(audio) That’s a familiar sound if you’ve been at a union picketline or rally, as demonstrators shake soda cans filled with beans or beads.
At last Thursday’s rally and march through downtown DC, SEIU 32BJ’s Maria Naranjo reminded the crowd of the origins of those noisemakers in the Justice for Janitors campaigns of the mid-Eighties… (audio) Contracts covering 10,000 area janitors expire at midnight tonight; follow us on Facebook and Twitter @dclabor for the latest updates. On today’s labor calendar, striking auto workers picket today from 6am to 2pm; and tonight at 6, we’ll screen the film Even The Rain in our Bread and Roses series at the Takoma Busboys and Poets as part of Films Across Borders: Stories of Water. For complete details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1883, the International Working People's Association was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Today’s labor quote is by John Sweeney, who headed SEIU, the service workers union, where the Justice for Janitors campaign originated. John Sweeney, who said: "The strategy of Justice for Janitors was to build a mass movement. . . . The campaigns addressed the special needs of an immigrant workforce, largely from Latin America. In many cities, the janitors' cause became a civil rights movement--and a cultural crusade.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you have a car, you don’t need to overpay for auto insurance. Union Plus Auto Insurance with SnapQuote helps you get quotes from multiple providers so you can get a great deal. Visit unionplus.org/auto.
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