This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
(audio) “Hey y’all. I just want to remind y’all ‘cause it’s been a little over three weeks, okay? It’s been a little over three weeks. Trump is now ordering, as in summonsing, federal government workers to go back to work without getting paid.” That’s Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, the American rapper better known as Cardi B, in a video that went viral last week: (audio) “This s*** is crazy. Like, our country is in a hellhole right now, all for a f****** wall. And we really need to take this serious. I feel like we need to take some action. I don’t know what kind of action, ‘cause this not what I do, but b**** I’m scared.” OK, maybe not exactly the way Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have put it, but on this day when we celebrate the life of the great civil rights leader, I think Miss B got it exactly right in carrying on King’s legacy of speaking unvarnished truth to power. To check out the original, unbleeped version, go to our website (Note, posted below) at dclabor.org or check our Facebook or Twitter feeds @dclabor For this week’s local labor events, go to dclabor.org, and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1946, 750,000 steel workers walked out in 30 states; it was the largest strike in U.S. history to that time. And on this date in 1974, postal workers began a four-day wildcat strike dubbed “The Battle of the Bulk” at a bulk mail facility in New Jersey, led by a group of young workers who identified themselves as “The Outlaws.” Today’s labor quote is by Dave Cline, one of the leaders of the 1974 postal strike, who was fired after the strike but won his job back and marched back into the plant in April 1978. Dave Cline, who said: “I played it to the hilt, I walked in down the main aisle, with my fists over my head-Rocky style,” 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. Sources: Cardi B Goes Off on Trump Over the Government Shutdown (uncensored) The 1978 Postal Wildcat The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
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