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Pittsburgh newspaper strike comes to DC

Freedom is on the ballot

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Pittsburgh Post Gazette Strike in DC: Tue, October 25, 12pm - 1pm; First Street Northeast & East Capitol Street Northeast, Washington, DC 20004, USA ([link removed] map)

Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, October 25, 5pm - 7pm; [link removed] REGISTER HERE

Maryland Labor Phone Bank: Tue, October 25, 6pm - 8pm; [link removed] RSVP HERE

Virginia Labor 2022 Virtual Phone Bank: Tue, October 25, 6pm - 8pm; [link removed] Register here

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Pittsburgh newspaper strike comes to DC

"I want to send a message to my courageous colleagues that I'm standing with them, and I'll do so from the nation's capital where I want to get back to covering democracy," says Ashley Murray, the striking D.C. Bureau Chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Please join me in supporting this just cause." Newsroom workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, represented by the [link removed] Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh on Oct. 18 joined their CWA union siblings who were [link removed] already on strike. The Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild is turning out at noon today "to support our siblings in this fight," with a picket at First Street NE and East Capitol Street NE. The owners of the Post-Gazette, Block Communications Inc., led by twin brothers John and Allan Block, "have spent millions of dollars to try to bust their workers' unions," says the WBNG, "rather than attempting to reach a fair contract with the writers, editors, photographers, artists, designers and other journalists whose hard work has provided the Pittsburgh community with award-winning journalism since the late 1700s." You can learn more about the workers' reasons for going on strike [link removed] here, donate to their strike fund [link removed] here and follow along [link removed] on Twitter.


Freedom is on the ballot

by Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO President

Make no mistake, freedom is on the ballot this November--freedom to vote, join a union, access reproductive health care and so much more.

Electing pro-worker candidates up and down the ballot will be critical to protecting our freedom to vote, make decisions over our own bodies both inside and outside of the workplace and ensure other important freedoms.

While the importance of congressional and governors' races is clear, it's also important to vote for state legislators, election officials, judges and other candidates who have an impact on the rights of working people.

We MUST elect candidates in the House and Senate who will protect those freedoms. Do you have a plan to vote? If not, [link removed] make one today!

Labor Quote: Samuel Gompers

"[T]he freedom of speech and of the press have not been granted in order that men may say the things that please, but to say the things that displease, which may convey the need of change and the unaccepted thought...."

Samuel Gompers (né Gumpertz; January 27, 1850 - December 13, 1924) was a British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The longest nurses' strike. Last week's show: [link removed] No Equal Justice.

After eight years and at least 1,000 worker deaths - mostly Irish immigrants - the 350-mile Erie Canal opens, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Father John Raho wrote to his bishop that "so many die that there is hardly any time to give Extreme Unction to everybody. We run night and day to assist the sick" - 1825 photo courtesy [link removed] The Wild Geese website


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