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Feminist Majority Foundation employees organize

AFL-CIO's "Am I Safe at Work" webinar today

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, September 10, 1pm - 2pm
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Today's topics: AFGE's Black Labor Week; Union Veteran's Council on Trump and vets & UVC's 2020 political strategy

"Am I Safe @ Work" Webinar: Working People Winning in a Pandemic! Thu, September 10, 2pm - 3pm
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[link removed] Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, September 10, 6pm - 8pm

Film: Waging Change: Thu, September 10, 7pm - 9pm
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"What Would a Good Guestworker Program Look Like?: Signal International and the Long Fight for Foreign Workers' Rights": Fri, September 11, 12:15pm - 1:30pm
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This #LaborDay week, we're shining a light on the mvmt to end the tipped subminimum wage of $2.13 per hr & bring justice for restaurant workers! Join us for @WagingChange screening + panel w/ @SaruJayaraman & @NikkiMGCole Sept 10 at 7pm ET. tinyurl.com/WagingChange #OneFairWage

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UNION CITY returns to our weekday daily schedule this week; send us your local labor news at mailto:[email protected] [email protected].
Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses [link removed] here.

Labor Day with Labor & solidarity with Black Lives Matter: [link removed] Union City Radio pod extra here. National and local labor leaders involved with the BLM movement discuss solidarity efforts and next steps. Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM on Labor Day 2020.

Feminist Majority Foundation employees organize
The staff at Feminist Majority Foundation ([link removed] FMF) has formed a union with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union ([link removed] NPEU) and asked management for voluntary recognition. "Collective bargaining has always been a guiding principle of FMF's work," said the [link removed] Feminist Majority Union. "Unions are feminist, and feminism needs unions." With a supermajority of union-eligible staff from FMF and its programs and projects, "we've organized to practice our values and ensure the ideals we uphold in our movement and the dreams we hold for the future of our world are paramount in our own workplace."

AFL-CIO's "Am I Safe at Work" webinar today
As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the country, working people are looking for ways to join together to form a union in their workplaces and negotiate for strong health and safety protections. The AFL-CIO has launched a new [link removed] Am I Safe at Work? web tool to raise awareness of what a safe workplace should be and how a union can help achieve those goals. You can find talking points, social media posts, and social graphics [link removed] here, and the Organizing Institute is hosting a [link removed] free webinar this afternoon (see Calendar): "Am I Safe @ Work Webinar: Working People Winning in a Pandemic!"

Today's Labor Quote: Saru Jayaraman

"The idea that tips can count against wages is a direct legacy of slavery."

Saru Jayaraman, who will be part of the post-film discussion at tonight's free online screening of Waging Change (see Calendar), is president of One Fair Wage, co-founder of [link removed] Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) United, and the director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] We Do The Work; Working History
"Learn Yourself" is part of "We Do The Work," airing weekly on Skagit Valley Community Radio KSVR.
Today we hear about LELO, formerly known as the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office, and founded in Seattle, Washington in 1972 when Black, Asian and Latino workers came together to work for racial and economic justice.
Ismael García Colón discusses his new book, "Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire," about Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers, and their labor experiences in the post-World War II United States, on the Working History podcast.
Plus we preview the re-broadcast of the IAM's 1950 "Boomer Jones" radio show and on this week's Labor History in 2: Jane Addams is born.
Last week's show: [link removed] Cutting along the Color Line

Polish, Lithuanian and Slovak miners are gunned down--19 dead, more than 50 wounded--by the Lattimer Mine's sheriff deputies in Hazelton, Pa. Most were shot in the back. The miners were marching peacefully and without weapons for collective bargaining and civil liberty - 1897

- David Prosten

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