 Just two more days for this year's DC LaborFest! Tonight check out our free AFM Labor Jazz Showcase at the 14th Street Busboys and Poets and then tomorrow night don't miss the inspiring Hidden Figures at AFI's Silver Theatre. Great labor jazz and film to wrap up the best LaborFest yet; see you there!
LaborFest Today Labor Jazz Showcase : Tues, May 30, 5:00p Coming Up HIDDEN FIGURES: Wed, May 31, 7:00p AFM Labor Jazz Showcase Tues, May 30, 5:00pm-7:00pm; FREE 5-6p be part of the live audience for a [email protected] simulcast on WPFW 89.3 FM 6-7p Live set Busboys & Poets 14th Street; 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 SPONSORED BY THE MUSIC PERFORMANCE TRUST FUND FREE; RSVP here Sponsored by the Washington DC Federation of Musicians, AFM 161-710 The DC LaborFest wraps up with a full night of jazz starting with a live simulcast concert from 5-6p on WPFW 89.3FM with local jazz musicians from the Washington Musicians Union, including Bob Boguslaw on piano, Antonio Parker on saxophone, Percy Smith on drums and Paul Scimonelli on bass.  The 2017 edition of Labor 411 Washington, D.C. is hot off the press, offering more than 10,001 products and services that will enable ethical consumers to build a stronger America every time they open their wallets. “Labor 411 continues to lead the Ethical Consumer Movement, making it easy and fun for consumers to join the fight and support socially responsible businesses that treat their workers well,” said Metro Washington Council president Jackie Jeter. “The 2017 DC Directory is an essential resource for natives and visitors alike who want to shop their values in one of the finest cities in the world.” Labor 411 Washington, D.C. is produced in conjunction with the Metro Council. Copies of the Guide are being distributed to Council affiliates and allies throughout metro DC; additional copies can be ordered online.
 “At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.”
 The Ford Motor Company signs a "Technical Assistance" contract to produce cars in the Soviet Union, and Ford workers were sent to the Soviet Union to train the labor force in the use of its parts. Many American workers who made the trip, including Walter Reuther, a tool and die maker who later was to become the UAW's president, returned home with a different view of the duties and privileges of the industrial laborer - 1929
(Bye, America: The transfer of work to other countries has escalated since Reuther’s day. In this book, young readers learn that their contemporary, Brady, is proud of his dad and wants to be just like him, working at the factory and making useful things. But that dream dies when his dad goes to work one day and is told that the factory is closing and the work is being sent to China.) In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre (right), police open fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing ten and wounding more than 160 - 1937 The Ground Zero cleanup at the site of the World Trade Center is completed three months ahead of schedule due to the heroic efforts of more than 3,000 building tradesmen and women who had worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for the previous eight months - 2002 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services |
