This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Sacco and Vanzetti; Midnight in Vehicle City. Last week's show: Trumka on the future of American labor.
August 26 Fannie Sellins and Joseph Starzeleski are murdered by coal company guards on a picket line in Brackenridge, Penn. Sellins was a United Mine Workers of America organizer and Starzeleski was a miner - 1919 After 20 months of bargaining, United Airlines reaches a tentative accord with the Air Line Pilots Assn., representing 10,000 pilots - 2000 More than 1,300 bus drivers on Oahu, Hawaii begin what is to become a five week strike - 2003 August 27 Some 14,000 Chicago teachers who have gone without pay for several months finally collect about $1,400 each - 1934 August 28 President Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike. The railroads were not returned to their owners until two years later - 1950 Baxter Leach, a union activist who helped organize the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, dies in the city at age 79. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in Memphis while there to support the strikers. 2019 The march for jobs and freedom—the Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream" speech march—is held in Washington, D.C. with 250,000 participating – 1963 August 29 Dancers at San Francisco’s Lusty Lady Club vote 57-15 to be represented by SEIU Local 790. Their first union contract, ratified eight months later, guaranteed work shifts, protection against arbitrary discipline and termination, automatic hourly wage increases, sick days, a grievance procedure, and removal of one-way mirrors from peep show booths - 1996 Northwest Airlines pilots, after years of concessions to help the airline, begin what is to become a two-week strike for higher pay - 1998 Delegates to the Minnesota AFL-CIO convention approve the launching of workdayminnesota.org. It was the first web-based daily labor news service by a state labor federation - 2000 - David Prosten click here for complete and latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Wednesdays with Warner for the PRO Act: Wed, August 25, 8:15am – 9:15am Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria at 8:15 am. The Painters Union will hold up their banner outside the Senator's district office at 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna at 8:30 am. Contact [email protected] and [email protected] for details. Your Rights at Work: Thu, August 26, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, August 26, 6pm – 8pm Meeting of union members and friends of labor in Arlington. For more information contact [email protected]. NoVA Labor Pride at Work: Thu, August 26, 7:15pm – 8:15pm Contact [email protected] for more information. March On for Voting Rights DC: Sat, August 28, 8am – 3pm McPherson Square, 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA (map) AFSCME Maryland members joined together with labor unions, civil rights and community leaders at last Saturday’s Fighting For Our Vote rally, “fighting back against the assault on voting access,” tweeted AFSCME Maryland. “We need your power and the power of your community to win.” Click here for more on this Saturday’s March On for Voting Rights.
Union Night at Camden Yards is back! The event will be held on Friday, September 10th at the Orioles vs. Toronto Blue Jays game, beginning at 7:05pm. Tickets are $12 each and the initial purchase is a minimum of 50. A portion of the ticket sales - $3 per ticket - will benefit AFL-CIO Community Services of Central Maryland. If you’re interested in attending, contact your local union; if your local has any questions about purchasing tickets, they can email [email protected]. |