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Metro Washington Council Delegate meeting: Tue, November 23, 5pm – 7pm
RSVP here
Wednesdays with Warner #36: Wed, November 24, 8:15am – 9:15am
Windmill Hills Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria
Join us for the 36th weekly gathering to ask Senator Warner to sign on to the PRO Act. The PRO Act would give workers the right to join unions and would eliminate the Jim Crow-era "right to work" laws. If you want to understand how corporations like Amazon and Starbucks prevent workers from unionizing, check out
John Oliver's excellent explanation.
MWC/CSA/CAP Offices Closes for Holiday: Wed, November 24, 12pm; offices closed Thu/Fri November 25/26 |
Children’s School Services Techs OK 3-year contract
“We have completed our first contract for the Children’s School Services Techs in the DC Public Schools,” reports Metropolitan District 1199DC
Executive Director Wanda Shelton-Martin. “Our members ratified a three-year contract to include 9.25% increases over the three years and a ratification bonus.” Shelton-Martin also thanked DCNA’s Robin Burns “for suggesting that the workers may be interested in joining (1199DC). Way to go with solidarity.” |
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More EWL photos posted
More photos from the November 12 MWC Evening with Labor have been posted here, including from the program and awards, and the reception. The original EWL photo album is posted here, the livestream is here and you can download the program book here. photo: Barbara Jackson, longtime Local AFGE 3615 (SSA) member and AFGE District 14 Retiree Member Coordinator at the 43rd Evening with Labor; photo by photos by Yusef Jones (IATSE 22). |
Strikesgiving solidarity opportunities Starbucks Workers United Whistleblower:
Starbucks has retaliated against a store manager who blew the whistle on the company's union-busting tactics. Now Brittany Harrison is unemployed and battling Leukemia. Please donate to her GoFundMe page. Mineworkers Met Warrior Strike Fund: Mineworkers have been on strike since April 1st. Mail checks to: UMWA 2021 Strike Aid Fund, P.O. Box 513, Dumfries, VA 22026. photo: at last week's UMWA Met Warrior DC demo; photo by Chris Garlock/Union City Kellogg Workers Strike Fund: Kellogg workers have been on strike since Oct 5th. Mail checks to: BCTGM Local 3G Strike Fund, 1006 N. Raymond Road, Battle Creek, MI. 49014. |
Solidarity Center Report: Workers Make Gains in Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka
A union representing garment workers in Sri Lanka negotiated the first-ever collective agreement with a factory in the country’s largest free trade zone, a landmark achievement union activists say sends an important message to all those who work in the garment industry: Collective bargaining power and worker rights can be won even in the garment sector. And, in a win for gender and pay equity in Kazakhstan, the country abolished a list of jobs from which women have been legally barred since 1932.
Find out more at Solidarity Center. |
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Today’s labor quote: John L. Lewis
"Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born." |
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| This week’s Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: Murder, Race and (In)Justice. Last week's show: Tom Morello holds the line.
History’s first recorded (on papyrus) strike, by Egyptians working on public works projects for King Ramses III in the Valley of the Kings. They were protesting having gone 20 days without pay -- portions of grain -- and put their tools down. Exact date estimated, described as within “the sixth month of the 29th year” of Ramses’ reign -- 1170BC -- in The Spirit of Ancient Egypt, by Ana Ruiz. Scholar John Rome adds in Ancient Lives: The story of the Pharaoh’s Tombmakers that the strike so terrified the authorities they gave in and raised wages. Romer believes it happened few years earlier, on Nov. 14, 1152 BC.
Troops were dispatched to Cripple Creek, Colo. to control rioting by striking coal miners - 1903
Mine Workers President John L. Lewis walks away from the American Federation of Labor to lead the newly-formed Committee for Industrial Organization. The CIO and the unions created under its banner organized six million industrial workers over the following decade - 1935
- David Prosten.
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