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Action Squared workers ratify first contract

FAQ about DC's latest stimulus payment

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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[link removed] Prince William County Labor Caucus: Mon, December 14, 7pm - 8pm
Meeting for union members and allies in Prince William County

[link removed] #MASKual Harassment: Tue, December 15, 2pm - 4pm
Speakers will be uplifting the findings of One Fair Wage's shocking new report on service workers' experience of health and harassment during Covid-19 entitled, "Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much To Tip You."

[link removed] Faith/Labor Caucus: Jeff Caruso: Tue, December 15, 4pm - 6pm
Caruso is the founding director of the Virginia Catholic Conference.

[link removed] DC Pay Stub Clinic (DC JWJ): Tue, December 15, 5pm - 7pm
Join DC Jobs with Justice and the Ethiopian Community Center for a webinar on your rights at work in DC.

[link removed] Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, December 15, 5pm - 7pm
Meeting of union members and allies in Loudoun County

[link removed] Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: The SAG-AFTRA podcast; The Blue Collar Gospel Hour; The Valley Labor Report; Labor History in Two; Labor Vision; CTU Speaks

Action Squared workers ratify first contract
A year after joining the [link removed] Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (IFPTE Local 70), staff at Action Squared -- the folks behind Action Network and Action Builder -- have ratified a contract. Highlights include incentives for professional development, paid parental leave, strong anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. "As a former union member and activist myself," said Action Squared president Brian Young, "I'll just say for people who are thinking about starting a union at their place of work but are a little nervous to try: the more nervous you are about the reaction of your organization, the more you probably need a union." [link removed] Read more here.
Plus: In related news, staff of the California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund have [link removed] joined NPEU, the first animal rights nonprofit to do so.

FAQ about DC's latest stimulus payment
You've got questions, the Metro Washington Council's Claimant Advocacy Program has answers. Everything you need to know about the $1200 DC PUA Stimulus payment is [link removed] posted here in a 2-page list of "10 Frequently Asked Questions" from DC's Department of Employment Services.

Today's labor quote: Charley Pride

"When I used to go to school and pledge allegiance to the flag, all those nice words about `liberty and justice for all,' I just had to look out my window: We had to play basketball outside while the whites had a gym. But my mother told me to hang in there, that someday it would be different, and that kept me believing."

The first major Black star in country music, Charley Pride got his start in the early 1960s, when his days were spent toiling in a smelter operated by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Helena, Montana. He died last Saturday at 86 of covid-19; [link removed] read more in the Washington Post. He grew up in the Mississippi cotton fields; here's Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town.

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Today's Labor History
This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Paul Robeson and the 1948 Library of Congress cafeteria workers' strike: With 95% of DC's hotel and restaurant workers out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back at the history of cafeteria workers' struggle at the Library of Congress for a union and how singer and activist Paul Robeson supported their 1948 strike. Plus: AFSCME's Lillian Roberts tells how a showdown with NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller over the right of state workers to organize led to her being jailed for two weeks in December, 1968; Mark Bradley, author of Blood Runs Coal, about the brutal 1968 murder of Jock Yablonski and his family by United Mineworkers president Tony Boyle, and how it inspired a surge in union democracy; The Beginning of the End of Apartheid.
Last week's show: [link removed] America's last general strike. photo: mass picket outside the Federal Works Administration during the 1948 cafeteria strike.

AFL convention passes a one-cent per capita assessment to aid the organization of women workers. (Exact date uncertain) - 1913

The Kansas national guard is called out to subdue from 2,000 to 6,000 protesting women who were going from mine to mine attacking non-striking miners in the Pittsburgh coal fields. The women made headlines across the state and the nation: they were christened the "Amazon Army" by the New York Times - 1921

Eight days after the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, the AFL pledges that there will be no strikes in defense-related plants for the duration of World War II - 1941

Meeting in its biennial convention, the AFL-CIO declares "unstinting support" for "measures the Administration might deem necessary to halt Communist aggression and secure a just and lasting peace" in Viet Nam - 1967

The U.S. Age Discrimination Employment Act becomes law. It bars employment discrimination against anyone age 40 or older - 1967
California's longest nurses strike ended after workers at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo and Pinole approved a new contract with Tenet Healthcare Corp., ending a 13-month walkout - 2003

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union organizer Clinton Jencks, who led New Mexico zinc miners in the strike depicted in the classic 1954 movie "Salt of the Earth," dies of natural causes in San Diego at age 87 - 2005

- David Prosten

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