The People’s Climate Movement March is this Saturday, April 29th at noon. Here’s a quick rundown on labor-related events over the next few days. 
On Friday at 7pm, Joe Uehlein and the U-Liners are hosting a Reception for the Labor Contingent and Friends. That's at Johnny Pistolas, 2333 18th St NW. 
Saturday at 11am, the Labor Network for Sustainability meets at the U.S Department of Labor at 200 Constitution Ave. NW before joining the main march at noon. 
And on Sunday at 10am the People’ Climate Movement will meet to discuss strategies of how to build on the momentum of the march.
Complete details, as always, at dclabor.org, click on calendar.

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1914, a coal mine collapse at Eccles, West Virginia killed 181 workers... 
In 1924, 119 died in the Benwood, West Virginia, coal mine disaster... 
And in 1971, Congress created OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The AFL-CIO set April 28 as “Workers Memorial Day” to honor all workers killed or injured on the job every year.

Today’s labor quote is by Tony Mazzocchi, the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Tony Mazzocchi, who said
"Movements grow in desperate times. We are being born."
Mazzocchi was also a founder of the DC Labor FilmFest 17 years ago, which now anchors the annual DC LaborFest. He died in 2002. 

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​Virginia Delegates Alphonso Lopez and Paul Krizek will join hundreds of contracted service workers at both Reagan National Airport and Dulles who will walk off the job this morning on strike to protest federal labor violations charged against their employer, Huntleigh Corporation. The union is charging that the company surveilled, interrogated, arbitrarily disciplined a worker and fired a worker for lawfully protected activities. This will be the second time these Huntleigh workers have gone on strike.  
 
Today's labor calendar is jam-packed; here's a quick run-down: 
Clergy and community supporters will join the airport worker strike for a rally at 11 AM; get complete details on our website at dclabor.org, click on calendar. 
At noon, there's a free book event at the AFL-CIO, “Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The Radical Potential of Human Rights,” 
And then at 1 pm here on WPFW, catch this week's edition of “Your Rights at Work,” with me and Ed Smith and your calls, of course. 
At 2pm, find out about the “Fix It, Fund It, Make It Fair” campaign at Metro 
and at 6 tonight ONE DC and Empower DC team up for a People's Platform Forum: Wellness For People And The Earth. 
Details as always, on our website; dclabor.org, click on Calendar. 
 
Here's today's labor history: 
On this date in 1825, Boston carpenters staged the first strike for the 10-hour day;
In 1911, James Oppenheim's poem “Bread and Roses” was published in the IWW newspaper Industrial Solidarity.
In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, which listed “sexual perversion” - code for being gay -- as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants.
And in 1978, a cooling tower for a power plant under construction in Willow Island, West Virginia collapsed, killing 51 construction workers in what is thought to be the largest construction accident in U.S. history. OSHA cited contractors for 20 violations and the cases were settled for $85,000--about $1,700 per worker killed.

​Today's labor quote is by James Oppenheim, from his poem “Bread and Roses”  
As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days 
The rising of the women means the rising of the race 
No more the drudge and idler--ten that toil where one reposes 
But sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses!” 
 
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“I like to be where the action is,” Joyce Graham says. If anything, that’s an understatement. But it goes a long way toward explaining why the UFCW Local 400 member has kept working as a nurse at Kaiser Permanente into her late 70s, and is only now retiring this May. The decision wasn’t easy because Joyce loves nursing, her employer and her union so much. “It’s so nice to take care of people and see them get better, it’s rewarding,” she said. You can read our complete story at dclabor.org

On today's labor calendar:
Join Senator Bernie Sanders, progressive leaders, and striking low-wage workers for a rally this morning at 9:15am to “Tell Trump: workers need $15 and a union!” at First and Constitution Ave in Northeast DC.
Then at 11:30, check out “Muslim Americans in the Workplace: Melting Pot or Boiling Cauldron?” at the Woman's National Democratic Club. Tickets for the DC Labor and Employment Relations chapter luncheon are $30; go to dclera.org to order.
Last but not least, the 2017 DC LaborFest launches next Monday and you can get full details on the line-up of films, labor arts tours, musical performances and more at dclabor.org, click on LaborFest.
Monday night’s screening at AFI in Silver Spring is the brand-new film “In Dubious Battle,” based on the John Steinbeck novel and starring James Franco. And Tuesday don’t miss the free R&B and Jazz Night with Bev Holton and Lee Anderson at the Takoma Busboys and Poets.
Details, links and trailers on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1924, the U.S. House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution No. 184, a constitutional amendment to prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. The Senate approved the measure a few weeks later, but it was never ratified by the states and is still technically pending.  
In 1944, on the orders of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Army seized the Chicago headquarters of the unionized Montgomery Ward company after management defied the National Labor Relations Board.

Today’s labor quote is from “In Dubious Battle,” by John Steinbeck:
"They didn't hate a boss or a butcher. They hated the whole system of bosses, but that was a different thing. It wasn't the same kind of anger. And there was something else, Mac. The hopelessness wasn't in them. They were quiet, and they were working; but in the back of every mind there was conviction that sooner or later they would win their way out of the system they hated."

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