“The time for change in America is now,” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka reminds us. “But,” he says, “that change can’t happen unless we make it happen—unless we vote today for the America we deserve.”
“Working people have been winning at the ballot box across the country,” Trumka reminds us. In the past year alone, we beat an anti-worker bigot in Alabama. We elected a pro-union veteran to Congress in Pennsylvania. And in Missouri, with more than two-thirds of the vote, we sent “right to work” into the trash heap of history. We’ve been winning here in the DMV too, from increasing the minimum wage to paid family leave and so much more. We can make change again by getting out to vote today. To find out who the best candidates for working people are, just go to dclabor.org, and click on Political Action. On today’s labor calendar, local labor activists will be at the doors and on the phones to turn out the union vote; for complete details on where you can get involved, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1922, a coal mine explosion in Spangler, Pennsylvania killed 79. The mine had been rated gaseous in 1918, but at the insistence of new operators it was rated as non-gaseous even though miners had been burned by gas on at least four occasions. Today’s labor quote is from “L’Internationale,” the anthem to international labor solidarity written by French transport worker and socialist Eugene Pottier, who died in Paris on this date in 1887 at the age of 71. Here’s a clip from a jazz swing version by Tony Babino: So comrades come on let’s go rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the whole darn human race Union City Radio is supported by Union Plus, where union members get special savings on auto insurance. Find out more at unionplus.org.
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