Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Union City's Chris Garlock hosts, with Joe McCartin, Leon Fink and Patrick Dixson. On this week's show: U.S. Supreme Court rules that undocumented workers don’t have the same rights as Americans; Sam Walton’s anti-union legacy; remembering Harry Bridges; Texas cowboys strike. PLUS: Saul Schniderman on Martin Luther King and striking sanitation workers in Memphis. Music this week includes “Glory,” with Common and John Legend, from the motion picture "Selma” and “A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke. Mother Jones is ordered to leave Colorado, where state authorities accuse her of “stirring up” striking coal miners - 1904 U.S. Supreme Court rules that undocumented workers do not have the same rights as Americans when they are wrongly fired - 2002 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services The workers of Revolution Messaging have formed a union, winning voluntary recognition of their efforts about an hour after they announced their plans. They will join the Washington-Baltimore local of The NewsGuild-CWA, which will represent them in collective bargaining. There will be approximately 60 people in the bargaining unit. Revolution Messaging is a media agency dedicated to digital storytelling for progressive causes. Read more here. The Metro Washington Council’s PG/Montgomery County Committee on Political Education is conducting primary election candidate interviews today starting at 9a at the ATU 689 union hall (see Calendar at right). Click here for candidate questionnaires.
This year’s LaborFest is coming together nicely — watch for details soon! — and volunteer slots are opening up! Please click here to let us know if you’re interested in volunteering this year. Volunteers pass out LaborFest program guides and sign up attendees for our raffles, and are entitled to free entry at the event plus a pair of passes to the DC Labor FilmFest. Deadline to respond is this Wednesday, March 28. photo of LaborFest volunteer at work; credit Chris Garlock |