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MD workers speak out for a single contract

Why workers support the SECURE Act

COVID's effect on a GMU janitor

Today's Labor Quote: Barbara Rauda

Weekend Labor History

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MD workers speak out for a single contract
Todd Holden is a web developer at the University of Maryland College Park. He heard stories about poor COVID working conditions from campus employees this summer after getting them PPE. Todd supports a single contract (Maryland SB9/HB486) so USM leaders can respond to crises more efficiently...Celina has worked at the UMD College Park health center for 9 years, and she's had to hold other jobs to support her family. Wages are low and workers like her have lost their second or third jobs during COVID. Celina supports a single contract so they can negotiate with one voice.
- [link removed] AFSCME Maryland

Why workers support the SECURE Act
The SECURE Act was re-introduced yesterday in the U.S. Congress by Senators Chris Van Hollen (D, MD) and Ben Cardin (D, MD). This legislation is intended to allow qualified Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients to apply for legal permanent residency. "My work as an essential cleaner at Walter Reed Military Hospital can mean life or death," said Barbara Rauda, a Walter Reed essential worker, 32BJ SEIU member and TPS recipient. "I've been in the U.S. for over 20 years and have three kids who are U.S. citizens. A green card would help keep families like mine together."

COVID's effect on a GMU janitor
Consuelo Granados, @GeorgeMasonU janitor is thousands of dollars in debt from being out sick w/COVID. Her grandson was born prematurely & hospitalized for 13 days. "I don't know how I am going to pay my bills." Please help @GMUPres by finding a more responsible contractor. Granados' story is among those in the Washington Post's report, [link removed] 900,000 infected. More
[link removed] than 15,000 dead: How the coronavirus tore through D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
- [link removed] 32BJ SEIU

Labor Quote: Barbara Rauda

Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] 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: [link removed] What's the matter with labor history?

Wobblie activist Tom Mooney convicted in bombing frame-up orchestrated by Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was pardoned and released 22 years later - 1917

Congress approves legislation allowing for a total of $940,000,000 to be used for Depression-era relief projects. $790,000,000 of this money was intended to be used to fund work relief and flood recovery programs - 1937

U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy falsely charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. It seems that just about everyone else the Wisconsin senator didn't like was a Communist as well, including scores of unionists. This was the beginning of "McCarthyism." He ultimately was officially condemned by the senate and died of alcoholism - 1950

President Kennedy asks Congress to approve creation of the Medicare program, financed by an increase in Social Security taxes, to aid 14.2 million Americans aged 65 or older - 1961

Some 19,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers in Washington state and Oregon begin what is to become a 40-day strike over economic issues - 2000

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