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Unemployment Compensation in DC (Part 2): Pandemic Unemployment Assistance: Thu, June 11, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Kroger workers to stage car caravan protests today demanding “Hero Pay”
Today at 4p, Kroger workers in Virginia and West Virginia are staging car caravan protests in eight cities to demand the company extend “hero pay” until the pandemic is over. After receiving praise in the media for providing $2/hour “hero pay” to workers on the frontlines of the pandemic, Kroger quietly canceled the program last month and replaced it with a one-time bonus. Last month, the UFCW estimated that more than 65 grocery workers have died as a result of the pandemic, and at least 9,810 have been infected or exposed to the deadly virus, noting that “Those numbers are likely much higher now.” Nearly 10,000 have already signed Local 400’s petition urging Giant and Safeway to extend hazard pay.

Union Voice/Readers Write: Reuther correx
"Walter Reuther died in 1970, not 1971 (6/8 Labor History)," writes Jack Clark. "And I am fairly certain he died in May, not June. The nationwide student strike had just started."
Right on both counts; apologies for the errors!

Today's Labor Quote: OPEIU Local 2

“People are not just workers, and unions are not confined to making change in the workplace. This battle will not be won this week or this year. It will take the conscious involvement of all of us to ensure that our nation treats all people equally.”

In its “Statement on the Murder of George Floyd and Racism in America”; art by Nikkolas Smith

Today's Labor History

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Labor supports DC Black Lives Matter protests; “Debs In Canton” preview; Revisiting The Battle of Homestead; Voices of exiled Iranian workers.
Last week’s show: Minneapolis general strike; “Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property”

Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah – 1869

U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union. It favors industrial organization and independent labor party politics - 1898

A federal bankruptcy judge frees United Airlines from responsibility for pensions covering 120,000 employees - 2005

- David Prosten

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