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Laborers fight to save jobs at Johns Hopkins University

In Memoriam: Nelvin Ransome, UFCW 1994

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Rally at Tysons Corner To Protest Union-Busting: Tue, January 5, 12pm - 1pm
1950 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA
Anti-union company K&S has busted the union (SEIU 32BJ) at this site; masks and social distancing. #JusticeForJanitors

[link removed] Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, January 5, 5pm - 6pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Loudoun County.

[link removed] Shenandoah Valley Labor Caucus: Tue, January 5, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Union members and community allies joining together for worker rights in the Shenandoah Valley.

NoVA Labor Arts Caucus: Wed, January 6, 3pm - 4pm
Meeting of unions representing broadcast and performing arts to address common concerns about covid, unemployment, organizing and bargaining. Contact Jess Speaker for the link: mailto:[email protected] [email protected]

Catholic Labor Network Briefing for 2021 MD Legislative Session: Wed, January 6, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
[link removed]- Click here to register.

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, January 6, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Alexandria. Contact mailto:[email protected] [email protected] for the link.

Missed last week's Your Rights At Work radio show? [link removed] Catch the podcast here; Chris and Ed say goodbye to 2020 with a dozen work-themed songs. This show is dedicated to Andrew Washington (AFSCME Council 20) and all the working men and women taken from us this year by the COVID pandemic. Rest in Power, brothers and sisters!

Laborers fight to save jobs at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University wants to cut 35 blue-collar jobs at their School of Medicine, arguing that these layoffs are necessary to save money. "Yet the University plans to hire outside contractors to perform the employees' duties," reports Local 572 of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), which represents the employees, who include a wide variety of workers at the University, from custodians to trades people to lab technicians. Local 572 - currently in contract negotiations with Johns Hopkins -- has already gathered almost 800 of the 1,000 signatures they need on a [link removed] petition to help save the jobs and livelihoods of these working families.

In Memoriam: Nelvin Ransome, UFCW 1994
Long-time UFCW Local 1994 Recorder and union brother Nelvin Ransome passed away on December 17 from COVID-related complications, reported 1994 president Gino Renne. "Nelvin was a fierce warrior for the entire labor movement," said Renne. "We are raw from this news. Nelvin's passing leaves a hole in our hearts. He will be missed greatly." Nelvin had been a part of the Local 1994 family since he started working with Ride-On as a Bus Operator in 1989. He became a Shop Steward after just a few short years and was elected to the Executive Board in 2006. Ultimately, he rose to the office of Recorder and held that position until November 30, 2020. Read more on UFCW Local 1994's [link removed] Facebook page.

Today's labor quote: Jim Hightower

"I'm an agitator. The agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out!"

Hightower is a radio commentator and author of books including Thieves in High Places and The People Are Revolting!

Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Cutting along the Color Line; Quincy Mills, Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park on black barbers, the evolution of their trade, and its political meaning as a skilled form of labor.
Last week's show: [link removed] Cordwainers strike of 1805

Ford Motor Company raises wages from $2.40 for a 9-hour day to $5 for an 8 hour day in effort to keep the unions out - 1914

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins. Ten of the eleven deaths on the job came when safety netting beneath the site - the first-ever use of such equipment - failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen other workers were saved by the net over the course of construction. They became members of the (informal) Halfway to Hell Club - 1933

- David Prosten

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