The 24th annual Letter Carriers’ “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive is set for this Saturday, May 14. The food drive, sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, is the world’s largest one-day food drive, taking place in more than 10,000 cities and towns across the country. Participating in the food drive couldn’t be easier. Before your regular mail pickup tomorrow, just leave bags of non-perishable food items by your mailbox. Letter carriers will pick up the bags and —with help from retired letter carriers, other postal employees and countless volunteers — deliver the bags to local food agencies. Hunger affects some 50 million people around the country, including millions of children, seniors and veterans. Pantry shelves filled up through winter-holiday generosity often are bare by late spring. And, with most school meal programs suspended during summer months, millions of children must find alternate sources of nutrition. Because the nation’s 175,000 letter carriers visit every address in the country at least six days a week, they see the struggles in the communities they serve, and they believe it’s important to do what they can to help.
On today's labor calendar, Verizon strike picket lines continue today throughout the metro Washington area; UFCW Local 400 will be joining the F Street line at 10am this morning, followed by Jews United for Justice at noon, and then the Laborers will be on the L Street line at 3pm; go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for the latest list of locations and times. The DC LaborFest continues with a free screening of DREAM ON at noon today at the AFL-CIO. In an epic road trip, political comedian John Fugelsang speaks with fast-food workers and retirees, prisoners and entrepreneurs, undocumented immigrants and community organizers about their hopes, dreams, and daily struggles. And tonight you’ve got a choice between the DC UNITED UNION NIGHT, the REDES DVD preview release and There Is Power in a Union: A Labor Songs Vespers. And there’s a full schedule of LaborFest events over the weekend, including screenings of The Intern and Redes, a labor history bike tour, concerts by the DC Labor Chorus and Joe Uehlein, and the second annual Labor History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. As always, complete details on all of these events are at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here's today’s labor history: On this date in 1909, the Canadian government established the Department of Labour. It took the U.S. another four years. In 1980, United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser was named to the Chrysler board of directors, becoming the first union representative ever to sit on the board of a major U.S. corporation. And in 1998, thousands of yellow cab drivers in New York City went on a 1-day strike to protest proposed new regulations. Today’s labor quote is by Douglas Fraser “In every single democracy in the world you will find a vibrant, vital labor movement. The reason is that in a democratic society, where you have a system of checks and balances, a labor movement is absolutely indispensable. There will always be unions as long as there are bosses.”
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