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It was a “good news/bad news” night at Monday’s Metro Washington Council delegate meeting, with Council affiliates reporting on a number of wins at the bargaining tables but also many ongoing struggles.
Get complete details on our website at dclabor.org On today's labor calendar, catch this week's edition of Your Rights At Work here on WPFW from 1 to 2pm as we take your calls and talk about worker rights. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1991, members of five unions at the Frontier Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas began what was to become the longest successful hotel strike in U.S. history. All 550 workers honored the picket line for the entirety of the 6-year, 4-month, 10-day fight against management’s insistence on cutting wages and eliminating pensions. Today’s labor quote is by Mother Jones, who led a march of miners' children through the streets of Charleston, West Virginia on this date in 1912. Mother Jones, who said: "If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!" Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org. The American Federation of Government Employees and two top environmental groups last week launched a “Save the EPA” campaign to force lawmakers to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink.
AFGE is teaming up with the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation to protect the EPA from expansive budget cuts and internal restrictions imposed by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, an avowed climate change denier. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1887, steel-drivin’ man John Henry, born a slave, outperformed a steam hammer at either the Coosa Mountain Tunnel or the Oak Mountain Tunnel of the Columbus and Western Railway near Leeds, Alabama. Other researchers say the contest actually happened near Talcott, West Virginia. In any case, John Henry is a symbol of physical strength and endurance, of exploited labor, of the dignity of a human being against the degradations of the machine age, and of racial pride and solidarity. During World War II his image was used in U.S. government propaganda as a symbol of social tolerance and diversity. Today’s labor quote is by Upton Sinclair, the socialist and author of The Jungle, who was born in Baltimore on this date in 1878. Upton Sinclair, who said: "If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org. Off-the-record bargaining talks between The Washington Post and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild have failed to produce agreement on a new labor contract.
"That leaves us where we were when we left off some months ago," says Fredrick Kunkle, co-chair of the Guild’s bargaining unit at the Post. "Returning to the open bargaining table is a sign of how unsatisfactory the Post’s proposals have been." On today's labor calendar, Lane Windham will discuss her new book, "Knocking on Labor's Door" tonight at 6 at the Takoma Busboys and Poets. Highlighting the often-overlooked contributions of women, people of color, young workers, and southerners, Windham reveals how in the 1970s a newly diversified working class powered a new wave of private-sector union organizing efforts. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1981, half a million unionists converged on Washington D.C., for a Solidarity Day march and rally protesting Republican policies. Today’s labor quote is by Joe Glazer, the musician and labor educator often referred to as “Labor’s Troubadour,” who died on this date in 2006 at age 88. Joe Glazer, who sang in “The Mill Was Made of Marble”: "I dreamed that I had died, And gone to my reward, A job in heaven's textile plant, On a golden boulevard. The mill was made of marble, The machines were made of gold, And nobody ever got tired, And nobody ever grew old." Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org. |
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