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Bowser targeted by rally for DC Essential Workers' Bill of Rights
AFL-CIO launches Virginia ad campaign boosting the PRO Act
Solidarity Center Launches New Climate Justice Plan
Today's Labor Quote
Today's Labor History
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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.
Film: HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle: Apr 28 - May 2, 2021
[link removed] Click here to register for the May 1 8p ET discussion (see below) and [link removed] click here for free registration for the film; you'll be able to watch the film at your convenience (available beginning at 12noon Wed April 28).
Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class: Apr 28 - May 1, 2021
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Video: We Mean To Make Things Over: Thu, April 29, 4pm - 5pm
A special sneak preview rough cut screening of a video in progress: [link removed] We mean to make things over: A labor history of May Day and discussion of the PRO Act (Protecting the Right to Organize Act).
[link removed] Virtual Workers Memorial Day Program (Jewish Labor Committee): Thu, April 29, 4pm - 5pm
Book talk: Trumka & Anand on "Winners Take All": Thu, April 29, 6pm - 8pm
Streaming in real time on the [link removed] Toledo Lucas County Public Library Facebook page and viewers are invited to be a part of the conversation via Zoom by [link removed] registering here.
[link removed] Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, April 29, 6pm - 7pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Arlington. [link removed]
Missed last week's Your Rights At Work radio show? [link removed] Catch the podcast here: David Stephen, MWC political director, on today's historic House vote on DC statehood; Ginny Diamond, NoVA Labor president, on the Volvo worker strike in Dublin, VA; Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative Associate Director, onhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/constructing-a-new-social-compact-tickets-138682802997 Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class, April 28 - May 1, 2021. Plushttps://youtu.be/JoHx-QHyXRE D.C. Vote by the Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band.
Bowser targeted by rally for DC Essential Workers' Bill of Rights
Next week's Virtual Rally for the DC Essential Workers' Bill Of Rights - Weds, May 5 at 6p, [link removed] click here to RSVP - will focus on DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. "We are fighting to make sure that essential workers have sick leave, hazard pay, paid bereavement leave, and stronger workplace safety," says Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester. "Mayor Bowser has the power to make this happen, so join us as we rally to urge her to get it done." Another focus of the rally are the local workers who lost their lives in this pandemic, "and we'll hear stories from frontline workers who have been affected by unsafe workplaces," says MWC Political Director David Stephen. "Make sure you spread the word to your union brothers and sisters as we rally for essential worker protections!" You must register in advance [link removed] here.
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AFL-CIO launches Virginia ad campaign boosting the PRO Act
The AFL-CIO launched a major ad campaign in Virginia this week, airing statewide television and radio ads promoting the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The advertising campaign is aligned with a national week of action, from April 26 to May 1, mobilizing working people to demand Senate passage of the landmark worker rights bill. "We're taking nothing for granted," said AFL-CIO spokesperson Kalina Newman. "The PRO Act is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to give working people a stronger voice on the job. We're making sure the Senate hears us loud and clear by reminding Virginians of what they already know: It shouldn't be this hard just to get by." The TV ad features a number of MWC and NoVA Labor affiliates and the radio ad features a personal testimonial from United Steelworkers (USW) member Sederick Wilson.
Solidarity Center Launches New Climate Justice Plan
The Solidarity Center is launching a new, partner-informed, inclusive strategic plan to support workers and their unions around the world to address impacts and drive solutions for an accelerating climate crisis.
"The Solidarity Center recognizes that workers and their communities--especially in the global south--are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis. We are committed to directing resources and attention toward people-centered climate policy and legislative advocacy by our partners and allies in their respective countries," says Shawna-Bader Blau, Solidarity Center executive director.
The Solidarity Center's strategic plan includes using collective bargaining to advance cleaner, safer and more sustainable operations across sectors and developing worker-driven climate solutions. Find out more at [link removed] Solidarity Center.
Solidarity Center initiatives to advance climate justice include a convening of palm oil unions from Colombia, Honduras, Indonesia and Malaysia, with environmental partners, to support implementation of a strategic plan by labor leaders from those countries that addresses issues with common actors and challenges within the supply chain, and pursues advocacy avenues for worker protection demands and engagement in policymaking on climate-change mitigation measures. photo: Oscar Durand / Solidarity Center
Today's Labor Quote: Jacob Coxey
"We have come here through toil and weary marches, through storms and tempests, over mountains, and amid the trials of poverty and distress, to lay our grievances at the doors of our National Legislature."
TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
This week'shttps://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s3mhe-101b036 Labor History Today podcast: Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living! Last week's show:[link removed] Ludlow: My name is Louis Tikas.
Coxey's Army of 500 unemployed civil war veterans reaches Washington, DC - 1894
photo: Coxey's Army approaches DC
When their demand that only union men be employed was refused, members of the Western Federation of Miners dynamited and destroyed the $250,000 mill of the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho - 1899
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