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AFL-CIO Week of Action on the PRO Act: Apr 26 – May 1, 2021
This is the national AFL-CIO's week of action on the PRO Act. Please call Senator Warner at 202-224-2023 or 703-442-0670 and ask him to co-sponsor the bill.
A Celebration of Spirit: Liz Davis (Viewing): Tue, April 27, 3pm – 7pm
Shiloh Baptist Church, 1500 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA (map)
George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, April 27, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Coalition of faculty, students, alumni, staff and contract workers at GMU.
Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, April 27, 5pm – 7pm
RSVP here.
Film: HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle: Apr 28 – May 2, 2021
Click here to register for the May 1 8p ET discussion with director Adrian Prawica and labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steven Brier (CUNY School of Labor), moderated by DC Labor FilmFest director Chris Garlock; click here for free registration for the film; you’ll be able to watch the film at your convenience (available beginning at 12noon Wednesday April 28).
Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class: Apr 28 – May 1, 2021
Hosted by the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor; Register for free.
Wednesdays with Warner for the PRO Act: Wed, April 28, 8:15am – 8:45am
Windmill Hill Park, 501 S Union St, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA (map)
Workers' Memorial Day Mass: Wed, April 28, 5pm – 6pm
1600 St Camillus Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA (map)
IBEW Local 26, The Building Trades, St. Camillus Catholic Parish and its pastor Father Brian Jordan, OFM invite you to participate in a Workers Memorial Day Mass on Wednesday April 28 at 5 pm. You may participate in person at St. Camillus Church, 1600 St. Camillus Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland 20903 or view livestream here.
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, April 28, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Alexandria.
Contact [email protected] for the link.
NPR digital media workers organize
Rank-and-file employees of NPR's Digital Media Division on Monday announced they’re joining NABET-CWA Local 31. “We ask that NPR leadership voluntarily recognize our union and work with us in good faith to build the NPR our Member stations and audience deserve,” tweeted the new union, Digital Media United (@WeBuildNPR). “By joining NABET-CWA Local 31, we are building a bridge between broadcast and digital and charting a path toward ever closer collaboration with our newsroom, programming, and RAD (Research, Archives, and Data) colleagues in SAG-AFTRA.”
How to show your PRO Act support
Whether you’re on yet another Zoom meeting or just sharing on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, the AFL-CIO has a ton of great graphics to easily show off your support for the PRO Act during the Week of Action. Click here for PRO Act Zoom backgrounds and click here for PRO Act social graphics. There’s a lot more resources – including factsheets and more – on the PRO Act toolkit.
Labor On The Move: EPI’s Thea Lee to join Biden/Harris administration
Economic Policy Institute president Thea Lee has announced she’s stepping down from EPI to join the Biden/Harris administration. “It is not easy to leave an organization like EPI—and the extraordinarily brilliant, insightful, and delightful staff—but I believe there is a short window that provides an opportunity for me to contribute to work I care deeply about,” Lee said in an announcement last Thursday. “I know EPI will continue to advance its mission to strengthen workers’ voice and power at the workplace and beyond and to make the world fairer and more humane,” Lee added. “I will be eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to work alongside EPI’s amazing staff, and I look forward to staying connected in this next chapter for me and for EPI.” Lee’s departure is effective May 7; details of her new job are expected to be announced soon.
Today's Labor Quote: “Bread and Roses”
As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days—
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes—
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.
Click here to hear “Bread and Roses sung by local acapella group SongRise. James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses” was published in the IWW newspaper “Industrial Solidarity” on this date in 1946, but was originally published in December 1911.
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living! Last week’s show: Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas.
First strike for 10 hour day, by Boston carpenters - 1825
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Executive Order 10450: Security Requirements for Government Employment. The order listed “sexual perversion” as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants - 1953
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