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CPC Center staff union recognized

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Center (CPC Center) voluntarily recognized its staff union, CPC Center Union on Monday. CPC Center employees are unionized with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU). “We are so excited to officially have our union recognized today!” said the representatives of the CPC Center Union. “We look forward to working with management to negotiate our first contract that will uphold our commitment to justice and workers’ rights.” Liz Watson, Executive Director of the CPC Center, said that “We are thrilled to voluntarily recognize the CPC Center Union's bargaining unit today. Unions are essential to workplace justice and to our democracy. We look forward to working together with the CPC Center Union to bargain toward a first contract.” Read more

Today's Labor Quote: Richard Trumka

"There's no evil that's inflicted more pain and more suffering than racism - and it's something that we in the Labor Movement have a special responsibility to challenge. It's our special responsibility because we know, better than anyone else, how racism is used to divide working people. We've seen how companies set worker against worker - how they throw whites a few extra crumbs off the table - and how it's black and Latino workers who get the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs. But we've seen something else too. We've seen that when we cross that color line and stand together no one can keep us down."

Richard Trumka was elected president of the AFL-CIO at the federation’s convention in Pittsburgh on this date in 2009.

Today's Labor History

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Labor Day: no picnic in a pandemic
Peter Rachleff on the history and significance of Labor Day on the Union Yes Iowa podcast; anthropologist Paul Shackel remembers the 1897 Lattimer Massacre; from the Library of Congress’s brand-new America Works podcast, Greg Vaught, the singing gold mine worker from Elko, Nevada.
Plus, Pete Seeger remembers textile mill striker Ella Mae Wiggins, and on Labor History in 2: The Making of a National Treasure.
Last week’s show: We Do The Work; Working History.

400 Chinese, Portuguese and local field hands, along with 125 Paiute Indians, struck the Pleasanton Hop Company in one of the largest and earliest, though unsuccessful, interracial strikes in California agriculture. - 1893

More than 43,000 oil workers strike in 20 states, part of the post-war strike wave - 1945

A player lockout by the National Hockey League begins, leading to cancellation of what would have been the league’s 88th season. The lockout, over owner demands that salaries be capped, lasted 310 days - 2004

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee wins a signed contract with the Mount Olive Pickle Co. and growers, ending a five-year boycott. The agreement marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers - 2004

- David Prosten

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