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LABOR CALENDAR

9/21/2018

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Labor to Labor 2018: AFL-CIO HQ phonebank (battleground states)
Friday, September 21
11:00am – 5:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 (Lewis Room)
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Labor to Labor 2018 walks:
Sat, September 22 & Sunday, September 23
Most start at 9a; click here for details
Montgomery and Prince George's counties, Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick, Howard, and Harford counties, and Virginia

Local groups launch coalition calling for short-term rental law

9/21/2018

“It’s Time, D.C.”, a coalition of local community groups, civic organizations, labor leaders and residents, launched an ad campaign this week “to voice the concerns of the thousands of city residents and neighborhoods that have been negatively affected by short-term rentals” and encourage the D.C. City Council to pass short-term rental legislation to protect neighborhoods and affordable housing. Members of the coalition include The D.C. Federation of Civic Associations, Unite Here! Local 25, AirbnbWatch and concerned residents. “As a single mom, finding an affordable home for my family in D.C. is a challenge and now commercial investors are buying up homes to rent on Airbnb reducing housing and raising rent citywide,” says Yukia Hugee (left) in the first ad of the campaign. “Leaders from major cities across the country like San Diego, San Francisco, New York, and Boston have enacted short-term rental laws to protect affordable housing and hold short-term rental platforms like Airbnb accountable,” says Lauren Windsor of AirbnbWATCH.

Labor Quote of the Day: Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

9/21/2018

“Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!”

Today's Labor History

9/21/2018

Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast.
September 21
Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners’ strike - 1896
Mother Jones leads a march of miners' children through the streets of Charleston, W. Va. - 1912
photo by Lewis W. Hine; a young mine worker in 1908 in the Turkey Knob Coal Mine, Macdonald, West Virginia.

National Football League Players Association members begin what is to become a 57-day strike, their first regular-season walkout ever - 1982

Members of five unions at the Frontier Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas begin what was to become the longest successful hotel strike in U.S. history. All 550 workers honored the picket line for the entirety of the 6-year, 4-month, 10-day fight against management’s insistence on cutting wages and eliminating pensions - 1991

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