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Thirty Years of Engagement with FIFA on Human Rights: Mon, November 22, 10:30am – 12:00pm
Hosted by the AFL-CIO and the Sport & Rights Alliance. If you would like to attend, please make sure to register here.
Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, November 23, 5pm – 7pm
RSVP here MWC, CSA & CAP offices closed for the holiday: Wed, November 24, 12 noon, Thu/Fri 11/25-26
Best wishes to all for a safe and joyous holiday! |
Shuler: Build Back Better Act “a milestone for working people”
With Friday’s House passage of the Build Back Better Act, “Generational economic change is in our sights,” said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on Friday. The legislation will knock down the barriers that have prevented many workers, especially women and people of color, from finding high-quality sustainable jobs, she said. “The Build Back Better Act will remake and redefine our economy
. This is a milestone for working people, and now the Senate must finish the job and send the Build Back Better bill to President Biden’s desk without delay.” |
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AFGE members’ fight for dignity on the job changed TSA
Last Friday was the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). To mark the occasion, AFGE is publishing a series about how its members at TSA have fought to win dignity, and how they are still fighting for their rights
on the job. Unlike many other federal government employees, transportation security officers are denied rights under Title 5, preventing them from having access to equal pay, appealing adverse actions to an independent authority and exercising their full collective bargaining rights. But that hasn’t stopped AFGE growing from 13 dues-paying members at TSA in 2003 to nearly 19,000 today, winning a series of landmark arbitrations along the way. Click here to read the first article in the four-part series.
- AFL-CIO Daily Brief |
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Today’s labor quote: Adam Smith
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.” |
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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: Tom Morello holds the line. Last week's show: Communists and community in wartime Detroit.
20,000 female garment workers are on strike in New York; Judge tells arrested pickets: “You are striking against God and nature” - 1909
The district president of the American Federation of Labor and two other white men are shot and killed in Bogalusa, Ala. as they attempt to assist an African-American organizer working to unionize African-American workers at the Great Southern Lumber Co. - 1919
- David Prosten.
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