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Hotel workers' union shows solidarity

COVID-19: How're you doing?

UFCW 400 Press Clips: Grocery Workers on the Frontlines of Pandemic

Union printer keeps presses rolling

AFL-CIO Press Clips

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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Hotel workers' union shows solidarity
Even as 90% of their own members have been laid off or furloughed, UNITE HERE Local 25 - which represents hospitality workers throughout the metro area -- has contributed $5,000 to the Metro Washington Council's Community Services Agency's (CSA) Emergency Assistance Fund to help fellow metro-area union members. "We are all in this together," said Local 25 President Linda Martin, "and this is one way of showing solidarity even as we practice social distancing." [link removed] Read more here.
photo: UNITE HERE 25 members show solidarity with area supermarket workers -- members of UFCW 400 -- earlier this month during their contract struggle.

COVID-19: How're you doing?
Cabin fever setting in? Struggling with that Zoom learning curve? Wondering why there's always one person on a conference call who doesn't mute their phone? Union City wants to hear how the local labor movement is handling the COVID-19 crisis. We'd especially like to hear stories about how locals are helping their members, and how members are helping out in the community. Email us at mailto:[email protected] [email protected] and we'll share the best stories! And send along photos if you've got them.

[link removed] UFCW 400 Press Clips
Grocery Workers on the Frontlines of Pandemic
News4's Derrick Ward speaks to employees and customers at Giant Grocery Store in Aspen Hill, Maryland.
A Cashier Reports From The Grocery Front Lines
People are rushing to stores to stock up. Michelle Lee, a cashier at Safeway in Alexandria, Va., describes her job during the pandemic.
As Other Businesses Close, Union Grocery Stores are Hiring
The Coronavirus pandemic is not only an unprecedented public health threat -- it is having a devastating impact on many people's jobs, especially in the retail, travel and restaurant industries.

Union printer keeps presses rolling
Local union printer [link removed] Doyle Printing says they're still open and available to serve the labor community's printing needs. "We've been around since 1926 and made it through very tough times before," says owner Tom Doyle. Doyle produces large and small volumes of printed material such as stationary products, booklets and brochures, as well as mailings, banners, and more. Reach Tom at mailto:[email protected] [email protected] or call 301-322-4800.

[link removed] AFL-CIO Press Clips
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka talks about the coronavirus's impact on American workers
Unions Mobilize to Press for Worker Focus in Virus-Relief Bill
As economic tsunami grows, Senate coronavirus plan comes under fire from all sides
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Today's Labor Quote: Richard Trumka

Reacting to Senate Republicans' $1.3 trillion dollar stimulus package to aid businesses reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, who said the proposal would face heavy opposition from unions because there's no guarantee money would flow to workers, called it "an utter disgrace."

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] COVID-19: An injury to one is the concern of all
Al Neal's "Silent streets: Life halts, but not for all workers," and Joe McCartin on "Class and the Challenge of COVID-19." Plus Saul Schniderman and John O'Connor remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
Last week's show: [link removed] The Great Postal Strike, Watergate and "Casey Jones, the Union Scab"

Toronto printers strike for the 9-hour day in what is believed to be Canada's first major strike - 1872

First "Poor People's March" on Washington, in which jobless workers demanded creation of a public works program. Led by populist Jacob Coxey, the 500 to 1,000 unemployed protesters became known as "Coxey's Army" - 1894

146 workers are killed in a fire at New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a disaster that would launch a national movement for safer working conditions - 1911

An explosion at a coal mine in Centralia, Ill. kills 111 miners. Mineworkers President John L. Lewis calls a six day work stoppage by the nation's 400,000 soft coal miners to demand safer working conditions - 1947

- David Prosten

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