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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, February 2, 8:15am – 9:15am Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria, VA. (map) What Does Transit Equity Mean for Transit Workers? Wed, February 2, 12pm – 1pm Livestream in preparation for 2022 Transit Equity Day; RSVP HERE Arts Union Caucus: Wed, February 2, 3pm – 4pm RSVP HERE Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, February 3, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. THIS WEEK'S GUESTS: ATU Local 689 President Jackson and LNS Maryland Director Elizabeth Bunn on Transit Equity Day; Michael Honey on "Revolutionary Nonviolence, Organizing for Freedom" and The Checkout Podcast host Errol Schweizer. Memorial Mass for AFL-CIO President John Sweeney*: Thu, February 3, 6:30pm – 7:30pm St. Camillus, 1600 St. Camillus Drive in Silver Spring MD. *on the first anniversary of his death. Labor Book Club: Thu, February 3, 7pm – 8pm RSVP HERE click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Building a Diverse, Equitable Infrastructure Workforce; Mon, January 31, 1pm – 2pm RSVP HERE Solidarity Call with Bessemer, Alabama; Mon, January 31st, 2:30 pm RSVP by registering on this link. “The Persistence of Private Power: Sacrificing Rights for Wages": Tue, February 1, 9:00am – 10:30am Register here. Talk: Black Labor in Richmond (online): Tue, February 1, 7pm – 8pm Zoom via Facebook; details here. Wednesdays with Warner; Wed, February 2, 8:15 am Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria, VA. Arts Union Caucus; Wed, February 2, 3 pm Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, February 3, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Labor Book Club, Thu, February 3, 7pm Missed last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. Erica Smiley (Jobs with Justice) and Sarita Gupta (Ford Foundation's Future of Work) on their new book, “The Future We Need, Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century,” plus 1199SEIU organizer James Crosby on “Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They’re quitting in droves.” January 31 12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Tex. – mostly Latino women – walk off their jobs at 400 factories in what was to become a three-month strike against wage cuts. Strike leader Emma Tenayuca (in photo above) was eventually hounded out of the state - 1938 After scoring successes with representation elections conducted under the protective oversight of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the United Farm Workers of America officially ends its historic table grape, lettuce and wine boycotts - 1978 Union and student pressure forces Harvard university to adopt new labor policies raising wages for lowest-paid workers - 2002 February 1 John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009, dies at age 86. The son of Irish immigrants — his father was a bus driver, his mother a domestic worker — Sweeney worked for the Intl. Ladies Garment Workers then the Service Employees, where he served as president, before his time at the AFL-CIO - 2021 Led by 23-year-old Kate Mullaney, the Collar Laundry Union forms in Troy, N.Y, raises earnings for female laundry workers from two dollars to 14 dollars a week - 1864 25,000 Paterson, NJ silk workers strike for eight-hour work day and improved working conditions. 1,800 were arrested over the course of the six-month walkout, led by the Wobblies. They returned to work on their employers’ terms - 1913 - 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 Coalition to Repeal Right to Work: Fri, January 28, 7pm – 8pm FILM: Nae pasaran (London Labour Film Festival); Thru Feb 4, 2022 Building a Diverse, Equitable Infrastructure Workforce: Mon, January 31, 1pm – 2pm; RSVP HERE Missed this week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. Erica Smiley (Jobs with Justice) and Sarita Gupta (Ford Foundation's Future of Work) on their new book, “The Future We Need, Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century,” plus 1199SEIU organizer James Crosby on “Low-wage workers prop up the nursing home industry. They’re quitting in droves.” |