This week’s Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery. Last week's show: “It Didn’t Start with Amazon: A Conversation About the History of Organized Labor in the South.” October 29 Wall street crashes – "Black Tuesday" – throwing the world's economy into a years-long crisis including an unemployment rate in the U.S. that by 1933 hit nearly 25 percent - 1929 October 30 Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs - 1986 October 31 George Henry Evans publishes the first issue of the Working Man’s Advocate, “edited by a Mechanic” for the “useful and industrious classes” in New York City. He focused on the inequities between the “portion of society living in luxury and idleness” and those “groaning under the oppressions and miseries imposed on them.” - 1829 Tennessee sends in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County. The miners revolted, burned the stockades, and sent the captured convicts by train back to Knoxville - 1891 After 14 years of labor by 400 stone masons, the Mt. Rushmore sculpture is completed in Keystone, South Dakota - 1941 The Upholsterers International Union merges into the United Steelworkers - 1949 Int'l Alliance of Bill Posters, Billers & Distributors of the United States & Canada surrenders its AFL-CIO charter and is disbanded - 1971 - David Prosten. “We don’t want a second Trump in Virginia,” said UNITE HERE 25 member Muhammad Khan as he door-knocked for labor in Virginia on Wednesday. "Virginia is already blue; we don’t want it red again,” Khan added. “With Democrats in power, minimum wages go up, we get good healthcare and schools and more unions so companies like Amazon won’t abuse people.” Khan lost his job at the Marriott Wardman because of the pandemic. Click here for details on how you can get involved in Labor 2021 Virginia. - David Stephen; photo by Camucha King (at left) click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report DC Council Redistricting Hearings: Ward 4: Thu, October 28, 10am – 12pm Details here. Take Action to Tell UNFI: Hands Off Our Health Care! We Deserve Pay Raises NOW! (New Carrollton): Thu, October 28, 11:30am – 12:30pm ; Shoppers #2618, 7790 Riverdale Rd, New Carrollton, MD (map) UFCW 400; Read more here. George Mason University Rally for Cleaners: Thu, October 28, 12pm – 1pm 4441 George Mason Blvd, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA (map) Rally at Merten Hall for justice and dignity for GMU cleaners - "Justice for Janitors." Voting rights and Economic Justice Freedom Walk: Thu, October 28, 12:30pm – 3:30pm 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA (map) Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, October 28, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Hosts: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893. Today's Guests: Congressman Andy Levin (D, MI), author Jack Metzgar, singer George Mann. Take Action to Tell UNFI: Hands Off Our Health Care! We Deserve Pay Raises NOW! (College Park): Thu, October 28, 5pm – 6pm Shoppers #2650, 4720 Cherry Hill Rd, College Park, MD (map) UFCW 400; Read more here. NoVA Labor Volunteer Phone Bank: Thu, October 28, 6pm – 8pm Calling fellow union members about this year's election. Please click the below link to register to help: Zoom Link For more info contact Bob Zabel. [email protected]. 317-489-2501 Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, October 28, 6pm – 7pm This will be a joint meeting with the Disabilities Caucus to discuss employment issues for workers with disabilities. Pride at Work: Thu, October 28, 7:15pm – 8:15pm Pride at Work is the AFL-CIO LGBTQ+ advocacy group. Everyone is welcome! NOTE: CLICK HERE for the complete NoVA Labor election activity calendar listings thru Election Day (11/2). Missed last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. This week's show: Xochitl Cobarruvias (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement LA chapter chair) on Latina Equal Pay Day; sportwriter Dave Zirin on the recent strike by women’s soccer players. |