As the Verizon strike approaches its fourth week, CWA headquarters staff will join the picket line at the L Street Verizon Wireless store today at 5p and urge all area activists to join them. Plans are underway for a massive Verizon National Day of Action on Thursday; we’ll have updates later in the week. Meanwhile, CWA Local 2108 has confirmed daily pickets starting at 10a at Verizon Wireless locations in Rockville, Gaithersburg, College Park, and Germantown. CWA 2336 has confirmed this week’s picketing schedule at the Verizon Wireless stores on F and 13th and L and 17th, Monday through Friday 10a to 2p and 3pm to 7pm.
Get up-to-date details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. On today’s labor calendar, the DC LaborFest continues tonight with a free screening of “Harvest of Empire” at 6pm at the Hyattsville Busboys and Poets and the final showing of “Trumbo” at the AFI Silver Theatre at 7pm; Check out the whole line-up at dclabor.org; click on LaborFest. And for other local labor events, just click on the calendar at dclabor.org Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1886, four striking workers were killed, and at least 200 wounded, when police attacked a demonstration on Chicago’s south side at the McCormick Harvesting Machine plant. The Haymarket Massacre would take place the following day. In 1895, Eugene Debs and other leaders of the American Railway Union were jailed for six months for contempt of court in connection with the Pullman railroad car strike. And in 1919, folksinger and union activist Pete Seeger was born in Patterson, N.Y. Among his songs: “If I Had A Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” Today’s labor quote is by Pete Seeger “A good song reminds us what we’re fighting for.” Pete Seeger, who also said, “If there’s something wrong, speak up!”
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