DC Labor FilmFest: LAST WEEK!
Click here for tickets. All films available through Sunday, June 6: WORK SONGS * THE LUNCHROOM * IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE * MISS MARX * THE CHAMBERMAID * THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS * NASRIN * THE NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS

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

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 3, 1pm – 2pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
Guests include: Will Attig, Union Veterans Council, Tom Fowler on Class, Country Music and Social Change.

Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, June 3, 6pm – 8pm

Meeting of union members and community allies in Arlington.

photo: At yesterday's 11th Wednesday with Warner; Greg Davis of UA Local 602 with this week's offering: cupcakes with scrambled letters. "If Senator Warner can figure out what they say, maybe he will do the right thing!" says NoVA Labor's Virginia Diamond.

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: WorkWeek Radio; America’s Workforce Radio; Your Rights At Work; UnionDues; RadioLabour; America Works; CTU Speaks; Grit NorthWest; On the Line: Stories of BC Workers.

MD Dems and labor leaders denounce Hogan’s efforts to end UI
After Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan yesterday announced his decision to end supplemental unemployment benefits in early July, Maryland unions applauded the efforts of members of the General Assembly to oppose or mitigate his action. “Governor Hogan’s suggestion that pandemic-induced unemployment has abated is completely out of touch with our industry trends and the pain workers statewide are still experiencing,” said UNITE HERE Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Boardman. “I rely on that extra money to keep a roof over our heads,” said Felicia Gibbs, who worked at Gaylord National Harbor before being laid off in March 2020. “This just sends us scrambling as we waited to hear back from our old jobs. Governor Hogan should reverse this terrible decision.” In a letter to Hogan, Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) and Unemployment Insurance Oversight Committee co-chairwoman Kathy Klausmeier (D-Baltimore County) wrote, “Solving problems requires more than buying into partisan narratives that ignore the very real plight of countless Marylanders facing complex futures,” reported Maryland Matters.

Solidarity Center Report: Survey Shows Cambodia Workers Struggling to Survive in COVID-19
Half or more workers in Cambodian garment factories and the tourism industry were suspended for three or four months, and most were unable to support themselves on government aid during the pandemic, according to a new study that put hard data to the suffering of the country’s low-wage workers.The Center for Policy Studies conducted the study, which reports results from July and August 2020, with Solidarity Center and The Asia Foundation. Read more at Solidarity Center.

A staunch advocate for federal and D.C. government employees who spent nineteen years as an AFGE staffer educating government workers on the importance of legislative and political engagement, Legislative and Political Organizer (LPO) Fred McDuff has passed. “Fred will truly be missed. He was the epitome of a true unionist,” said AFGE National President Everett Kelley. In addition to his role of supporting and advocating for government workers, Fred also served as a union steward for the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 2, a bargaining unit covering more than 100 AFGE staffers. As a union steward, Fred was eager to represent the perspective of field employees within the federation and was ready to fulfill another term as a steward, following a term he served a few years prior. .

In Memoriam: AFGE Staffer and Activist Fred McDuff
Read more here

Today's Labor Quote: Doran Brown

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The 1913 Dublin Lock-out. Last week’s show: Shootout in Matewan; General strike in KC

International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded – 1900

A Federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, was declared unconstitutional – 1918

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