TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
NoVA Labor Arts Caucus: Wed, July 8, 3pm – 4pm
Meeting for unions representing broadcast and performing arts.
Contact [email protected] to join.
All of Us: Young, Woke, & Ready: Wed, July 8, 6pm – 7pm
Facebook livestream
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, July 8, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Special guest Chris Lewis will discuss his new racial justice initiative Just NoVA.
Contact [email protected] for the Zoom link.
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, July 9, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Hosts: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893
This week: Local labor news updates plus an original radio serial -- "The Mystery of the Missing Worker" -- from the San Francisco Mime Troupe!
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Thu, July 9, 2pm – 3pm
Online; The Washington Teachers’ Union hosts a Virtual Town Hall
Arlington Dems. Labor Caucus: Thu, July 9, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Meeting for Arlington unions, labor activists and allies to discuss strategies to support workers during the pandemic, including workplace safety, rent cancellation, racial justice, and union organizing.
Scholars Strategy Network staff unionizes
The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union continued its string of organizing successes last week with the announcement that the staff of Scholars Strategy Network had joined the union. “We believe that unionizing creates a platform for all staff to participate in ways that build on our strengths and address our weaknesses,” said the SSN union in a statement. “We believe a union will allow staff to use our combined years of experience organizing scholars to build a more effective, democratic organization.” Workers have asked management to voluntarily recognize the union and begin negotiating a contract.
Volunteers needed for Baltimore Food and Safeway Gift Card distribution day
With 98% of the Baltimore hospitality, events, visitor and convention business shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of workers have been out of work for months, with no end in sight. This Friday, July 10, UNITE HERE Local 7 is holding a large Food and Safeway Gift Card distribution day for Baltimore hospitality workers and their families. Local 7 needs volunteers on both Thursday and Friday to assemble food baskets and help run a well-organized event; click here to sign up. Mask wearing, social distancing and cleaning protocols will be strictly followed. “This relief to workers is made possible by a generous grant from the Mamie and Jerome Todd Foundation,” says Local 7 president Roxie Herbekian.
Online SF LaborFest highlights
The DC LaborFest’s online film series is off this week, but you can check out the San Francisco LaborFest online. Celebrating its 27th year, the San Francisco LaborFest runs throughout the month of July. This week’s online events include a session on the “History of Labor Parties in the U.S. and Prospects Today" on Wednesday. Then on Thursday, "Labor & The Murals" will explore the controversy over artistic expression swirling around the 1936 George Washington murals by Victor Arnautoff at the San Francisco high school named after Washington. On Friday, there’s a screening of the film “Gone Postal,” which investigates the dark corners of the U.S. Postal Service as brave employees stand up to injustice on the job and fight to save “the People’s Post Office.” Complete details here.
Today’s Labor Quote: William "Big Bill" Haywood
“We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in possession of economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution without regard to capitalist masters.”
From the address by the American radical labor leader to delegates at the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, which concluded on this date in 1905 in Chicago.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: 2020 Great Labor Arts Exchange contest winners!. Plus, Joe Glazer’s Solidarity Forever from the Songs of Work and Freedom album, and the Meany Archives gang brings us the July 4th, 1964 issue of the AFL CIO news, which featured the signing of the Civil Rights Act and Ben and Allen tie that into the ongoing protests for social justice.
Last week’s show: Why America’s most radical union shut down ports on Juneteenth.
First anthracite coal strike in U.S. - 1842
Labor organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor (photo) born on Staten Island, NY. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions that author Upton Sinclair had revealed in "The Jungle" - 1862
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. fires all employees who had been working an eight hour day, then joins with other owners to form the "Ten-Hour League Society" for the purpose of uniting all mechanics "willing to work at the old rates, neither unjust to the laborers nor ruinous to the capital and enterprise of the city and state." The effort failed - 1867
- David Prosten
Communications
Social Media Specialist, CNA/NNU (California Nurses Association (CNA) / National Nurses United (NNU) AFL-CIO) (Posted: 7/1/2020)
Communications Specialist, CNA/NNU (California Nurses Association (CNA) / National Nurses United (NNU) AFL-CIO) (Posted: 7/1/2020)
Communications Director, Good Jobs First (Posted: 6/23/2020) District of Columbia
Director of Strategic Communications, UFR (United for Respect) (Posted: 6/26/2020)
Finance
Accountant & Administrative Assistant, IUOE Local 99 (6/29); email [email protected]
Accountant, IUOE NTF (International Union of Operating Engineers National Training Fund) (Posted: 6/24/2020)
Misc
Deputy Director – Organization & Field Services Department, AFT (American Federation of Teachers) (Posted: 7/2/2020)
National Representative I-IV – Organization & Field Services Department, AFT AFT (American Federation of Teachers) (Posted: 7/1/2020)
National Coordinator – Mid-Atlantic States, CKPU (Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions) (Posted: 6/22/2020)
Human Resources Director, LCV (League of Conservation Voters) (Posted: 6/16/2020)
Associate Director of State Affiliate Relationships – Office of the Executive Director, NEA (National Education Association) (Posted: 2/13/2020)
Union Staff, NNU (National Nurses United) (Posted: 7/1/2020)
Deputy Regional Program Director – Asia, Solidarity Center (Posted: 6/11/2020)
Interns
Fall Domestic Intern, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR); Send the following, in a single PDF file, to apply[at]cepr.net with the subject line “Fall 2020 Domestic Intern”: 1. a cover letter; 2. a résumé, and; 3. a response to the following writing prompt (400 to 600 words): “The CARES Act provided supplemental unemployment insurance benefits of $600 a week to all workers who qualify for benefits. These benefits expire at the end of July. Should this supplement be extended, why or why not?”
Organizing
UniServ Manager of Organizing and Bargaining, VEA (Virginia Education Association) (Posted: 6/23/2020)
Political
Legislative Advocate, (National Nurses United) (Posted: 7/1/2020)
Research
Research Analyst, Good Jobs First (Posted: 6/15/2020)
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