LABOR CALENDAR
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 25, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Hosts: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; call in at 202-588-0893
Guests: Erin Hatton, Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment; Sonte DuCote, Community Services Agency Executive Director
All of Us: Out + Essential Town Hall: Thu, June 25, 4pm – 5pm
Via Zoom; RSVP here
Returning To Work (WAMU panel discussion): Thu, June 25, 5pm – 6pm
Online: RSVP here
Ally Schweitzer hosts Deborah Berkowitz, Worker Safety and Health program director at the National Employment Law Project, Dyana Forester, president of the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO and political and community affairs director for UFCW Local 400 and Daniel Katz, senior staff attorney at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Defunding the Police: What Does This Mean? Thu, June 25, 5pm – 7pm
Via Zoom; Join UFCW Local 1994 President Gino Renne and a panel of experts.
RSVP to Shalonda Colbert [email protected].
DC Excluded Workers Rally: Mon, June 29, 9:30am – 10:30am
Freedom Plaza, Washington, DC
DC Labor Town Hall with Robert White
Mon, June 29, 3pm – 4pm
Zoom; register here
photo: 32BJ SEIU members demonstrated yesterday at the U.S. Capitol; their employer -- Eulen -- is forcing workers to reapply for their old jobs at DCA. photo courtesy 32BJ SEIU Twitter feed.
Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Solidarity helps feed area union families
“I was stressed and depressed because I was running out of money,” says Shirley Tavara, a UNITE HERE Local 23 member laid off because of the pandemic. “It took time for my unemployment to kick in,” she told Union City. “The food cards helped me buy milk, bread, and other groceries I needed in the moment.” With many area workers facing economic disaster, the Metro Washington Council’s Community Services Agency has been able to help put food on their tables thanks to contributions to CSA’s Emergency Assistance Fund from local unions, allies, the Greater Washington Community Foundation and the National Capital Area United Way. Locals donating included SEIU Local 722, IBEW Local 1900 and the AFT Staff Union; to find out how you and/or your local can help, email [email protected]
photo: Shirley Tavara and her family
Today's Labor Quote: A. Philip Randolph
“Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.”
On this day in 1941, at Randolph’s urging, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order barring discrimination in defense industries.
photo by Seymour Kattelson, courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: SCOTUS bans LGBTQ workplace discrimination; Queer history of the UAW.
Last week’s show: Painters join Black Lives Matter protests; the history of black police in America; Race and Rebellion.
Fair Labor Standards Act passes Congress, banning child labor and setting the 40-hour work week - 1938
Congress passes the Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act over Pres. Franklin Roosevelt’s veto. It allows the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by strikes that would interfere with war production. It was hurriedly created after the third coal strike in seven weeks - 1943
21 workers are killed when a fireworks factory near Hallett, Okla. explodes - 1985
Decatur, Ill. police pepper-gas workers at A.E. Staley plant gate one year into the company's two and one-half year lockout of Paperworkers Local 7837 - 1994
- David Prosten
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