TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for complete and latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily DC Labor FilmFest: 20 Years of Great Labor Films!
Essential Workers Bill of Rights Press Conference: Wed, May 19, 11am – 12pm Freedom Plaza, 1325 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004 WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
LABOR GOES TO THE MOVIES podcast Movie Club discussion: Thu, May 20, 7pm – 8pm Join podcast hosts Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant -- and special surprise guests -- for a freewheeling discussion of the films in this year's DC Labor FilmFest!
Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, May 20, 7pm – 9pm
Workers demand Bill of Rights in DC Local essential workers and area union and community leaders will call on DC Mayor Muriel Bowser this morning (see Calendar) to include the DC Essential Workers Bill of Rights in her upcoming FY 2022 budget proposal. “As frontline workers, we’re the first people you see when you go into grocery stores, hotels, office buildings,” said Nyah Foster, a D.C. security officer and 32BJ SEIU member. “We’re also being exposed to COVID and have to decontaminate ourselves before we get home so we don’t expose our families. It’s very stressful. We’re in the middle of everything, but it feels like we’re being left behind.” The DC Essential Workers Bill of Rights Coalition includes nearly two dozen area unions and worker justice allies. The coalition is calling on Mayor Bowser to ensure that essential workers receive the increased pay and protections they need, including sick leave, hazard pay, paid bereavement leave and stronger workplace safety measures to protect against COVID-19. 
Vita Health workers win contract Labor In The News: SEIU 32BJ's Jaime Contreras Public health experts are still cautious, but they say this could be the beginning of the end. Fourteen months after the Washington region’s first reported case of the coronavirus, daily infections and deaths are trending down as vaccinations take hold. Hospitals are seeing far fewer critically ill patients, and funeral homes are receiving fewer covid-19 victims. A union chief in D.C. says it’s been two months since he’s had to call a bereaved family to brief them on their loved one’s life insurance policy. “The most difficult moments for me personally were those 25 calls,” said Jaime Contreras, vice president of the Service Employees International Union in the capital area. “They were draining and devastating. But they’ve — thank God — they’ve stopped.” Read more in The Washington Post. Union Voice/Readers Write: NJ solidarity against MV Transportation Today’s Labor Quote: John L. Lewis
"The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few."
John L. Lewis was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organization; the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formed by the Congress of Industrial Organizations, formally became the United Steelworkers of America on this date in 1942. Today's Labor History Explosion in Coal Creek, Tenn. kills 184 miners - 1902
- David Prosten Communications
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