This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
In late 2018, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers went on strike, fighting for a new contract that would reduce workplace injuries, end forced overtime, and gain pay equity for women workers. On November 27th, the Canadian government forced postal workers back to work, defying Canada’s Charter of Human Rights. As the Canadian postal workers and their domestic and other international allies fight back, members of the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers are rallying today at 12:30pm at the Canadian Embassy at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue NorthWest. For complete details, and for all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1915, IWW member Ralph Chaplin, completed the writing of the labor anthem “Solidarity Forever” while in Chicago for a demonstration against hunger. He’d begun writing it in 1914 during a miners’ strike in Huntington, West Virginia. Here’s the first verse, sung by Tom Morello: (audio) When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong! Today’s labor quote is by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born on this date in 1929. Martin Luther King, who said: “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.” 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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