LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report
Raise The Wage Act Moral Monday: Mon, February 8, 12pm – 2pm
Workers for One Fair Wage!: Tue, February 9, 12pm – 1pm
DC COPE meeting: Tue, February 9, 2pm – 4pm
Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, February 9, 5pm – 7pm
FILM: 9to5: The Story of a Movement: Tue, February 9, 7pm – 9pm
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, February 10, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Contact [email protected] for the link.
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, February 11, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
NoVA Labor Committee on the Environment: Thu, February 11, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, February 11, 6pm – 8pm
This week's Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: America's Workforce Radio; Working People; Solidarity Works; Educating From the Heart; BCTGM Voices Project; Grit NW; Unify
Help get Warner on board PRO Act
U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D, VA) is the only senator in the DMV who has not yet signed on as an original co-sponsor of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which was introduced last Thursday. The PRO Act is a long overdue proposal that would restore fairness to workers by strengthening the federal laws that protect the right to organize a union and bargain for good wages and better benefits. The PRO Act is the cornerstone of the AFL-CIO’s Workers First Agenda.
Raise The Wage Moral Monday
One Fair Wage and the Poor People's Campaign rally at noon today on The National Mall to support two policies moving forward on the federal level that will positively impact the future of workers. One is the Biden-Harris Administrations' American Rescue Plan, which provides relief for small businesses and workers including ONE FAIR WAGE (meaning $15 federal minimum wage for all, plus tips on top for traditionally tipped workers). The other is the Raise the Wage Act, which explicitly calls for the $15 federal minimum wage for all workers including farm and domestic workers, plus one fair wage with tips on top for traditionally tipped workers. Here's an RSVP link; Jose Andres is providing complimentary food and attendees must wear a mask and remain socially distant. Sign the petition to give all workers One Fair Wage.
Labor Quote: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
“I was convinced that the workers must organize. Someone must go from shop to shop and find out who the workers were that were willing to work for better working conditions. I must be that someone.”
At age 28, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan was appointed the first female general organizer for the American Federation of Labor by AFL President Samuel Gompers.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney
We lost two giants of the labor movement this week, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and labor folksinger and activist Anne Feeney; on today’s show we remember them both. Plus: Strike at Cripple Creek.
Last week’s show: What’s the matter with labor history?
Vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free-speech rights, San Diego - 1912
- David Prosten
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