Missed yesterday's Your Rights At Work? Click here to check out Peter Cole on “Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly” and Dr. Laura Warren Hill on “Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970.”
Vaccinations now available to certain DC workers
Individuals in the District who work in a grocery store setting, health and human services and social services outreach, manufacturing, and food packaging are now eligible to book vaccination appointments online here or the Call Center.
DC homeowner payment assistance program
The DC Housing Finance Agency has announced the reopening of HomeSaver, a payment assistance program for DC homeowners who are behind on their mortgage or other housing payments, including condo fees. HomeSaver provides up to $60,000 in lump-sum catch-up assistance and/or ongoing monthly payment assistance. Unemployed or underemployed DC homeowners may qualify for both catch-up and ongoing payment assistance if they experienced an eligible hardship and are no more than 16 months behind on their payments. Homeowners should apply now, as funds are limited and applications will only be accepted through May 14.
- Tonya D. Love, CAP Director
Union Voice/Readers Write: NC organizing clarification
“The quote from the North Carolina nurse (2/17 UC) about the biggest win in NC since the ‘70s" needs clarification, writes Gene Bruskin, who helped 4,500 Smithfield workers join UFCW in Tar Heel, NC in December 2008.
The 1,800 RNs at HCA’s Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina who joined NNU last September notched the first private sector hospital union election win in North Carolina, the largest at any nonunion hospital in the South since 1975.
"What Amazon is trying to really do is essentially just keep workers from knowing that the whole world supports them and that our country supports them, that our president supports them, that their family supports them and the city of Bessemer supports them."
Josh is the lead organizer for RWDSU, which is organizing Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama; watch the Labor Radio Podcast Network livestream here.
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Valentine’s Day Strike of 1921. Last week’s show: Remembering John Sweeney and Anne Feeney
February 19
American Federation of Labor issues a charter to its new Railroad Employees Dept. - 1909
A few weeks after workers ask for a 25 cent hourly wage, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit (streetcar) Co. fires 173 union members “for the good of the service” and brings in replacements from New York City. Striker-scab battles and a general strike ensued - 1910
The U.S. Supreme Court decides in favor of sales clerk Leura Collins and her union, the Retail Clerks, in NLRB v. J. Weingarten Inc. – the case establishing that workers have a right to request the presence of their union steward if they believe they are to be disciplined for a workplace infraction - 1975
International Union of Police Associations granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1979
Farm Labor Organizing Committee signs agreement with Campbell Soup Co., ending seven-year boycott - 1986
February 20
Rally for unemployed becomes major confrontation in Philadelphia, 18 arrested for demanding jobs - 1908
Thousands of women march to New York’s City Hall demanding relief from exorbitant wartime food prices. Inflation had wiped out any wage gains made by workers, leading to a high level of working class protest during World War I - 1917
United Mine Workers settle 10-month Pittston strike in Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia - 1990
February 21
A California state law was enacted providing the 8 hour day for most workers, but it was not effectively enforced - 1868
Transportation-Communication Employees Union merges with Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees - 1969
United Farm Workers of America granted a charter by the AFL-CIO - 1972
- David Prosten
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