LABOR CALENDAR

Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

Caravan for Respect at GMU: Thu, June 11, 11:00am – 12:30pm
University Mall, 10653 Braddock Rd, Fairfax, VA 22032

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 11, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online

Unemployment Compensation in DC (Part 2): Pandemic Unemployment Assistance: Thu, June 11, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Zoom; Register here

Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, June 11, 6pm – 7pm
Zoom

DCNA Stands with Black Lives Matter: Thu, June 11, 6pm – 7pm
16th and L Streets, NW and head to LaFayette Park.

NoVA Labor Union Women Happy Hour: Fri, June 12, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Zoom

Coalition to Repeal Right to Work: Fri, June 12, 7pm – 8pm
Zoom

Metro Washington Council Delegate Meeting & Election: Mon, June 15, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
Must be a delegate; register here. photo: new MWC delegates getting sworn in yesterday.

Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.

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CSA helps keep roof over family’s heads
Before the pandemic struck, Isabel Maza cleaned offices for Nationwide Janitorial Services. The mother of three has been out of work because of the crisis, ineligible for unemployment and unable to pay her rent. "You can imagine the stress she was experiencing,” said Francisco Romero, a field representative for Maza’s union, 32BJ SEIU. Fortunately, thanks to help from her union and from the Metro Washington Council’s Community Services Agency, Maza was able to pay her rent and keep a roof over her family’s heads. CSA “helped me in a moment of need (ayudo en un momento de nececidad)," Maza said. "CSA is grateful to the Metro Washington Council’s local unions, the Baltimore DC Building Trades Council, the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, Ullico and the many individual donors who helped provide the funds to help workers like Ms. Maza,” said CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. "This support is so crucial for keeping workers and their families whole at a time when they are terribly vulnerable," she added.

Voices of essential workers; Teamster bus driver
“We're coming to work every day to keep the system moving, keep WMATA moving,” says Lanelle Price, a 25-year bus operator for WMATA and a member of Teamsters local 922. “We're wearing our masks, taking precautions, keeping our hands sanitized. We have chains on the bus that divide us from the public, and the public is wearing masks as well so that's a very good step, and I hope it keeps going until this is over with. Having Teamsters to back us up to make sure that we still have our jobs is a wonderful thing. Everyone needs a union, so fight for whatever situation you need to go through. I appreciate each and every one of you and just stay safe. That's all we can do at this point.” Price is on the latest Teamster Nation podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts on the Labor Radio/Podcast Network.

Today's Labor Quote: James P. Hoffa & Marcus King

“This is not a time when we sit in judgment and ridicule of each other, but when we unite in a show of solidarity and compassion to ensure that all people are treated fairly with dignity and respect.”

James P. Hoffa is president of the Teamsters; Marcus King is Director of the Teamsters Human Rights and Diversity Commission. From their Statement on Murder of George Floyd.

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”

Representatives from the AFL, Knights of Labor, populists, railroad brotherhoods and other trade unions hold a unity conference in St. Louis but fail to overcome their differences - 1894

Police shoot at maritime workers striking United Fruit Co. in New Orleans; 1 killed, 2 wounded – 1913

John L. Lewis (photo) dies. A legendary figure, he was president of the United Mine Workers from 1920 to 1960 and a driving force behind the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations - 1969

- David Prosten

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