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Servers Are Stars! 2/13 National Tipped Worker Day

Building Futures on America's Work Force Union Podcast

Solidarity Center Report: Lesotho Garment Worker Program to Combat Gender-Based Violence Begins

Today's Labor Quote: Frederick Douglass

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[link removed] Servers Are Stars! 2.13 National Tipped Worker Day: Sat, February 13, 2pm - 3pm
Hang out with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Amy Poehler and other celebrities who used to be servers. They're joining One Fair Wage,The Representation Project and We Stand United for a special Digital Storytelling Event.

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Servers Are Stars! 2/13 National Tipped Worker Day
This Saturday at 2pm EST you can hang out with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Amy Poehler and other celebrities who used to be servers. They're joining One Fair Wage, The Representation Project and We Stand United for a special [link removed] Digital Storytelling Event. February 13 (2.13) is an annual National Day of Action to bring awareness to the fact that the federal sub-minimum wage for tipped workers is just $2.13 an hour. "We will be hearing what it's like to work in the industry from current service industry workers and from celebrities who've had the experience of trying to live off tips. This is more important than ever," says One Fair Wage. "The Raise The Wage Act -- which includes a $15 federal minimum wage and full elimination of the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, differently abled workers, and youth -- has a real chance at becoming law. It's currently in President Biden's pandemic relief package and is an integral step in pulling working people out of poverty and jumpstarting economic recovery." Check out this [link removed] USA Today essay, featuring One Fair Wage members talking about the racism and sexism of the subminimum wage.

Building Futures on America's Work Force Union Podcast
"We teach our students labor history and contemporary issues as well as rights and responsibilities on the job, instilling in them union values and the right to organize," Sylvia Casaro Dietert told America's Work Force Union Podcast recently. Casaro Dietert is CSA's Client Services Coordinator and Director of the Building Futures Pre-Apprenticeship Program. Highlighting the importance of pre-apprenticeship as a recruitment tool for the trades' registered apprenticeship programs, Casaro Dietert added that "We are grooming them to become union members and hopefully future union leaders." Listen to the podcast [link removed] here. For more information about the program email mailto:[email protected] [email protected] and you can also hear Sylvia on this morning's [link removed] Union City Radio.

Solidarity Center Report: Lesotho Garment Worker Program to Combat Gender-Based Violence Begins
A worker-centered, precedent-setting program that targets gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in four Lesotho garment factories is now in effect for as many as 10,000 workers producing jeans for the global market. The program inauguration was marked by a social media campaign, including SMS text blasts to garment workers, Lesotho-based media coverage and a video announcement by signatories to binding 2019 agreements--the factory owner, brands, local unions and women's rights groups, and international organizations and unions, including the Solidarity Center. Find out more at Solidarity Center.

Labor Quote: Frederick Douglass

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened around his own neck."

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?

February 12
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born into slavery near Easton, MD - 1818

John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America and founding president of the CIO, born near Lucas, IA - 1880

February 13
A national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ends in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars--the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States - 1865

Some 12,000 Hollywood writers returned to work today following a largely-successful three-month strike against television and motion picture studios. They won compensation for their TV and movie work that gets streamed on the Internet - 2008

February 14
President Theodore Roosevelt creates the Department of Commerce and Labor. It was divided into two separate government departments ten years later - 1903

Western Federation of Miners strike for 8-hour day - 1903

Jimmy Hoffa born in Brazil, Indiana, son of a coal miner. Disappeared July 30, 1975, declared dead seven years later - 1913
Striking workers at Detroit's newspapers, out since the previous July, offer to return to work. The offer is accepted five days later but the newspapers vow to retain some 1,200 scabs. A court ruling the following year ordered as many as 1,100 former strikers reinstated - 1996

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