If you – or someone you know – is a TPS – Temporary Protected Status -- recipient and are wondering what’s going on with the TPS lawsuits and upcoming termination dates, Working Families United, a coalition of seven unions, is hosting a legal clinic this Sunday to get you the answers you need. Find out your options and hear what other TPS holders and unions are doing right now to protect TPS. Individual consultations will be provided to answer specific questions and screen for qualifications for any other status or form of relief; RSVP to reserve your spot by emailing [email protected]

On our weekend labor calendar,
The film “Daughters of the Dust” screens free tomorrow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the film is a languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America. 
Jews United For Justice's annual Labor Seder is this Sunday starting at 5pm;
Complete details, as always, on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

In today’s labor history, the “Battle of Wall Street,” took place on this date in 1948, as police charged members of the United Financial Employees’ Union, who were on strike against the New York Stock Exchange and New York Curb Exchange (now known as the American Stock Exchange). Forty-three workers were arrested in what was to be the first and only strike in the history of either exchange.

Today’s labor quote is by Harry Bridges, the Australian-born dock union leader who died at age 88 on this date in 1990. Harry helped form and lead the International Longshore and Warehouse Union for 40 years.
Harry Bridges, who said: “The most important word in the language of the working class is ‘solidarity’”

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Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
Hosted by Chris Garlock
DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them.
 
HOUR 1: 1-2P
Painters DC 51’s Roxie Mejia (below left) on Sunday’s legal clinic for union workers with TPS; PAI’s Mark Gruenberg with latest labor news headlines. Plus listener calls.

HOUR 2: 2-3P
Two historic 1970 strikes: APWU’s Clint Burelson (below right) on the wildcat by 200,000 postal workers and Len Shindel on the strike by 150 Garrett County roads workers in western MD. Plus listener calls.

Music
DC Labor Chorus: None of Us Are Free
Bev Grant and the Brooklyn Women's Chorus: We Were There

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus.

(audio) “There is much more separation in the U.S. economy between what high paid blue collar workers make and what high paid white collar workers make.”
That’s Congressman Marc Veasey of Texas, on the latest episode of the AFL-CIO’s “State of the Unions” podcast. Marc is one of the co-chairs of the House Blue Collar Caucus…
(audio) “And so in order to erase those discrepancies and those gaps we need to really be able to address income inequality. And I like what our good friend Joe Kennedy talked about in an interview that he did recently...the capitalism of today isn't the same capitalism of yesterday. It used to be when companies like General Motors and others would do very well that the company always put that money back into the workers...it wasn't all about what the shareholders wanted. And now there seems to be so much more of an emphasis on shareholders in this country.”
Catch “State of the Unions” on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.

On today’s labor calendar, we’ll re-visit two historic strikes on today’s edition of Your Rights At Work, starting at 1pm here on WPFW. Both took place in 1970, one by 200,000 postal workers, the other by 150 Garrett County Roads Department workers in Western Maryland. Plus all the latest labor news and your calls.
And at 3pm, catch a performance of We Were There, either at the AFL-CIO or broadcast live right here on WPFW.
Complete details, as always, on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

In today’s labor history, on this date in 1935, members of Gas House Workers’ Union Local 18799 began what would become a 4-month strike against the Laclede Gas Light Company in St. Louis. The union later said the strike was the first ever against a public utility in the United States.

Today’s labor quote is by Martin Luther King, Jr., who led a march of striking sanitation workers, members of AFSCME Local 1733, in Memphis, Tennessee on this date in 1968. Violence during the march persuaded him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated.
Martin Luther King, who said:
“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”

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“Oh my God, it felt like heaven.” So said Loan Cao, a UFCW Local 400 member who works at Giant Food, after learning she had won her grievance. A member of Local 400 for 29 years, Loan works at Giant Food #795 in Springfield, Virginia. She was fired suddenly last December, accused of doing something wrong when she was closing the store one night, but another employee who did the same thing received no discipline. With the help of her Local 400 representative, Bertha McKiver, Loan immediately filed a grievance, and eventually, the company settled, agreeing to reinstate Loan and writing her a back pay check for almost $7,000 dollars. She started work again on February 2. “When Giant told me I was fired, I was numb and couldn’t cry,” Cao said. “But when Bertha called me to say I got my job back, this time I cried and cried. I never expected my union to help me so well. I’m so very thankful.”
You can see a photo of Cao on our website at dclabor.org.

On today’s labor calendar, catch a free screening of the film “Trafficked in America” this afternoon at 3pm at the AFL-CIO,
then at 7 tonight there’s a UC Strike Support Protest and Politics & Prose; Complete details, as always, on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

In today’s labor history, on this date in 2002 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that undocumented workers do not have the same rights as Americans when they are wrongly fired.

Today’s labor quote is by Mother Jones, who was ordered to leave Colorado on this date in 1904; state authorities there accused her of “stirring up” striking coal miners. Mother Jones, who said:
“You will not be serfs, you will march, march, march on from milestone to milestone of human freedom, you will rise like men in the new day and slavery will get its death blow. It has got to die.”

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