This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Marvel Cooke, a Journalist for Working People. Last week’s show: Why America’s most radical union shut down ports on Juneteenth.
Alabama outlaws the leasing of convicts to mine coal, a practice that had been in place since 1848. In 1898, 73 percent of the state's total revenue came from this source. 25 percent of all black leased convicts died - 1928 The Walsh-Healey Act took effect today. It requires companies that supply goods to the government to pay wages according to a schedule set by the Secretary of Labor - 1936 The storied Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, a union whose roots traced back to the militant Western Federation of Miners, and which helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), merges into the United Steelworkers of America - 1967 Up to 40,000 New York construction workers demonstrated in midtown Manhattan, protesting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s awarding of a $33 million contract to a nonunion company - 1998 - David Prosten "You now have the tools to start a whole new life,” Darnell Goings told the latest group of graduates from the Community Services Agency's Building Futures (BF) Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Program last Friday. Goings (photo), a BF graduate, is now an apprentice with Operating Engineers Local 77. “There will be bad days for sure,” Going said, “but if you keep on forging ahead, you can support yourself and your family with these great jobs and careers in the construction industry." Students earned certifications in scaffolding, flagging, CPR and First Aid and OSHA 10, and received hands-on training with tools and equipment, and site visits to Museum Place in SW. CSA Client Services and BF Coordinator Sylvia Casaro Dietert reported that seven of the newly-minted graduates have already been offered on-the-job training positions. The 5-week program was a special partnership between CSA, ANC 6D, LOWE, Ward 6 Councilman Charles Allen's Office and DC Department of Parks and Recreation, which provided funding and program support.
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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Rally for Union Workers and the “American Jobs Plan”: Tue, June 29, 12pm – 2pm Third Street SW between Madison Dr. and Jefferson Dr.• National Mall, Washington, DC 20016 (map) RSVP HERE Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, June 29, 5pm – 7pm RSVP here Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, June 29, 5pm – 7pm Meeting for union members and community allies in Loudoun County Film: Who Killed Vincent Chin? Tue, June 29, 6pm – 8pm RSVP to [email protected]. Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Tue, June 29, 7:30pm – 9:00pm Meeting for union members and community allies in Alexandria. [Note change of date.] Contact [email protected] for the link. Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, June 30, 7pm – 9pm Meeting for union members and community allies in Fairfax County. There will be a discussion of public employee collective bargaining with Taylor Holland, chief of staff to Chair Jeff McKay. Missed last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here. NABET-CWA Local 31’s Barbara Krieger on workers under assault at Montgomery Community Television; former DC Jobs with Justice Executive Director Nikki Cole previews Wages, Benefits, and Fair Pay: 20 Years of DC JWJ panel. Plus: World premiere of Todd Smith’s “Scabby the Rat and Fatty the Cat” song and the latest labor news headlines. Photo of Folkworks Saul Schniderman discovered in an AFSCME songbook (1988). Left to right: Saul, David Sawyer and Carol Hausner. The original group was founded in 1975 by Carl Goldman to support the Washington Post Pressmen's Strike.
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