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Confronting the Digital Workplace: Whose Power? Whose Voice?: Wed, January 27, 11:00am – 12:30pm
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FILM: 9to5: The Story of a Movement: Wed, January 27, 7pm – 9pm
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Fairfax Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, January 27, 7pm – 8pm
Special guest is Kyle deCant, Labor Counsel to the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee. The Chair of this House Committee is Virginia's own hero Rep. Bobby Scott, chief patron of the PRO Act.
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Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, January 27, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Alexandria.
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Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, January 28, 6pm – 8pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Arlington
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Your Rights At Work During The Pandemic: Thu, January 28, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
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Shenandoah Valley Labor/Community Alliance: Thu, January 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Meeting of union activists and community allies in the Shenandoah Valley
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AFSCME MD mourns loss of 3 more members to COVID
A correctional maintenance officer in Baltimore City, a correctional officer in Hagerstown, and a facilities employee at the University of Maryland, College Park are all the latest AFSCME Maryland members to die from COVID. “As this global pandemic rages, and public health experts warn us that the most dangerous days are ahead, AFSCME Local 1072 continues its fight to ensure that our members at the University of Maryland College Park are equipped, informed, and safe,” said Local 1072 president Todd Holden. AFSCME Maryland reports that over 3,000 members have tested positive for COVID. “It is again so sad that we are at this junction once again,” said AFSCME Maryland president Patrick Moran. “It further demonstrates that the Hogan Administration and the USM only view our members as cogs in a machine. No matter how many get sick or die they continue to operate like business as usual.”
OPEIU scores organizing win at Emily’s ListOn Tuesday, Emily’s List management voluntarily recognized the Emily’s List staff union (Emily’s List Staff Unionize 12/17 UC) through a card-check process conducted by a neutral party; the employees will be represented by OPEIU Local 2 in the D.C. metropolitan area. Contract negotiations will begin in the coming weeks. Since its launch in mid-2019, more than 1,000 nonprofit workers at dozens of workplaces throughout the country have organized with NEU. During the COVID-19 pandemic, OPEIU organized 530 workers at 18 nonprofit workplaces. In more than half of these organizing campaigns, the employer agreed to voluntarily recognize the union through a card-check verification conducted by a neutral party. Emily’s List is a fundraising group that supports pro-choice women running for office.- AFL-CIO Daily Brief
Today’s Labor Quote: Bayard Rustin
"Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it."
Union Voice/Readers Write: Just a century off
"I think you've got a typo in the date for the day the meat cutters' union received their charter," writes OPEIU Local 2 shop steward Lynn O'Brien. "Shouldn't it be 1897 instead of 1997?"
Yes indeed it's 1897; thanks for the catch!
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Stand! The new hit labor musical. Last week’s show: The Vancouver Island Coal Strike; Skyscraper Labor.
New York City maids organize to improve working conditions – 1734
Mine explosion in Mount Pleasant, Penn. leaves more than 100 dead – 1891
Kansas miners strike against compulsory arbitration - 1920
First meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) – 1920
A 3-cent postage stamp is issued, honoring AFL founder Samuel Gompers - 1950
A group of Detroit African-American auto workers known as the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement leads a wildcat strike against racism and bad working conditions. They are critical of both automakers and the UAW, condemning the seniority system and grievance procedures as racist - 1969
- David Prosten
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