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Biden signs Executive Order restoring collective bargaining rights for feds

Frontline property service workers union praises Biden's Executive Order ensuring $15 minimum wage for federally contracted workers

ATU applauds Biden's Executive Order on mask mandate on public transit

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Biden signs Executive Order restoring collective bargaining rights for feds
Fulfilling a campaign promise, President Biden signed an executive order Friday afternoon rescinding a series of orders issued by former President Trump aimed at gutting federal employee unions and stripping federal workers of their civil service protections. [link removed] Read more here.
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Frontline property service workers union praises Biden's Executive Order ensuring $15 minimum wage for federally contracted workers
"Essential frontline workers doing the thankless, dangerous but vital jobs to keep us healthy and safe have long deserved a livable wage that's critical to helping them better support themselves and their families," said Jaime Contreras, Vice President of 32BJ SEIU. "The ripple effect cannot be underestimated, and jurisdictions nationwide, including Congress would be wise to follow this responsible example."

ATU applauds Biden's Executive Order on mask mandate on public transit
"This Executive Order by President Biden shows his serious commitment to protecting frontline workers and the riding public," said ATU president John Costa. "Since the outbreak hit, the ATU has been at the forefront of demanding transit agencies, private contractors, and elected officials move quickly to deliver needed protections and policy changes for keeping transit workers and riders safe and our transit systems running."

Labor Quote: Andrea Blackwelder Stanley

Stanley is the IATSE 22 member who said that the display of flags on the National Mall at last week's inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris -- set up by members of her local -- "represents opportunity. Opportunity to earn a living wage and to make something beautiful to lift the hearts and spirits of a nation that is mourning so much loss and division. To me, it represents all the people of the U.S. coming together as one to be healed."

Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The People, No.
Kansas City native Thomas Frank talks with the Heartland Labor Forum radio show about his new book about American populism, the long trail of elites who hate it, why pundits called Donald Trump a populist and why he's nothing of the kind. Harvey J. Kaye on The Fight for The Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and The Greatest Generation Truly Great, from Empathy Media Lab. And on Labor History in 2:00, Rick Smith tells us about Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
Last week's show: [link removed] Stand! The new hit labor musical.

Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights convention - 1851

The Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA) is founded in Toledo, Ohio as the Tin, Sheet Iron and Cornice Workers' International Association - 1888

United Mine Workers of America founded in Columbus, Ohio. The union's constitution barred racial, religious and ethnic discrimination - 1890
200 miners are killed in an horrific explosion at the Harwick mine in Cheswick, Pa., Allegheny County. Many of the dead lay entombed in the sealed mine to this day - 1904

The Supreme Court upholds "Yellow Dog" employment contracts, which forbid membership in labor unions. Yellow Dog contracts remained legal until 1932 - 1915

16,000 textile workers strike in Passaic, N.J. - 1926

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