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That’s UAW striker Jeff Beard on the White Marsh picket line Tuesday. The United Auto Workers and General Motors said Wednesday that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract that could end a monthlong strike that has idled G.M. plants across the Midwest and the South. Here’s Jeff, talking about the solidarity that helped the strikers hold strong over the last month (picketline audio). On today’s labor calendar, tune in at 1p for this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work, here on WPFW; then at 4, supermarket workers will rally for a contract in both Northwest DC and Alexandria; For complete details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. You can also get the latest local labor news by following us @dclabor on Facebook and Twitter In today’s labor history, on this date in 1950, the Salt of the Earth strike began by the mostly Mexican-American members of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union Local 890 in Bayard, New Mexico. Strikers' wives walked picket lines for seven months when their men were enjoined during the 14-month strike against the New Jersey Zinc Company. Today’s labor quote is from The Bible, Matthew 5:13, which says: "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you have a car, you don’t need to overpay for auto insurance. Union Plus Auto Insurance with SnapQuote helps you get quotes from multiple providers so you can get a great deal. Visit unionplus.org/auto.
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Hosted by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. On today's show: Jackie Parncutt, UAW striker, White Marsh transmission plant Jonathan Williams, UFCW 400, Update on contract negotiations at Safeway/Giant; 4p rallies today Damon Silvers, Policy Director and Special Counsel at the AFL-CIO, just returned from a 6-month teaching stint in the UK: reaction to Brexit deal Kelly Candaele, filmmaker: Tool to Improve Baseball Performance Has Become a Weapon Against the Players Al Neal; Nats in the World Series Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella. Just hours before their contract expired at midnight last night, local janitors won a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract.
The deal averted a strike by over ten thousand commercial office cleaners in the D.C. area. The janitors, members of 32BJ SEIU, waged an intensive campaign, holding 16 separate strike vote rallies over a two-week period throughout D.C., Montgomery County, Northern Virginia and Baltimore. As part of the large push, area politicians, including D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, rallied with janitors, who marched through downtown D.C. during rush hour two weeks in a row. Details will be released on Monday, October 20th, pending a ratification vote by union members. On today’s labor calendar, although some movement has been reported in the month-long UAW strike against GM, the picketline in White Marsh is scheduled to continue today from 6am to 2pm; For complete details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. You can also get the latest local labor news by following us @dclabor on Facebook and Twitter In today’s labor history, on this date in 1859, abolitionist John Brown led 18 men, including five free blacks, in an attack on the Harper's Ferry ammunition depot, the beginning of guerilla warfare against slavery. Today’s labor quote is by John Brown, who said: “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you have a car, you don’t need to overpay for auto insurance. Union Plus Auto Insurance with SnapQuote helps you get quotes from multiple providers so you can get a great deal. Visit unionplus.org/auto. (audio) That’s a familiar sound if you’ve been at a union picketline or rally, as demonstrators shake soda cans filled with beans or beads.
At last Thursday’s rally and march through downtown DC, SEIU 32BJ’s Maria Naranjo reminded the crowd of the origins of those noisemakers in the Justice for Janitors campaigns of the mid-Eighties… (audio) Contracts covering 10,000 area janitors expire at midnight tonight; follow us on Facebook and Twitter @dclabor for the latest updates. On today’s labor calendar, striking auto workers picket today from 6am to 2pm; and tonight at 6, we’ll screen the film Even The Rain in our Bread and Roses series at the Takoma Busboys and Poets as part of Films Across Borders: Stories of Water. For complete details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1883, the International Working People's Association was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Today’s labor quote is by John Sweeney, who headed SEIU, the service workers union, where the Justice for Janitors campaign originated. John Sweeney, who said: "The strategy of Justice for Janitors was to build a mass movement. . . . The campaigns addressed the special needs of an immigrant workforce, largely from Latin America. In many cities, the janitors' cause became a civil rights movement--and a cultural crusade.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you have a car, you don’t need to overpay for auto insurance. Union Plus Auto Insurance with SnapQuote helps you get quotes from multiple providers so you can get a great deal. Visit unionplus.org/auto. |
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