"Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide”: Tue, September 29, 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University

Airport Union Caucus: Tue, September 29, 2pm – 3pm [note new date]
Meeting for unions representing airport and airline workers

Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, September 29, 5pm – 7pm
Special Guest - County Chair Phyllis Randall

Virtual Phone Bank for Abigail Spanberger: Tue, September 29, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (NC): Tue, September 29, 6pm – 9pm

FILM: QUEEN SUGAR: Tue, September 29, 7pm – 9pm (will be done before debate!)

Virtual Phone Bank and Best Practices training session: Wed, September 30, 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Register here

Metro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: America’s Work Force; RadioLabour; Heartland Labor Forum; Union City Radio; Labor Lines; The Break Time Breakdown: AFM Local 4 president Len DiCosimo on the political divides in America today; unionbusting at nonprofits; “A perfect illustration of why public services should not be entrusted to for-profit companies like Transdev”; Stephen Lerner on Bargaining for the Common Good; first-year apprentice Kasey Mathias shares her experiences.

UFCW locals demand hazard pay negotiations at Giant
The good news: Giant last week announced a one-time “appreciation” bonus for grocery workers. The bad news:
Giant has refused to even open negotiations over hazard pay with its worker’s union. Meanwhile, Stop & Shop, which is owned by the same parent company, has not only agreed to open negotiations on a hazard pay deal, the company and the union just agreed to provide retroactive premium pay to all store associates. UFCW Local 400 President Mark Federici, together with President Jason Chorpenning of UFCW Local 27 in Baltimore, sent a letter to Giant president Ira Kress to “express our complete disgust” with Giant’s refusal to negotiate. Read more here.

Union Voice/Readers Write: Missing Resisterhood

"I was not able to see the Resisterhood film (last week's DC LaborFest screening) but would very much like to," writes UC reader Julie Barnet. "Is there a way I could watch it?"

Absolutely; click here.

Today's Labor Quote: Margaret Poydock

“The pandemic has merely provided the administration another opportunity to continue its attacks on workers’ rights.”

Margaret Poydock is a policy associate at the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of their report “50 reasons the Trump administration is bad for workers.”

Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: “Despotism on Demand”
Sociologist Alex Wood on the history of the relationship between bosses and workers and how that’s playing out in the age of COVID-19. On Labor History in 2: The Wreck of The Old ‘97.
Last week’s show: Escape on the Pearl; Black Labor Week

A report by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the average weekly take home pay of a factory worker with three dependents is now $94.87 - 1962

- David Prosten

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