This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
(Cox audio) That was J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, at Wednesday night’s rally for federal workers at the Silver Spring Civic Center. Hundreds of workers and their allies cheered lawmakers who blasted President Donald Trump’s lockout of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. And they also listened, raptly, to federal workers, who said all they wanted to do was get back to their jobs serving the American people. An even bigger rally was held yesterday at the AFL-CIO and we’ll have a report on that on Monday’s Union City Radio. On today’s labor calendar, Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker is hosting a Shutdown Social tonight starting at 6:30pm at Montgomery Blair High School, with food provided by local restaurants and music hosted by Joe Uehlein. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1937, nearly two weeks into a sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, workers battled police when they tried to prevent the strikers from receiving food deliveries from thousands of supporters on the outside. Sixteen strikers and spectators and 11 police were injured. Most of the strikers were hit by buckshot fired by police riot guns; the police were injured principally by auto parts thrown at them. The incident became known as the “Battle of the Running Bulls” Today’s labor quote is by novelist Jack London, born on January 12, 1876. Here’s his classic definition of a scab—someone who would cross a picket line and take a striker's job: "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles" Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. To learn more about how Union Plus is helping federal workers impacted by the government shutdown and to apply for assistance, visit unionplus.org.
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