When North Texas working families win on November 8, AFL-CIO activists will deserve a lot of the credit. Dallas AFL-CIO is canvassing door-to-door every Saturday and phone banking every day . Instructions are on a Zoom call every Monday and Wednesday. Tarrant activists also canvass on Saturdays and phone bank every day. Contact jtomlinson.dallasaflcio@gmail.com for Dallas or angi.defelippo@tcclc.org for Tarrant. Both counties are coordinated by Texas AFL-CIO. Contact marilyn@texasaflcio.org.
The state federation is conducting its own statewide programs. Contact lorraine@texasaflcio.org. The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans is concentrating on older voters. Contact judy4tara@aol.com.
If you need motivation about labor’s importance in politics, consider that the National Labor Relations Board is moving to force Exxon/Mobile to pay $millions$ in back pay to the refinery workers they locked out last year in Beaumont. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has already ruled that the big oil company has to pay hundreds of thousands in damages to two scientific whistleblowers that they fired. The NLRB and OSHA listen to labor when our candidates are in office!
On the negative side, consider that the Trump-pumped Supreme Court is considering a case that would allow companies to sue striking workers for damages. They may also tear more holes in the Voting Rights Act by letting Alabama get away with under-representing their Black population.
Critical retiree endorsements have recently been added to the AFL-CIO approvals of such progressive North Texans as Jan McDowell, Colin Allred, Marc Veasey, Elva Curl, Elizabeth Ginsberg, and Francine Ly.
Good News for Working Families
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 263,000 in September, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Hispanics decreased to 3.8 percent in September. The jobless rates for adult men (3.3 percent), adult women (3.1 percent), teenagers (11.4 percent), Whites (3.1 percent), Blacks (5.8 percent), and Asians (2.5 percent) showed little change over the month.
Celebrate Joe Hill
Labor’s martyr, songwriter Joe Hill, was born October 7, 1879 in Sweden. He was executed in 1915 in Utah. Some of his last words are forever etched in the hearts of those who care about working families, “Don’t mourn. Organize!”
MORE ACTIONS COMING UP
Oct 8, 9:30A: Dallas block walking with labor every Saturday from 1408 N Washington. Sign up here or contact jtomlinson.dallasaflcio@gmail.com or marilyn@texasaflcio.org
Oct 8, 10A: Tarrant County block walking with labor every Saturday from UAW276, 2505 W.E. Roberts in Grand Prairie. RSVP Here. Daily phone banking Mon-Fri also from UAW276. Contact Angi at 817-284-1461
Oct 10, 6P: (Every Monday and Wednesday) Zoom call for instructions for labor’s phone banking from home. Contact jtomlinson.dallasaflcio@gmail.com
Oct 13, 6:30P: (Every Monday and Wednesday) Zoom call for instructions for labor’s phone banking from home. Contact jtomlinson.dallasaflcio@gmail.com for instructions for labor’s phone banking from home. Contact jtomlinson.dallasaflcio@gmail.com
Oct 13: Social Security beneficiaries can expect an official announcement of 2023’s COLA increase
Oct 17: Special union election ballots go out to all UAW members & retirees. UAWD
Oct 18, 9-11A: Congresswoman Johnson’s final prayer breakfast at Dallas Symphony. You can RSVP by Sept 23 by emailing your (First & Last Name) accompanied by your affiliated organization to ebjprayerbreakfast2022@gmail.com
Oct 20: 11A: TARA election turnout picnic at Head’s Park in Carrollton. Contact judy4tara@aol.com
Oct 20, 7:30P: Dallas AFL-CIO delegates’ meeting at 1408 N Washington
Oct 22: Bonnie Mathias’ birthday
Oct 24, 10A: “Vote Early” rally at 600 Commerce downtown Dallas
Oct 24: Trump Organization goes on trial in New York
Oct 28: Deadline for county elections departments to receive vote-by-mail applications for general election
Nov 8: General election