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Airline workers sit-in, grocery workers picket today

Airline catering workers plan sit-in at National Airport; supermarket workers to rally at dozens of Giant and Safeway locations. Today’s labor history: women workers die in factory fire in Newark. Today’s labor quote by Harry Bridges.

Union-made Thanksgiving

Resources for holiday shopping. Today’s labor history: 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, march in solidarity parade. Today’s labor quote by George Meany.

Labor History Today (11/24): FWW&CP, the ILO and Lattimer Redux

Jessica Pauszek on the Federation of Worker Writers And Community Publishers; Mark Anner and Tula Connell on the International Labor Organization, and Cool Things at the Meany Archives team dig into their files on the Lattimer Massacre of 1897 and discover, not only the names of those killed, but perhaps a personal connection as well. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock. The Labor History Today team includes Ben Blake, Chloe Danyo, Patrick Dixon, Leon Fink, Sherry Linkon, Joe McCartin, Jessica Pauszek and Alan Wierdak.

National Center for Transgender Equality charged with firing workers for organizing

Nonprofit Professional Employees Union files charges. Today’s labor history: Young immigrant women launch Uprising of the 20,000. Today’s labor quote.

Viral striking bus driver video: “Don’t Play With My Money”

Contract negotiations resumed yesterday but pickets and rallies continue. Today’s labor history: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bans discrimination. Today’s labor quote by Tracy Sear.

1,000 WV nurses organize

One of the biggest organizing victories since West Virginia became a Right-to-Work state. Today’s labor history: time clock invented. Today’s labor quote by Norman Thomas.

MD/DC AFL-CIO: “Our moment, our fight, our future”

Hundreds of unionists gather for Maryland/DC AFL-CIO Convention. Today’s labor history: National Writers Union founded. Today’s labor quote by Joe Hill.

MD/DC AFL-CIO president Donna Edwards: "We are at one moment in time"

"I do believe that we are at one moment in time...It is our moment. It is our fight. And it is our future." Edited from her speech at the November 18, 2019 MD/DC AFL-CIO Convention.

How a union job helped a vet gain dignity

Will Attig, Executive Director of the AFL-CIO’s Veteran’s Council. Today’s labor history: Seattle printers reject anti-labor ad. Today’s labor quote by Tom Kelly.

Labor History Today (11/17): Remembering Lattimer, GINA and Newsies

Paul Shackel, author of “Remembering Lattimer,” on one of the largest labor massacres in U.S. history. Lewis Maltby on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the major workplace protection measure celebrating its’ 10th anniversary. Plus a sneak preview of “Newsies,” now at Arena Stage in DC. Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock. The Labor History Today team includes Ben Blake, Chloe Danyo, Patrick Dixon, Leon Fink, Sherry Linkon, Joe McCartin, and Alan Wierdak.