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Congressional workers' right to organize supported in Congress

Picturing AFSCME at work

NABET-CWA members bring Super Bowl LVI to millions of viewers

Solidarity Center Report: Haitian Unions Demand Minimum Wage Boost & Court Affirms Right to Strike in Americas

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Congressional workers' right to organize supported in Congress

Michigan Congressman Andy Levin on Wednesday introduced a resolution [link removed] Recognizing Congressional Workers' Right to Organize, in the wake of the organizing drive announced by the Congressional Workers Union. Congressman Levin, a longtime union organizer, member of the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Labor Caucus, was joined by 130 colleagues. "My colleagues and I are listening to the workers and taking this first, critical step to get done what we should have decades ago," [link removed] said Levin, "recognize congressional workers' right to organize without fear of retaliation." And while Levin urged his colleagues to push for a vote on the resolution as soon as possible, he also urged members of Congress to recognize a union in their own offices if a majority of their staff says they want one.


Picturing AFSCME at work

"We are close to entering the third year of a deadly pandemic that has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans," says AFSCME. "Through it all, AFSCME members have never quit. We have been on the front lines of this pandemic from the very beginning, treating patients, helping children stay safe and doing a thousand different jobs to keep our communities running in difficult circumstances. We want to honor your story of service during the pandemic." [link removed] Visit the AFSCME in Action page today and upload a photo of yourself on the job working for your community. "Make no mistake," says AFSCME. "The sacrifice and dedication of AFSCME members like you have kept our country afloat throughout this incredibly difficult time. Please take the time to share an image of yourself on the job so we can honor your service."


NABET-CWA members bring Super Bowl LVI to millions of viewers

NABET-CWA members are on the ground in Los Angeles this week preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl broadcast. Approximately 150 members will be involved in the television production of game-day coverage, and another 150 members will be working at the Super Bowl producing coverage for other NBC Shows: Football Night in America, NBC News, Telemundo programming, and more. "The crew is one of the premier technical crews in television sports broadcasting and will be operating more than 100 cameras, lighting, sound, instant replay, and graphics," says CWA. "These talented and hardworking NABET-CWA crew members play an instrumental role in broadcasting the big game for football fans everywhere." photo: NABET-CWA crew members ready for Super Bowl LVI.


Solidarity Center Report: Haitian Unions Demand Minimum Wage Boost & Court Affirms Right to Strike in Americas

In Haiti, workers are pressing the government to raise the minimum wage as rising prices of food, transportation and other basics mean they need three to four times their current wages to survive. And in an historic ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights affirmed workers' right to strike. [link removed] Find out more at Solidarity Center.

Today's labor quote: Andy Levin (D., MI)

"We cannot stop fighting until every worker in the country can form a union, without interference, including our own employees, right here in the Congress of the United States."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] City Workers Strike Song. Last week's episode: [link removed] "America Works" launches new season.

February 11
500 Japanese and 200 Mexican laborers unite to fight the labor contractor responsible for hiring at the American Beet Sugar Co. in Oxnard, Calif. They ultimately win higher wages and the right to shop at stores not owned by the company - 1903

Fifteen thousand rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio, protesting speed-up - 1913

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones is arrested while leading a protest of conditions in West Virginia mines. She was 75 years old at the time - 1913
The Seattle General Strike ends after six days. Some 65,000 workers struck for higher pay after two years of World War I wage controls - 1919

Some 1,300 sanitation workers begin what is to become a 64-day strike in Memphis, ultimately win union recognition and wage increases. The April 4 assassination in Memphis of Martin Luther King Jr., who had been taking an active role in mass meetings and street actions, brought pressure on the city to settle the strike - 1968

February 12
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass born into slavery near Easton, MD - 1818

John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America and founding president of the CIO, born near Lucas, IA - 1880

February 13

A national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ends in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars--the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States - 1865

Some 12,000 Hollywood writers returned to work today following a largely-successful three-month strike against television and motion picture studios.
They won compensation for their TV and movie work that gets streamed on the Internet - 2008

- David Prosten

 

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