click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15a; WPFW-FM 89.3 Bread & Roses (Shirlington): Councilwoman (film) Tue, March 26, 6pm – 8pm Busboys and Poets (Shirlington) | 4251 South Campbell Avenue | Arlington, VA 22206 Tri-County COPE Tue, March 26, 7pm – 9pm American Legion, 6330 Crain Hwy, La Plata, MD UPCOMING Women, Equality, and the Future of Labor Wed, March 27, 8:30am – 10:00am Martin's/Bo Brooks at the Academy, Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium $100 & up; tickets/details Film: Trafficked in America Wed, March 27, 3pm – 5pm AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 RSVP here Honoring Union Women Wed, March 27, 6pm – 8pm House Building Room 140 Annapolis, MD SPECIAL GUESTS: Esther Lopez, UFCW Secretary Treasurer; Shawna Bader-Blau, Executive Director AFL-CIO Solidarity Center; Elise Bryant, CLUW President Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus Wed, March 27, 7:30pm – 9:30pm ADC Headquarters, 618 N. Washington St., Old Town Alexandria “Oh my God, it felt like heaven.” So said Loan Cao, a UFCW Local 400 member who works at Giant Food, after learning she had won her grievance. A 29-year Local 400 member works in the front end at Giant Food #795 in Springfield, VA., Loan was suddenly fired on December 11, 2018. She was alleged to have done something wrong when she was closing the store one night, but another employee who did the same thing received no discipline. With the help of her Local 400 representative, Bertha McKiver, Loan immediately filed a grievance, and eventually, the company settled, agreeing to reinstate Loan and writing her a back pay check for $6,800. She started work again on February 2. “When Giant told me I was fired, I was numb and couldn’t cry,” Cao said. “But when Bertha called me to say I got my job back, this time I cried and cried. I never expected my union to help me so well. I’m so very thankful.” Read more here. Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: Robert Cherney on Victor Arnautoff, the Russian-born artist who reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. And on this week’s “Cool things from the George Meany Labor Archives,” Alan, Chloe and Ben explore the AFL-CIO’s long push for national health insurance, with some fascinating documents from the Archives’ pamphlet collection. Interviews by Patrick Dixon and Allan Wierdak. graphic: Arnautoff's "City Life" mural at Coit Tower in San Francisco.
San Francisco brewery workers begin a 9-month strike as local employers follow the union-busting lead of the National Brewer’s Association and fire their unionized workers, replacing them with scabs. Two unionized brewers refused to go along, kept producing beer, prospered wildly and induced the Association to capitulate. A contract benefit since having unionized two years earlier, certainly worth defending: free beer - 1868 Labor history courtesy Union Communication Services. |