This Week's Quiz: Samuel Gompers, founding president of the American Federation of Labor in 1886, worked as: a carpenter; a barrel-stave maker; a cigar maker; a tinsmith. Click here and you could be next week's winner! Previous Quiz: Mark Twain was a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union (now the Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector of the Communications Workers of America). Congrats to Veronica Ordaz of PSC-CUNY, New York, NY, this week's quiz winner. “We want bread and roses too.”
From the signs women carried during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Mill Strike. Union City Radio: Weekdays, 7:15am – 7:20am; WPFW-FM 89.3 or click here.
Local Labor Communicators Meeting Fri, December 18, 9:15am – 11:00am; Union Privilege, 1100 First St NE, Washington, DC 20002 Free Informational DACA Clinic Fri, December 18, 6pm – 8pm; Calvary Baptist Church 755 8th St NW, Washington DC 20001 (One block from the Gallery Place Chinatown Metro) DC CBTU Shoebox Gift Wrapping & Year-end Reception Sat, December 19, 11:00am – 3:30pm; CWA (lobby level), 501 3rd Street NW, Washington, D.C. SEIU 400 Holiday Party Sat, December 19, 1pm – 8pm; 9700 Pennsylvania Avenue Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Walk with members of AFGE Local 445 (Transportation Security Officers) Sat, December 19, 1pm – 2pm; Dulles International Airport, 1 Saarinen Cir, Dulles, VA 20166 Trabajadores Unidos annual Xmas Party (Gran Fiesta Navideña) Sat, December 19, 6pm – 10pm; All Souls Unitarian Church 1500 Harvard St. NW Led by CWA/AFA President Sara Nelson chanting "No Justice, No Peace on Earth!", United flight attendants joined by Machinists, Pilots and other labor supporters marched outside the United terminal at Washington National Airport on Thursday. (A similar rally took place at Dulles Airport.) The informational picket was the local launch of an international campaign to call attention to the fact that United flight attendants have been working for more than 5 years -- since the merger with Continental -- without a contract. Prior to that, flight attendants were forced to give back pay and benefits when the predecessor United declared bankruptcy. Speaking to the marchers, Nelson (second from left) declared, "It's our turn!" after watching the merged United declare record profits and pay bonuses to executives, including a multi-million-dollar buyout of its deposed CEO. CWA/AFA plans to hold third Thursday actions until a new contract is reached. - report/photo by Dan Duncan |