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Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, August 5, 1pm – 2pm
Featuring the latest episode of San Francisco Mime Troupe's Tales of the Resistance radio drama!

NoVA Labor Arts Union Caucus: Thu, August 5, 3pm – 4pm

NOTE: moved to Thursday this month.

Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, August 5, 6pm – 7pm

Meeting of union members and friends of labor in Arlington.

Coalition to Repeal "Right to Work": Fri, August 6, 7pm – 8pm
Coalition of more than 50 organizations that support the right of workers to organize unions.

CLICK HERE to listen to this week’s Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly: Million Dollar Organizer; Speaking of Work; UCOMM Live; FairWork; Council 4 Unplugged; Union Strong; Labour Radio; Art and Labor.

MWC’s Forester joins “Paid Leave For All” bus tour stop at Capitol

Metro Washington Labor Council President Dyana Forester joined the Paid Leave For All’s National Bus Tour during its stop in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Forester joined other speakers on the southwest lawn of the Capitol building to speak on the importance of paid family leave and the journey she and other advocates undertook to get the DC City Council to enact the DC Paid Family Leave Program. “It was a long, hard fight,” said Forester. “And it took a lot of negotiation, hearings, mobilizing, and hard conversations with elected officials to convince them that DC’s workers deserve paid leave.” This week, the DC Council further expanded the DC Paid Family Leave Plan to allow four extra weeks of paid personal sick leave, an overall increase from two to six weeks. “We celebrate this concrete step towards addressing some of the long-standing racial, economic, and health disparities that have only been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Forester. “We hope this campaign victory is encouraging news for the other stops on the Paid Leave for All bus tour and helps build momentum towards paid leave for all at the federal level."

Emergency COVID-19 rental assistance
As the August 15th expiration of the eviction moratorium approaches, here are some resources for renters and landlords. Both groups are eligible to apply for money from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Emergency Rental Assistance program. These funds can help with rent, utility bills and even moving costs. FIND A PROGRAM NEAR YOU. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult for renters and landlords to cover housing costs. The moratorium will expire in Maryland in less than two weeks, and renters are worried about catching up on past-due rent and facing eviction. Fortunately, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has an Emergency Rental Assistance program that may offset some of this financial burden. The funds are being distributed by state and local organizations to their communities. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a tool to find a program in your community. You don’t have to be behind on rent to get assistance. Some programs offer help with future rent. Local programs may also offer help with utility bills and moving costs.
- Letycia Pastrana, Executive Director, MWC Community Services Agency

Today's Labor Quote: Bill Clinton

“Family and medical leave is a matter of pure common sense and a matter of common decency.”

Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which took effect on this date in 1993. The first law signed by President Clinton, it allows many workers time off each year due to serious health conditions or to care for a family member.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Keokuk before the strike. Last week's show: Indigenous Longshoremen & the I.W.W.

Using clubs, police rout 1,500 jobless men who had stormed the plant of the Fruit Growers Express Co. in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, demanding jobs - 1931

During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the National Labor Board to enforce the right of collective bargaining. Ultimately declared illegal by the Supreme Court, it was replaced two years later by the National Labor Relations Board. 1933

- David Prosten

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