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.
Rally with UNITE-HERE Local 7: Tue, April 11, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Rally with UNITE-HERE Local 7 and their members at the Baltimore Waterfront Marriott, 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202; these employees have been working without a raise for over a year.
Arts Union Caucus: Tue, April 11, 3pm – 4pm
Monthly meeting for unions representing the performing and broadcast arts.
Rally to Support Compass Workers at the World Bank: Wed, April 12, 4pm – 5pm
18th Street & H St. NW, Washington, DC (map)
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Tue, April 25: Labor Spring at Kalmanovitz
The Kalmanovitz Initiative will bring together a panel of workers and organizers in labor from within and without Georgetown and DC. CLICK HERE for details and to RSVP. |
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MLex employees unionize, seek voluntary recognition from LexisNexis
Workers at MLex and FTCWatch are seeking voluntary recognition as MLex Guild from LexisNexis and its parent company, RELX. MLex Guild, more than 20 workers at MLex and FTCWatch, will be a unit of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, part of the Communications Workers of America, and is comprised of employees based in Washington, San Francisco and New York. The unionization effort received unanimous support from eligible employees, who are seeking voluntary recognition from MLex and its owner RELX Group. RELX also owns Law360 – another prominent legal news service – whose employees unionized with the News Guild of New York in 2016. On Monday the Law360 Union said they are “ecstatic to welcome our MLex and FTCWatch colleagues to The NewsGuild. We know MLex Guild will improve these superb journalists’ working lives and bring positive changes to the organization as a whole, as our union has done here.”
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Labor Photo: Airport workers’ Easter prayers
“This Easter, Airport Service Workers at @reagan_airport & @dulles_airport are praying for Paid Sick Days & Healthcare,” tweeted 32BJ SEIU on Sunday. “Find out more about their struggles and how @MWAAHQ can help answer their prayers by visiting http://dcairports.org.” |
Labor Quote: Jackie Robinson
“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Robinson, the first black ballplayer hired by a major league team, played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbetts Field on this date in 1947. |
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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.
Ford Motor Company fires UAW union organizers, sparking a 10 day sit down (photo) that finally led Ford to start contract talks. – 1941
Police in Austin, Minn. tear-gas striking Hormel meatpacking workers. Seventeen strikers are arrested on felony riot charges - 1986
Some 25,000 marchers in Watsonville, Calif. show support for United Farm Workers organizing campaign among strawberry workers, others – 1997
David Prosten; photo courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library
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