News: The Metro Washington Council and UFCW Local 400 joined other winners in the International Labor Communications Association’s Labor Media Awards last month at the AFL-CIO. The Metro Council's “Union City" won first place in the General Excellence - Electronic Newsletter category for 2014, while UFCW Local 400 collected an impressive seven awards, including five first places at a luncheon on Dec. 12. ILCA Executive Council President Kathy Cummings said that “All of this year’s winners truly exemplify our goal of amplifying labor’s voice around the world.”
Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1882, the Toronto Trades and Labour Council endorsed the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and women. In 1916, eight thousand workers struck at Youngstown Sheet & Tube. The following day the strikers’ wives and other family members joined in the protest. Company guards used tear gas bombs and fired into the crowd, killing three strikers and wounding 25. Today’s labor quote is by President Jimmy Carter: “Every advance in this half-century--Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another--came with the support and leadership of American Labor.”
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