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Subject Shuler: What’s at stake in the mid-term elections
Date November 7, 2022 10:48 AM
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Supermarket workers union deplores gun violence after fatal shootings

Shuler: What's at stake in the mid-term elections

Follow UMWA's new Twitter account for Warrior Met Coal Strike

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Maryland Labor to Labor Walks (multiple locations): Mon, November 7, 10:00am - 2:30pm
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Missed last week's Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast herehttps://anchor.fm/christopher-garlock/episodes/The-Future-We-Need-e1di2r6 : [link removed] Can the hotel workers' union save the Democrats?

Supermarket workers union deplores gun violence after fatal shootings

"We are heartbroken at the news of a deadly shooting at a Giant supermarket today," [link removed] tweeted UFCW 400 Friday. A security guard and a suspected shoplifter were killed in a [link removed] shooting Friday morning at a Giant grocery store in Oxon Hill, Maryland. "Our thoughts are with our @UFCW400 members, customers, and their families," said Local 400. "It seems crazy someone brought a gun in here," to shoplift, dairy stocker Daniel Crook [link removed] told WUSA9. "Our members deserve to feel safe at work and must have stronger protections against these senseless acts of violence. We spent the day on site to help our members through this tragedy and we will continue to do so in the aftermath of this horrific incident. This senseless gun violence must end and we will be taking steps to protect our members moving forward."


Shuler: What's at stake in the mid-term elections

What we do in the next two days "will determine whether we have pro-worker leaders in office who are going to fight for us, for our jobs and for our rights. That's what's at stake," says AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler. "This is about protecting our democracy and our right to vote. It's about whether or not you'll be able to get to the ballot box without intimidation, and whether your vote will be counted. Because if we don't protect our democracy, we can't fight for any of our other priorities." Shuler notes that "We can't control the polls or the lies our opponents put in ads, but we can control what we do, how many doors we knock, how many people we call, and how many co-workers, friends and family members and neighbors we talk to. Let's get out the vote and win this election."


Follow UMWA's New Twitter Account for Warrior Met Coal Strike

Hundreds of members of the Mine Workers (UMWA) have been on strike against Warrior Met Coal for nearly 600 days. Strikers are holding the line and the entire labor movement has their back. One of the best ways we can show our support for this strike is to follow, like and retweet posts from [link removed] @WarriorMetTruth on Twitter. To spread the word about this critical strike to a wider audience, the UMWA created a new Twitter account to focus solely on the strike. Join them in solidarity online and help lift up their struggle for a fair contract.

- AFL-CIO Daily Brief

Labor Quote: Pat Moran
"Let's show up on Tuesday, let's get the job done, and let's build a better future for all Marylanders!"

AFSCME Maryland Executive Director Pat Moran, at Saturday's Immigrant & Union Rally with Wes Moore & Aruna Miller in Wheaton.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Who belongs in the labor movement? Last week's show: [link removed] Pride on the line.

Lemuel Ricketts Boulware dies in Delray Beach, Fla. at age 95. As a GE vice president in the 1950s he created the policy known as Boulwarism, in which management decides what is "fair" and refuses to budge on anything during contract negotiations. IUE President Paul Jennings described the policy as "telling the workers what they are entitled to and then trying to shove it down their throats." - 1990


President Eisenhower's use of the Taft-Hartley Act is upheld by the Supreme Court, breaking a 116-day steel strike - 1959

Some 1,300 building trades workers in eastern Massachusetts participated in a general strike on all military work in the area to protest the use of open-shop (a worksite in which union membership is not required as a condition of employment) builders. The strike held on for a week in the face of threats from the U.S. War Department - 1917

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