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Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
“The Wobblies” opens 2022 DC Labor FilmFest Sunday at AFI Silver. Email cgarlock@dclabor.org to enter a raffle for free passes.
Today’s labor quote: Deborah Shaffer.
Today’s labor history: Coxey’s Army reaches DC.
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Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Grim statistics from the AFL-CIO’s annual report on worker safety and health.
Today’s labor quote: Liz Shuler.
Today’s labor history: Two coal mine disasters; creation of OSHA.
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Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Climate scientists urge colleagues to stage a mass walkout.
Today’s labor quote: Timothy F. Smith.
Today’s labor history: First strike for the 10 hour day.
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Reveals a “systematic trend toward hiring poorly paid precariously employed contingent faculty with expanded teaching loads.”
Today’s labor quote: Nate Beard.
Today’s labor history: Army seizes Montgomery Ward HQ after management defied the NLRB.
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Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights awarded to National Health Workers Union of Liberia and its exiled leader George Poe Williams.
Today’s labor quote: SEIU Local 500.
Today’s labor history: Rev. Abernathy arrested while picketing Charleston hospital in a demand for union recognition.
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Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Earning while you learn; Two wins for UNITE HERE 23; Ukraine workers’ Wartime Diaries; Pay gap persists at The Post.
Today’s labor quote: Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Today’s labor history: ILWU shuts down West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Major rally on climate action planned for tomorrow in DC.
Today’s labor quote: Bernie Sanders.
Today’s labor history: One of the worst disasters in Virginia mining history.
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Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Women and people of color are still paid less, compared with their male and White colleagues, according to Washington Post Guild study.
Today’s labor quote: Washington Post Guild.
Today’s labor history: Rockefeller signs Taylor Law.
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Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Labour Initiatives, a local non-governmental organization in Ukraine, has launched a video series, dubbed Wartime Labor Diary, featuring interviews with workers documenting their often heroic efforts in Kyiv during wartime.
Today’s labor quote: “Comrade Gromov”.
Today’s labor history: The Ludlow Massacre.
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Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Levy Nationals Ballpark workers win contract; Guckenheimer Google workers join union.
Today’s labor quote: Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Today’s labor history: NYC bus boycott succeeds.
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