Today’s Labor Calendar
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Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM
2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.
Prince George's and Montgomery County COPE Meeting: Mon, April 10, 10am – 11am
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Rally with UNITE-HERE Local 7: Tue, April 11, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Baltimore Waterfront Marriott, 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
Rally to Support Compass Workers at the World Bank: Wed, April 12, 4pm – 5pm
18th Street & H St. NW, Washington, DC (map)
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World Bank food service workers going hungry
Food service workers at the World Bank struggle to afford necessities like food and housing, according to survey results released last Thursday by UNITE HERE Local 23. Six percent had been evicted, 33% worked a second job, 25% skipped meals because they didn’t have money to buy food and 27% skipped going to the doctor or taking medicine prescribed by a doctor because they could not afford it. Workers are in negotiations for new union contracts that keep up with the cost of living and additionally announced a picket line action on the Compass-operated cafeteria at the World Bank on Wednesday, April 12. “Compass cafeteria workers feed some of the most prestigious and influential institutions in our nation’s Capital,” said UNITE HERE International President D. Taylor, “yet they’re struggling to pay their bills. Compass is the largest food service contractor in the US. Food service workers have been really whacked by inflation, but workers are in a position of power right now to advocate for change. We plan to fight hard to turn these jobs, and all hospitality jobs, into jobs you can live on in DC.” Read more here.
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Labor Photo: Solidarity with Carlos
At the 9th Street Union Kitchen Friday; supporters demanded that Union Kitchen reinstate Carlos, a longtime and beloved employee who was fired after wearing a union button. |
Labor Quote: Frances Perkins
“I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.”
Perkins, born on this date in 1880, was named Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office. photo: Perkins meets with workers. |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Tom Breiding’s songs of struggle. Last week’s show: The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike.
133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa., near Chester. Fifty-five of the dead were never identified – 1917
Birth of Dolores Huerta, a co-founder, with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers – 1930
Tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrate in 100 U.S. cities in a national day of action billed as a campaign for immigrants’ dignity. Some 200,000 gathered in Washington, D.C. – 2006
David Prosten; photo of Tom Breiding by Chris Garlock/Union City
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