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Fair collective bargaining ordinance demanded in Alexandria

"Way past time" for Raise The Wage Act

Today's Labor History

Today's Labor Quote: George Orwell

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"The Sound of Democracy: A Global Noise Barrage for Myanmar": Thu, February 11, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
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Fair collective bargaining ordinance demanded in Alexandria
AFSCME VA is urging the Alexandria (VA) mayor and city council to ensure that any ordinance on collective bargaining be "similar to the breadth and the scope of the bill passed with near-unanimous support of the Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates last year." They're circulating a [link removed] petition that says front-line employees deserve a say in matters that impact them at work including safety, wages, benefits, and fair processes for grievances. "When public employees have a voice at work through collective bargaining, Alexandria's public services will be strengthened," said the union.

"Way past time" for Raise The Wage Act
"It is WAY past time to end the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers," said Ifeoma Ezimako, during Monday's [link removed] Raise the Wage Moral program. Ezimako is a tipped service worker in Washington, D.C. "This legacy of slavery MUST end. It exploits our workforce that is mainly built up of mostly women and people of color. Living off of barely $2 an hour plus tips forces us to endure and even tolerate inappropriate customer behavior since tips make up the bulk of our pay." Sponsored by the One Fair Wage, SEIU and the Poor People's Campaign, low-wage and tipped workers across the country called for passage of the Raise The Wage Act -- which includes a $15 federal minimum wage inclusive of tipped and youth workers, as well as workers with disabilities - and described how the increase would change their lives and improve the economy. Check out the event's livestream [link removed] here, where you can also send a letter to Congress.

Today's Labor Quote: George Orwell

"The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and `proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed."

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?

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) founds the Building and Construction Trades Department as a way to overcome the jurisdictional conflicts occurring in the building and construction unions - 1908

Eleven members of the Carpenters' union in Reesor Siding, Northern Ontario are shot, three fatally, by independent local farmer-settlers who were supplying wood to a Spruce Falls Power and Paper Co. plant. Some 400 union members were attempting to block an outbound shipment from the plant. The action came as the company was insisting on a pay freeze and two months of seven-day-a-week work - 1963

Forty workers are killed on Staten Island, NY when a huge storage tank filled with liquefied gas explodes - 1974

- David Prosten

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Communications
[link removed] Communications Organizer, TAAAC (Teachers Association of Anne Arundel County) (Posted: 2/3/2021) Maryland

Legal
[link removed] Assistant Counsel - Legal Department, AAUP (American Association of University Professors) (Posted: 2/3/2021)

Misc
[link removed] National Representative I-IV - Organization & Field Services Department, AFT (Posted: 2/3/2021)
[link removed] Senior Accountant, Iron Workers (Posted: 2/5/2021)

Political
[link removed] Legislative Representative/Generalist, AFL-CIO (Posted: 2/8/2021)

Research
[link removed] Research Specialist, UFCW (Posted: 2/8/2021)

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