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Report questions MD hospitals' community health spending

Big turnout for MWC's inaugural candidate education forum

Sunday Morning Rollers sweep CSA bowling tourney

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Today's Labor History

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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work (Special guest John Sayles!): Thu, February 6, 1pm - 2pm
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This week's guest: John Sayles (director of the classic labor film "Matewan"), who will be DC Saturday discussing his new book Yellow Earth. photo: Sayles at the 2017 DC LaborFest; photo by Bruce Guthrie

Report questions MD hospitals' community health spending
Maryland's hospitals receive millions of dollars in tax breaks every year. They're supposed to spend that money on programs that make our communities healthier. But a new white paper questions whether that's really happening. The paper, authored by the Maryland/DC Division of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East found that Maryland hospitals' spending reports "lack accountability and transparency" while "Many hospitals also lack meaningful public engagement in identifying community health needs." The report argues that accountability and community engagement are important because "For neighborhoods struggling with crumbling schools, substandard housing, poor air quality, and a lack of natural open spaces, hospital community benefits spending offers the opportunity for investments in initiatives that will improve community health." [link removed] Click here to download the white paper.

Big turnout for MWC's inaugural candidate education forum
More than thirty candidates for the DC Council attended the DC Labor Council's inaugural candidate education forum on Monday night at the AFL-CIO headquarters. The two-hour event covered many of the top-priority issues for labor in healthcare, education, transportation, and hospitality. Metro Council affiliate leaders spoke in detail about workers rights, affordable housing, the proposed new hospital in Ward 8, protecting the right to collective bargaining, transit operator assaults, railway safety and protecting public education in the District, among many other topics. The forum was the first time the Council has sought to educate the candidates seeking office on the DC Council before beginning the endorsement interviews, and many of the candidates expressed appreciation for the opportunity to learn more about labor's concerns. "The objective was to make sure that those running for office know what issues are important to the labor movement," explained Council Political Director David Stephen. "We hope and expect that as they move forward in seeking endorsement of the Council and our affiliates that they will be able to address how they, as lawmakers, would work to empower a stronger labor movement that will lift working people in every ward." Nearly every candidate seeking a council seat from wards 2,4,7 and 8, as well as an at-large seat, were in attendance on Tuesday, including both challengers and incumbents. The DC COPE committee plans to begin candidate interviews in early March.
- photo by Chris Garlock

Sunday Morning Rollers sweep CSA bowling tourney
The Sunday Morning Rollers dominated the 2020 CSA Bowling for Gold tournament, sweeping both the team and individual categories. Retired police officer Eric Wesby won an Honorable Mention for bowling a 300 perfect game and IBEW Local 1900's Aaron Tyler won the 50/50 raffle.
Click here for team photos from both the [link removed] morning and [link removed] ahttps://www.facebook.com/dclabor/photos/?tab=album&album_id=3080156688662751 fternoon sessions.
Team winners:
First Place: "Sunday Morning Rollers 1" (photo) with a team score of 3250; bowlers David Brooks, Ron Collins, Darnell Douglass, Stephen Fletcher & James Taylor won $150 each.
Second Place: "Sunday Morning Rollers 3" with a team score of 3224; Brian Howze, Anthony Jefferis, Traci Morris, Michael Strickland & Washington Wilkerson, Jr. won $100 each.
Third Place: "Sunday Morning Rollers 6" with a team score of 3103; bowlers Reggie Chandler, Ron Nowlin, Derek Payne, Clarence Rucker & Eric Wesby won $75 each.
Individual winners:
First Place: Derek Payne, score 707 "Sunday Morning Rollers 6" ($150)
Second Place: Michael Strickland, 706; "Sunday Morning Rollers 3" ($100)
Third Place: David Brooks, 700; "Sunday Morning Rollers 1" ($75)
"Thanks to everyone for participating," said CSA Executive Director Sonté DuCote, "and mark your calendar now for next year's tourney: Sunday, January 31, 2021!"
photo by Chris Garlock

Today's Labor Quote: Bill Clinton

"Family and medical leave is a matter of pure common sense and a matter of common decency. It will provide Americans what they need most: peace of mind. Never again will parents have to fear losing their jobs because of their families."
Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act on this date in 1993.

Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act on this date in 1993.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Sisters, rebels and social justice in the Jim Crow South
On today's show, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall discusses her new book, Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of the South in an excerpt from the Working History podcast.
Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Iris Rivera's historic refusal to serve coffee, Jessica Pauszek reads poetry by a striking British miner's wife and Tom Zaniello remembers Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.
Last week's show: [link removed] Voices from the Lansing Auto Town Gallery

February 5

The movie Modern Times premieres. The tale of the tramp (Charlie Chaplin) and his paramour (Paulette Goddard) mixed slapstick comedy and social satire, as the couple struggled to overcome the difficulties of the machine age, including, unemployment and nerve-wracking factory work, and get along in modern times - 1937 Check out the famous factory scene in the video below.

In what turns out to be a bad business decision, Circuit City fires 3,900 experienced sales people because they're making too much in commissions. Sales plummet. Six years later it declares bankruptcy. Duh. - 2003

February 6

It took 1,231 firefighters 30 hours to put down The Great Baltimore Fire, which started on this day and destroyed 1,500 buildings over an area of some 140 acres - 1904

Philadelphia shirtwaist makers vote to accept arbitration offer and end walkout as Triangle Shirtwaist strike winds down. One year later 146 workers, mostly young girls aged 13 to 23, were to die in a devastating fire at the New York City sweatshop - 1910

Seattle General Strike begins. The city was run by a General Strike Committee for six days as tens of thousands of union members stopped work in support of 32,000 striking longshoremen - 1919

- David Prosten

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