Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO

WEEKEND LABOR CALENDAR

1/18/2019

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Union City Radio on WPFW 89.3FM
Weekdays, 7:15am – 7:20am
WPFW-FM 89.3

ATU Shutdown Suppers
Weekdays, 12pm – 6pm
Tommy Douglas Conference Center and ATU International Headquarters, 10000 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20903

2019 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference
Jan 18 – 21, 2019
Various locations; CLICK HERE for details and to register

UPCOMING
Rally to End the Government Shutdown AFL-CIO Headquarters
Sat, January 19, 9am – 10am
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005

CLUW meet-up for Women's March
Sat, January 19, 10:00am – 10:30am
Corner Bakery Cafe, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045

NoVA Labor, 4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale VA
Gerrymandering: The Politics of Redistricting Reform
Sun, January 20, 1pm – 4pm
NECA/IBEW Local 26 Joint Apprenticeship Training Center, 7016 Infantry Ridge Rd., Manassas, VA 20109

Gonna Take Us All MLK Holiday Ball 2019
Sun, January 20, 8:00pm – 11:59pm
Silver Spring Civic Building • One Veterans Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910
CLICK HERE for tickets

Union tells Senators: Inside federal prisons, government shutdown is ‘recipe for disaster’

1/18/2019

The head of the union council representing more than 33,000 federal correctional workers nationwide is warning U.S. senators that the government shutdown, now the longest in history, is upending officers’ lives and putting them in greater danger. “We work in an already dangerous and stressful environment, where going to work distracted or fatigued can lead to serious injury or death,” American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals President Eric Young wrote in a Jan. 15 letter to every senator. “As the shutdown enters its fourth week, many of our members are being required to work mandatory overtime, and do so without pay, while many are preoccupied by how they will pay their rent or mortgage, their car payment, or their electric bill. It is a recipe for disaster because a distraction could cost you your life.” Read more here.

Today's Labor Quote: Johnny Paycheck

1/18/2019

Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more
My woman done left and took all the reasons
I was working for
You better not try to stand in my way
'Cause I'm walkin' out the door
Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more

From Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It," listed by Billboard magazine as the most popular song in the U.S. on this date in 1978.

Today's Labor History

1/18/2019

Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: Louis Hyman on how the Sears and Roebuck catalog helped oppose Jim Crow discrimination. The R.J. Phillips Band celebrates the day the Lumbee Indians ousted the KKK (photo). And Saul Schniderman remembers contributions to labor history by both Johnny Paycheck and Bruce Springsteen.

January 18
U.S. Supreme Court rules in Moyer v. Peabody that a governor and officers of a state National Guard may imprison anyone—in the case at hand, striking miners in Colorado—without probable cause “in a time of insurrection” and deny the person the right of appeal - 1909

"Take This Job and Shove It," by Johnny Paycheck, is listed by Billboard magazine as the most popular song in the U.S. - 1978

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