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DC City Council urged to help workers with Right to Return to Work
DC workers will be watching closely tomorrow as the DC City Council marks up legislation giving workers in the hardest hit industries a right to return to work post-COVID. “Hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues got $100 million from the DC government,” said UNITE HERE Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Boardman. “The Council must act to protect workers by passing the Right to Return to Work.” Added Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester, “We can’t have a just recovery if DC leaves workers behind. The DC City Council must pass a Right to Return to Work for workers in the hardest hit industries.”
Tri-County COPE meeting tomorrow
The Metro Washington Council’s Tri-County COPE will meet on Tuesday, December 1 at 7:00 pm via Zoom – click here to pre-register -- to discuss legislative priorities for 2021. They’ll be joined by representatives from Charles County Commission President Reuben Collins and Commissioner BJ Bowling for a 20-minute Q&A. Guests will brief the committee on their legislative agenda in the new year and hear from members on our work in the county to foster a stronger relationship moving forward.
Solidarity Center Report: New Video to End Gender-Based Violence at Work
As the global labor community mobilizes during 16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence (Nov. 25-Dec 10), the Solidarity Center released a new tool for the campaign to end gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) at work. The educational video (below) explains GBVH at work, describes how the new International Labor Organization Convention 190 can address it and how union activists can take the next steps to ensure it is ratified by countries around the world. It highlights how C190 is effective only if governments formally endorse it and pass laws implementing it. Find out more at the Solidarity Center.
Today's Labor Quote:Tom Donahue
“The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.”
Donahue served as secretary-treasurer of the national AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995 and president in 1995.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Monopoly and Class Struggle: The games we play
Last week’s show: Uprising of the 20,000
“Fighting Mary” Eliza McDowell, also known as the “Angel of the Stockyards,” born in Chicago. As a social worker she helped organize the first women’s local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1902 – 1854
Mother Jones died at the Burgess Farm in Adelphi, Md. - 1930
More than 12,000 members of the Insurance Agents Union strike in 35 states and Washington D.C. against the Prudential Insurance Co. - 1951
Unionists and activists shut down World Trade Organization meeting, Seattle, Wash. - 1999
- David Prosten
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