.S. daily labor newspaper.
Today’s labor quote: Anne Feeney.

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DC City Council approves COVID protection bill

“This bill empowers workers to make sure that their employers obey the law and keep them safe.”
Today’s labor history: Unemployment demonstrations across the U.S.
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney.

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Our work is essential. So are our lives.

Lobbying for the Maryland Essential Workers Protections Act.
Today’s labor history: SCOTUS upholds child labor ban.
Today’s labor quote: John Sweeney.

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Teachers urge caution on re-opening schools

WTU president says city leaders should “follow the science.”
Today’s labor history: Fired for refusing to make coffee.
Today’s labor quote: Coalition of Labor Union Women.

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Tell the Council: Protect DC Workers!

Pass the Workplace Safety During the Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency Amendment Act of 2021.
Today’s labor history: Female laundry workers form union.
Today’s labor quote: Ray Korona.

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This Week’s Union City Radio Highlights

IATSE 22 members help stage “flawless” inauguration; Union density rises; Who does it take to flip a project?; AFSCME MD mourns loss of 3 more members to COVID; Bricklayers keep it clean in Baltimore
Today’s labor history: The End of Slave Labor

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Bricklayers keep it clean in Baltimore

Repairing Montebello Filtration Plant to keep Baltimore’s water pure.
Today’s labor history: Jackson sends in the troops.
Today’s labor quote: Dolly Parton.

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AFSCME MD mourns loss of 3 more members to COVID

“No matter how many get sick or die they continue to operate like business as usual.”
Today’s labor history: First U.I. in U.S.
Today’s labor quote: Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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Who does it take to flip a project?

Organizing tips from the International Cinematographers Guild.
Today’s labor quote: Bayard Rustin.
Today’s labor history: Working Class Stamps.  

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