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Union City Radio for Wednesday, February 1

2/1/2017

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After a yearlong battle, state child welfare workers in Maryland have won fair pay. AFSCME Local 112 met with legislators, marched against management and “tirelessly” battled to increase the salaries for Child Welfare Social Workers. AFSCME Maryland said that “The fight for fair pay for all social workers and state employees continues!” adding “When we stand and fight together, we WIN!”

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1864, led by 23-year-old Kate Mullaney, the Collar Laundry Union formed in Troy, New York, and raised earnings for female laundry workers from $2 dollars a week to $14.

In 1913, some 25,000 Paterson, New Jersey silk workers struck for an 8-hour work day and improved working conditions. Eighteen hundred were arrested over the course of the six-month walkout, led by the Wobblies. They returned to work on their employers’ terms., but eventually, after a wave of shop strikes, the Paterson silk workers won the eight hour day in 1919.

Today’s labor quote is by IWW organizer "Big Bill" Haywood, about the Paterson silk strikers:
"Your power is in your folded arms. You have killed the mills; you have stopped production; you have broken off the profits."

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