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State workers rate MD DOL pandemic response "poor"
Sean Santmyire, an AFSCME Council 3 union member and job specialist for the Maryland Department of Labor, said Tuesday that the agency's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been "poor." "Shortage of equipment, training and staffing has placed our membership in dangerous positions," he said. For months, AFSCME Council 3 has been pushing for protections for its members -- from unrestrained access to personal protective equipment to adequate staffing at agencies straining from the burden of COVID-19. "To this day, unfortunately, there are departments and institutions that have still not addressed many of the basics that need to happen in order for the state to successfully move forward and take on the pandemic to ensure safety in the workplace and for the employees," AFSCME Council 3 President Patrick Moran said.
- Excerpted from [link removed] Maryland Matters; photo: AFSCME Council 3 workers drove in a caravan recently in an appeal to the Board of Public Works for safer workplaces during the pandemic. report/photo by Hannah Gaskill

Union Voice/Readers Write: "Debs in Canton" radio play today
"Can you send me the details on the Debs radio play? ("Debs In Canton" Today's Labor History)" asks Stephen Frum.
Debs In Canton airs online at the [link removed] Eighth Annual Hear Now Festival, this Friday, June 12 at 12:00 noon and again on Sunday, June 14 at 11:30pm.

Today's Labor Quote: Major League Baseball Players Association

"In this time of unprecedented suffering at home and abroad, Players want nothing more than to get back to work and provide baseball fans with the game we all love. But we cannot do this alone. Important work remains to be done in order to safely resume the season. We stand ready to complete that work and look forward to getting back on the field."

In a [link removed] statement last week rejecting the league's demand for additional concessions. The graphic below was posted on the MLBPA's [link removed] Twitter feed.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] 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: [link removed] Minneapolis general strike; "Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property"

June 12
Fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen employed in meatpacking plants walk off their jobs; demands include equalization of wages and conditions throughout U.S. plants - 1904

260 die in Butte mine disaster; 14,000 strike against unsafe conditions - 1917

The U.S. Supreme Court invalidates two sections of a Florida law: one required state licensing of paid union business agents, the other required registration with the state of all unions and their officers - 1945

Major League Baseball strike begins, forces cancellation of 713 games. Most observers blamed team owners for the strike: they were trying to recover from a court decision favoring the players on free agency - 1981

June 13
Congress creates a Bureau of Labor, under the Interior Dept. It later became independent as a Dept. of Labor without executive status in the Dept. of Commerce and Labor; in 1913 it became the Dept. of Labor we know today - 1884

American Railway Union, headed by Eugene V. Debs, founded - 1893

Tony Mazzocchi (photo) born in Brooklyn, N.Y. An activist and officer in the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union, he was a mentor to Karen Silkwood, a founder of the Labor Party, a prime mover behind the 1970 passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and co-founder of the annual DC Labor FimFest - 1926

June 14
The first commercial computer, UNIVAC I, is installed at the U.S. Census Bureau - 1951

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