DC Labor FilmFest: Celebrating 20 Years of Great Labor Films!
WORK SONGS: Tickets $12

THE LUNCHROOM: Tickets $5
IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE: Tickets $5
MISS MARX: Tickets $5

THE CHAMBERMAID [LA CAMARISTA]; Tickets $5

Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

Airport Union Caucus: Mon, May 17, 11am – 12pm
Meeting of unions of airline and airport workers at DCA and Dulles.

Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, May 18, 5pm – 6pm

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Solidarity Works; Welcome to Uniontown; UnionDues; Union Strong; Monday Morning QB; Working People; The Docker Podcast.

MetroAccess OCC workers back at table after 1-day strike
MetroAccess Operations Call Center (OCC) workers, represented by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689, returned to work last Saturday after walking out on strike Friday morning (click here for our full report), in protest of WMATA contractor MV Transportation’s poor treatment and unfair labor practices. “We’re done being disrespected,” shop steward Tonia White told The Washington Post during a boisterous picket Friday afternoon, where she said many of her colleagues are African American women, including struggling single mothers. “They absolutely refuse to give us what we’re worth.” Click here to hear White on last Thursday’s Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM. MV Transportation, a private corporation, provides dispatch, reservation, and scheduling of all MetroAccess paratransit services. “There are still many issues to negotiate, but our riders come first and foremost for us,” said John Costa, the union’s international president. “We do reserve the right to walk off the job again” if the company doesn’t bargain in good faith."

Today's Labor Quote: Robert Reich

"The GOP doesn't give a fig about working people. It is, and always will be the party of big business and billionaires."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Passaic textile strike & LAWCHA preview. Last week’s show: Sea Shanties and the Pleasure of Work

First women’s anti-slavery conference, Philadelphia - 1838

Governor of California signs a law stating that 10 hours of work should constitute a legal day's work. - 1853

Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools - 1954

Twelve Starbucks baristas in a mid-town Manhattan store, declaring they couldn’t live on $7.75 an hour, signed cards demanding representation by the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies. Management roadblocks continue to deny the workers their union to this day - 2004

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