DC Labor FilmFest: LAST WEEKEND!
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

Workers protest Gov Hogan's decision to stop Federal UI Programs in Maryland: Fri, June 4, 10:30am – 11:30am
Baltimore Convention Center (Sharp and Pratt Streets)

Coalition to Repeal Right to Work: Fri, June 4, 7pm – 9pm
Coalition of 50 organizations seeking to rebuild the middle class by empowering workers to organize unions and bargain collectively.

UFCW Local 27 Hosts Mass Vaccination Site for Delaware Residents Aged 12+: Sat, June 5, 9am – 12pm
UFCW Local 27 office, 3 Mason Dr, Selbyville, DE 19975

Democratic Socialists of America Labor Speaker Series: AFSCME 1072 at UMD: Mon, June 7, 7pm – 8pm
This event will feature members of AFSCME Local 1072 at the University of Maryland who have been fighting hard for hazard pay and better work arrangements, and a whole lot else! Come here how you can support this labor struggle in our region. RSVP here!

Union City will be on hiatus through June 21; follow us on Twitter and Facebook for breaking news.

Labor News Headlines

Largest Federal Workers Union Praises Biden Admin Move to Expand Union Rights, Increase Pay for TSA workers

National Zoo has reopened, but its police union wants it closed again

Labor On The Move: Louis Davis new 32BJ SEIU District Leader/Chair
Louis Davis is the new District Leader/Chair for the Capital Area District of SEIU Local 32BJ. “I could go on and on about how the labor movement has changed my life over the past decade,” he said in a Facebook post. “I could wax poetically about the support from my family and tribe. I could talk about personal growth from being in the labor struggle with our membership. But I’ll save all of that for another time. I owe a HUGE thank you to our retiring District Leader Maria H Naranjo for not only being intentional about staff development but for creating space. Words cannot express the gratitude I have for her as a labor leader.”

YRAW: Class, country music and social change
Missed this week’s Your Rights At Work (YRAW) radio show? Catch the podcast here. This week's show: MD Dems and labor leaders are denouncing Governor Hogan’s efforts to end supplemental unemployment insurance payments; we hear from UNITE HERE 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John Boardman…Then we get a report from Will Attig, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council on how veterans joined the picket line at the Mineworker’s Warrior Met strike last week. And we discuss class, country music and social change with Tim Fowler, Professor in the Sociology department at Brock University, who teaches a class on how these all connect.

Today's Labor Quote: Felicia Gibbs

“I rely on that extra money to keep a roof over our heads.”

Gibbs, a UNITE HERE Local 25 member who worked at Gaylord National Harbor before being laid off in March 2020, has been receiving supplemental unemployment benefits, which MD governor Hogan says he's cutting off.

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

June 3
International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded – 1900 |

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

June 4
Massachusetts becomes the first state to establish a minimum wage - 1912

The House of Representatives approves the Taft-Hartley Act. The legislation allows the President of the United States to intervene in labor disputes.
President Truman vetoed the law but was overridden by Congress - 1947

The AFL-CIO opens its new headquarters building, in view of the White House - 1956

Gov. Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. The legislation came after years of effort by the United Farm Workers union - 1975

June 5
“If we feel if something is unjust, then workers should have the right not to support the situation or provide their services.”

Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to form Teamsters for a Democratic Union - 1976

- David Prosten

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