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Union calls for DC-area hotel closures to protect staff and public

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Union calls for DC-area hotel closures to protect staff and public

UNITE HERE Local 25, which representing 7,200 hotel workers in the DC area, on Wednesday called on hotels in the metro area to close, unless they are hosting security personnel. Local 25 also called for any hotel hosting security personnel to permit their staff to opt-out of reporting to work, and allow them to leave at any time if they feel unsafe. "Last week, we watched in horror as insurrectionists terrorized the District, putting our members, as well as the broader public, at risk of violence and exposure to COVID-19," said John Boardman, Local 25's Executive Secretary-Treasurer. "Our union took decisive action to protect our members, and called on our hotels to evacuate. But the threat has not dissipated, as we continue to hear reports of armed, far-right militias planning to threaten Washington in the days ahead." Boardman will discuss this on today's Your Rights At Work radio show on [link removed] WPFW 89.3 FM at 1pm.

ACLU National organizes with NPEU
A supermajority of ACLU national workers on Wednesday announced intentions to unionize and form ACLU Staff United with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU). The staff called on Executive Director Anthony Romero to voluntarily recognize their union. "We want to ensure that all workers have what we need to do our jobs every day, no matter the external circumstances," the ACLU Staff United Organizing Committee said in a statement. "We envision a future in which staff and leadership make structural decisions together, rather than in silos. We also want accountability and transparency related to retention of staff, particularly given that dozens of Black women have left our organization over the past several months." "Workers' rights are civil rights and by forming a union, the staff is exercising their fundamental workplace right to bargain over the conditions of their employment," said NPEU President Kayla Blado. "We look forward to a quick, amicable and productive recognition process with ACLU leadership."

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"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth."

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This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The Vancouver Island Coal Strike; Skyscraper Labor
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In Part 1 of her [link removed] online talk for The Skyscraper Museum last November, architectural historian Joanna Merwood-Salisbury traces labor protests in the construction industry in Chicago in the 1880s and examines the formation of unions uniting trades-based groups with ethnic organizations, as well as the public spaces of their protest movements.
And on Labor History in 2:00, Rick Smith tells us about The Rise of Settlement Houses.
Last week's show: [link removed] Cutting along the Color Line

Clinton-era OSHA issues confined spaces standard to prevent more than 50 deaths and 5,000 serious injuries annually for workers who enter confined spaces - 1993

Pennsylvania Superior Court rules bosses can fire workers for being gay - 1995

Some 14,000 General Electric employees strike for two days (below) to protest the company's mid-contract decision to shift an average of $400 in additional health care co-payments onto each worker - 2003

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