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Tell your representative: Vote YES on the PRO Act: Thu, April 8, 10am – 11am
The AFL-CIO invites you to participate in a PRO Act Digital Day of Action, driving calls and letters into all 100 Senate offices and echoing President Biden's historic speech in Pittsburgh urging Congress to send the PRO Act to his desk. CALL YOUR SENATORS HERE
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, April 8, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online (map)
Today’s show: AFL-CIO Communications Director Tim Schlittner on the PRO Act Digital Day of Action; latest labor news headlines; Moment of Silence for WTU’s Liz Davis; listener calls.
Labor Committee on the Environment: Thu, April 8, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Committee of union members and environmentalists to promote a pro-worker agenda for a clean economy.
Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, April 8, 6pm – 7pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Arlington.
A Woman’s Place Is in Her Union: How the PRO Act Will Help Women Workers
Thu, April 8, 7pm – 9pm
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler hosts a roundtable discussion.
NoVA Labor Solidarity with TPS Alliance: Fri, April 9, 11am – 12pm
Freedom Plaza, 1339 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004 (map)
Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Working Life; Working People; Heartland Labor Forum; America’s Work Force; Work Week RadioInside the Amazon union vote count…a report from the striking Colombia University Academic Workers…Plus we’ve got two stories about newspaper workers organizing, and a special report on privatization and outsourcing at Golden Gate Park. Click here or search for Labor Radio Podcast Weekly in your favorite podcast platform.
7 Anti-Union Shenanigans the PRO Act Would Fix
The votes are still being tallied in the unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, putting the issue of collective bargaining and the need to unionize more American workers at the forefront of our political discussion. Amazon’s anti-union campaign does not stand alone in a vacuum. Amazon is part of a long history of employers that have opposed union organizing. Employers commonly use a variety of tactics, legal and illegal, to make it difficult for workers to form unions. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would help level the playing field; take a moment to watch EPI President Thea Lee explain how.
THIS JUST IN: New poll shows 77% of Americans support Amazon union drive.
LGBTQ+ Domestic Workers Win Rights, Respect Through Their Union
As a trans domestic worker from Nicaragua working in Guatemala, Francia Blanco says her experiences with verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, and forced labor conditions led her to take action to build a world where trans domestic workers had rights, respect and dignity on the job.
On the latest Solidarity Center Podcast, Blanco shares with Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau how she and other trans domestic workers helped form SITRADOVTRANS, a union of trans domestic workers, to win rights and respect at work, in the labor movement and in their communities. Listen to Solidarity Center Podcasts here or wherever you get your podcasts, and find out more at the Solidarity Center.
Today's Labor Quote: Thea Lee
“The PRO Act is the most significant labor law overhaul since the New Deal. American workers need it now.”
Thea Lee is president of the Economic Policy Institute.
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Canal workers, gays & miners, Gandhi’s labor quote. Last week’s show: The Hardhat Riot.
128 convict miners, leased to a coal company under the state’s shameful convict lease system, are killed in an explosion at the Banner coal mine outside Birmingham, Ala. The miners were mostly African-Americans jailed for minor offenses - 1911
President Wilson establishes the War Labor Board, composed of representatives from business and labor, to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers during World War I - 1918
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is approved by Congress. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed the WPA during the Great Depression of the 1930s when almost 25 percent of Americans were unemployed. It created low-paying federal jobs providing immediate relief, putting 8.5 million jobless to work on projects ranging from construction of bridges, highways and public buildings to arts programs like the Federal Writers' Project - 1935 photo: WPA workers at Presidio Park, 1937. Photo courtesy San Diego History Center
President Harry S Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize the nation’s steel mills to avert a strike. The Supreme Court ruled the act illegal three weeks later - 1952
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