Nearly 1,000 game dealers at MGM National Harbor have become the newest members of UAW Region 8. “Dealers at MGM National Harbor were eager to form their own union and worked hard to do just that,” said UAW Region 8 Director Mitchell Smith. “We are happy to welcome them into the UAW family and look forward to them bargaining their first contract.” Region 8 covers 12 states in the Southeast, plus DC and four Pennsylvania counties.
On today’s labor calendar, the annual Great Labor Arts Exchange begins today out at the Tommy Douglas Conference Center in Silver Spring. This four-day event includes labor workshops, films, music, spoken word, jam sessions and open mike. Everyone’s encouraged to bring your instrument, voice, beat box, song, poem, story or just yourself! For complete details, go to dclabor.org, and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1997, 100,000 unionists and other supporters marched in solidarity with striking Detroit News and Detroit Free Press newspaper workers. Hear more on this week’s Labor History Today podcast, available on your favorite podcast platform, just search for Union City Radio. Today’s labor quote is by Joe Hill, the Swedish-American labor activist and songwriter, who said: “A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org!
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