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AFSCME Council 67 helps in "tough times"

Voters OK pro-worker ballot measures

Union Voice/Readers Write: 1199 redux

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Today's Labor History

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Grande Finale of the Journey: Vehicle Caravan: Fri, November 13, 10am - 12pm
IKEA parking lot, 10000 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20010

Grande Finale of the Journey: Press conference/music: Fri, November 13, 1pm - 3pm
AFL-CIO, 815 Black Lives Matter Plz NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx

[link removed] Coalition to Repeal Right to Work: Fri, November 13, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Special Guest Delegate Lee Carter

DC Nurses Rally for Safe School Re-Opening: Sat, November 14, 9:30am - 11:00am
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DC Jobs with Justice's I'll Be There Awards 2020: Wed, November 18, 6pm - 8pm
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If you missed yesterday's Your Rights At Work radio show, catch the podcast here: [link removed] Everything you need to know about DC unemployment insurance. DC City Councilmember Elissa Silverman discusses extended UI benefits, troubleshooting the latest issues, and the upcoming oversight hearing on outstanding Department of Employment Services issues.

AFSCME Council 67 helps in "tough times"
AFSCME Maryland Council 67 stepped up to help local needy families during the holidays by contributing $250 to the Community Services Agency's Holiday Basket Program. "This is a unique and tough time for all of us," said Council 67 Executive Director Glen Middleton. "Which is why Council 67 president Dale Chase and our Executive Board feel we must all pull together to help workers who are less fortunate. "Council 67's contribution will help CSA provide five families with food assistance for Thanksgiving said CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. "Workers laid off due to COVID-19 are having to choose between feeding their families and paying their rent, which is why CSA's Holiday Basket program is so important," she added. Financial contributions and gift cards for the Holiday Basket program may be made payable to CSA and mailed to 815 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Or [link removed] click here to make a secure online contribution. The deadline to contribute is Friday, December 11.

Voters OK pro-worker ballot measures
While the focus on last week's election results has been on the vote for president of the United States, voters passed a host of worker-friendly ballot measures in states and localities:

* In San Francisco voters approved a ballot measure to raise the business tax on corporations that pay their CEOs more than 100 times what they pay their average employee.

* Earlier this week, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously enacted an ordinance giving workers the power to monitor their workplaces' health and safety conditions.

* Florida voters passed Amendment 2, which will raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour, as did Portland, Maine, which will also require time-and-a-half pay during emergencies.

* And in Colorado, voters approved Proposition 118, providing workers in the state 12 weeks of paid family leave and 16 weeks for the birth of a child.

Union Voice/Readers Write: 1199 redux
"That's Henry Nicholas," writes Jim Schmitz, correctly identifying the other person in yesterday's photo of Hospital Workers Local 1199 president Leon Davis. Nicholas (at left) was the longtime president of 1199c in Philadelphia and former president of 1199 AFSCME NUHHCE.

Today's Labor Quote: Michael Meadows

"Mom wasn't an activist of any kind. I believe she did what she did not because she was anti-nuclear energy, but because she knew the way things were being handled and the danger her coworkers were being exposed to, among other things, was wrong. Plain and simple."

Meadows is the son of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union activist Karen Silkwood, who, on this date in 1974, was killed in a suspicious car crash on her way to deliver documents to a newspaper reporter during a safety investigation of her Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma. photo: Silkwood with (l-r) children Kristi, Dawn and Michael.

Today's Labor History
This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Blue Wave? Labor and the Democratic coalition in the Southwest
Plus: Dorothy Day is born. Last week's show: [link removed] Organizing through the Divide

November 13
259 miners died in the underground Cherry Mine fire. As a result of the disaster, Illinois established stricter safety regulations and in 1911, the basis for the state's Workers Compensation Act was passed - 1909

A Western Federation of Miners strike is crushed by the militia in Butte, Mont. - 1914

GM workers' post-war strike for higher wages closes 96 plants - 1945

November 14
Women's Trade Union League founded, Boston - 1903

The National Federation of Telephone Workers - later to become the Communications Workers of America - is founded in New Orleans - 1938

To "organize workers into a powerful industrial union," United Mine Workers of America President, John L. Lewis called a meeting in Pittsburgh's Islam Grotto, founding the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) - 1938

November 15
Founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions is held in Pittsburgh. It urges enactment of employer liability, compulsory education, uniform apprenticeship and child and convict labor laws. Five years later it changes its name to the American Federation of Labor - 1881

- David Prosten

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