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Catholic Labor Network report documents rampant wage theft in DC commercial construction industry

Community salutes WTU's Liz Davis on WPFW today

Labor On The Move: Blotner leaves JUFJ

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
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A Community Salute to WTU president Elizabeth Davis: Celebrating a Life of Advocacy & Grace: Thu, April 15, 12pm - 5pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or [link removed] listen online. See graphic below for details.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, April 15, 1pm - 2pm

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Guests: Labor leaders pay tribute to WTU president Liz Davis. Open phone: 202-588-0893.

Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, April 15, 7pm - 9pm

Email for call-in details: [email protected]

[link removed] NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, April 15, 7pm - 9pm

[link removed] Labor Committee for Affordable Housing: Fri, April 16, 3pm - 4pm

Committee to support tenant rights, housing justice and affordable housing.

Myanmar Solidarity Rally: Fri, April 16, 3pm - 4pm

600 Thirteenth Street, Suite 600 13th St NW, Washington, D.C., DC xxxxxx, USA ([link removed] map)

[link removed] Coalition to Repeal "Right to Work": Fri, April 16, 7pm - 8pm

Coalition of 50 organizations committed to advocating for workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain, including repeal of the so-called "right to work" law.

Missed last week's Your Rights At Work radio show? [link removed] Catch the podcast here. This week's show: AFL-CIO Communications Director Tim Schlittner on the PRO Act Digital Day of Action today; Moment of Silence for WTU 6 president Liz Davis; latest labor news headlines, including peeing in bottles at Amazon and our new Bad Bosses feature.

Catholic Labor Network report documents rampant wage theft in DC commercial construction industry
In an exhaustively-researched report released Wednesday morning, the Catholic Labor Network (CLN) documented extensive wage theft at Washington DC's largest construction sites. Nearly half of the workers surveyed were either paid with a check without required payroll tax deductions or paid in cash, 37% reported that they were not paid overtime, and 10% were paid less than the DC minimum wage. The Catholic Labor Network has provided copies of the report to area labor unions, DC government officials, and area media outlets and says it "hopes to work with its allies in labor, community, church and government to inspire strategic enforcement of wage and hour laws in the District to protect the community's most vulnerable workers." Read more and see the report [link removed] here.

Community salutes WTU's Liz Davis on WPFW today
Starting at noon today, tune in on [link removed] WPFW 89.3FM for a Community Salute to Washington Teachers Union president Liz Davis, who [link removed] passed away earlier this month. Today's salute will provide an opportunity for folks to remember Davis and celebrate a life dedicated to serving. The salute runs from noon to 5pm, and listener calls - 202-588-0893 -- are welcomed in the 1 to 2pm hour, when national and local labor leaders will be featured on Your Rights At Work.

Labor On The Move: Blotner leaves JUFJ
After six years at Jews United For Justice (JUFJ), Joanna Blotner, JUFJ's DC Legislative Director, is moving on to work as Legislative Director for Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George. "I'll still be in DC politics working with you all and, arguably, in an even better position now to keep fighting for all worker rights we all care about," Blotner assured allies on Tuesday. Reach her in Councilmember's Lewis George's office; for now the contact for JUFJ's Paid Family Leave campaign is Rabbi Elizabeth Richman at mailto:[email protected] [email protected].

Today's Labor Quote: Liz Davis

Telling the Washington Post about the first time she stood up to D.C. school administrators back in the 1960s. Liz, then a teenager, staged a walkout at Eastern High to protest the lack of African American history and culture in her school's curriculum. Hundreds of students joined her. It worked; the curriculum changed.

"That was the beginning. It was exciting. It was exhilarating. We were organizing. Even though my heart was pounding, I did it. I did not think it was possible."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: The US-Canadian Labor History Collaborative, plus songs about the 1913 Saskatchewan coal miners' strike.
Last week's show: [link removed] Canal workers, gays & miners, Gandhi's labor quote

A. Philip Randolph, civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born in Crescent City, Fla. - 1889

IWW union Agricultural Workers Organization formed in Kansas City, Mo. - 1915

Teacher unionists gather at the City Club on Plymouth Court in Chicago to form a new national union: the American Federation of Teachers - 1916

Start of ultimately successful six-day strike across New England by what has been described as the first women-led American union, the Telephone Operators Department of IBEW - 1919

Transport Workers Union founded - 1934

The first McDonald's Restaurant opens, in Des Plaines, Ill., setting the stage years later for sociologist Amitai Etzioni to coin the term "McJob." As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, a McJob is "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector." - 1955

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