"I was not able to see the Resisterhood film (last week's DC LaborFest screening) but would very much like to," writes UC reader Julie Barnet. "Is there a way I could watch it?" Absolutely; click here. “The pandemic has merely provided the administration another opportunity to continue its attacks on workers’ rights.”
Margaret Poydock is a policy associate at the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of their report “50 reasons the Trump administration is bad for workers.” This week’s Labor History Today podcast: “Despotism on Demand”
Sociologist Alex Wood on the history of the relationship between bosses and workers and how that’s playing out in the age of COVID-19. On Labor History in 2: The Wreck of The Old ‘97. Last week’s show: Escape on the Pearl; Black Labor Week A report by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the average weekly take home pay of a factory worker with three dependents is now $94.87 - 1962 - David Prosten click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report CANCELLED: CWA Worker Resource Fair: Mon, September 28 Virtual Phone Bank for Jennifer Wexton: Mon, September 28, 5:30pm – 7:30pm CLUW September Meeting: Mon, September 28, 7pm – 9pm “Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide”: Tue, September 29, 12:15pm – 1:15pm Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University Airport Union Caucus: Tue, September 29, 2pm – 3pm [Please note new date] Meeting for unions representing airport and airline workers Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, September 29, 5pm – 7pm Special Guest - County Chair Phyllis Randall Virtual Phone Bank for Abigail Spanberger: Tue, September 29, 5:30pm – 7:30pm MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (NC): Tue, September 29, 6pm – 9pm FILM: QUEEN SUGAR: Tue, September 29, 7pm – 9pm (will be done before debate!) Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here. Catch this week's Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: Thoroughbred Teamsters; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers; Crimes of Capital; RadioLabour |