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Friday, November 28, 2014

11/28/2014

News: Standing with the brave Walmart workers who are going on strike today on Black Friday is easy, and it’s important...Today’s labor history: On this date in 1953, some 400 New York City photoengravers working for the city’s newspapers, and supported by 20,000 other newspaper unionists, began what was to become an 11-day strike, shutting down the papers...Labor quote by Roger Baldwin: “Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below."

Thursday, November 27, 2014

11/27/2014

News: The nation’s largest guide for savvy buyers who want to shop union is expanding to the nation’s capital. Labor 411 last week launched its Washington, DC online edition at labor411.org...Today’s labor history: in 1937, the pro-labor musical revue, “Pins & Needles,” opened on Broadway with a cast of International Ladies Garment Workers Union members...Today’s labor quote by Congresman William Clay: “If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat's food.”

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

11/26/2014

News: At hundreds of Black Friday actions this Friday – including five in the metro DC area -- activists will be out in force..You can show your gratitude and support for union members this Thanksgiving by preparing and serving a union-made holiday dinner...Today’s labor history: in 1910, six young women burned to death and 19 more died when they leapt from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, New Jersey...Labor quote by Saul Alinsky: “I tell people the hell with charity, the only thing you'll get is what you're strong enough to get."

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

11/25/2014

News: In the end, victory for workers at Tito Construction came quickly...There’s more interest in food these days than ever, but what about the hands that pick it? The new film “Food Chains” reveals the ongoing struggle for justice in our nation’s fields...Today’s labor history: On this date in 1883, some 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, participated in a solidarity parade...Today’s labor quote by John L. Lewis: “No tin hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes"...

Monday, November 24, 2014

11/22/2014

News: Months of negotiations yielded a tentative agreement for workers at Shoppers Food & Pharmacy last Wednesday...Gloria Minott will host a special show on longtime local labor and community activist Roger Newell today starting at 11 a.m. on WPFW...Today at 5 pm you can support striking Fairpoint workers at a rally at the JW Marriott at 14th and Pennsylvania...Today’s labor history: On this date in 1875, led by Samuel Gompers, who would later found the American Federation of Labor, Cigarmakers International Union Local 144 was chartered in New York City...Today’s labor quote by Sam Gompers: “We are powerless in an isolated condition, while the capitalists are united..."

Friday, November 21, 2014

11/21/2014

Labor news: The Metro Washington Council is calling on elected officials in Montgomery County to oppose the privatization of the Department of Liquor Control...History: in 1942, the 1,700-mile-long Alaska Highway was completed...in 1942, the United Auto Workers Union struck 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities...in 2009, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act took effect in the nation’s workplaces...Labor quote by Joseph Pulitzer: “The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.”

Thursday, November 20, 2014

11/20/2014

Labor news: Dozens of Washington Post staffers, fellow Guild members and supporters tramped in a tight noontime picket-line Tuesday bundled up in winter coats, hats and scarves against the biting cold...History: This date in 1816 saw the first use of the term “scab” to describe strikebreakers by the Albany Typographical Society…in 1888, the time clock was invented...in 2008, the Great Recession hit high gear ... Labor quote by writer Jack London: “After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab..."

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

11/19/2014

News: DC Healthy Start supporters welcomed the news last week that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the DC Department of Health nearly $8 million dollars...Labor history: On this date in 1915, labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was executed in Utah; In 1981, the National Writers Union was founded...Labor quote by Joe Hill: “If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains..."

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

11/18/2014

News: Washington Post workers return to the picketline today at 12:30p...We’re very sad to report that longtime labor activist Roger Newell died last Friday night, apparently of a heart attack...Labor history: On this date in 1919, Seattle printers refused to print an anti-labor ad in the newspaper; In 1958, thirty-one men died on Lake Michigan with the sinking of the Carl D. Bradley...Labor quote by Clarence Darrow: “Some day, there will come the brotherhood of man..."

Monday, November 17, 2014

11/14/2014

Labor News: Cheers went up from hundreds of postal workers last Friday when the resignation of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe was announced…And with bargaining continuing with Shoppers supermarkets, UFCW Local 400 reports that the union’s bargaining advisory committee has now visited every store in the area… today’s labor history: On this date in 1785, the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York was founded…in 1916, to the huge relief of Post Office Department employees, the service set a limit of 200 pounds a day to be shipped by any one customer…Today’s labor quote is by writer Linda Weltner: “We live in a business culture that exalts competition…”

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