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Starbucks solidarity brewing up hot and strong

Expanding access to DC's Paid Family Leave

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Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, February 17, 7pm - 9pm
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Agenda includes: Organizing updates (Politics & Prose; Union Kitchen; Starbucks; Loudoun Transit; Capital One Hall); Public employee collective bargaining update; General Assembly update; Building Trades Diversity Initiatives and Pre-apprenticeship training.

 

Starbucks solidarity brewing up hot and strong

There are now six Richmond Starbucks stores that are unionizing with Workers United/SEIU, reports NoVA Labor's Ginny Diamond. The campaign has now spread to 87 stores in 25 states; [link removed] click here for a Solidarity Tool Kit for tips and tools to support your local organizing effort. "When in Richmond, please visit them and order a `Union Yes' drink," she urges. "Take a selfie and post it." Follow @sbworkersunited on social media. The stores are Carytown (3555 West Cary St, Richmond), Huguenot Village (2059 Huguenot Road, N. Chesterfield), Westchester Commons (15605 WC Commons Way, Midlothian), N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard and Myers (1017 N Boulevard, Richmond), Forest Hill & Cherokee (6980 Forest Hill Ave, Richmond), Midlo & Carmia Way (11136 Midlothian Tpke, North Chesterfield). "And if you are in Roanoke, visit the Bridges store that is also unionizing," Diamond adds.

Plus: [link removed] A Rhodes Scholar barista and the fight to unionize Starbucks.

Expanding access to DC's Paid Family Leave

The DC Paid Leave Campaign yesterday announced its strong support for the "Universal Paid Leave Portability Amendment Act," which would expand access to DC's Paid Family Leave program for working families who have already earned paid leave, but who are in between jobs when they need to access that leave. Laura Brown, Executive Director of the First Shift Justice Project said the bill "will close a gaping hole in the safety net for DC's working families." Yael Shafritz, Interim Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice, added that "Paid family and medical leave is a vital benefit for so many workers across the District, but the pandemic has shown gaps in the policy -- leaving many unprotected in the middle of a public health emergency." Introduced by Councilmember Elissa Silverman, the bill is cosponsored by Councilmembers Henderson, Robert White, Nadeau, Pinto, Cheh, George, Allen, and Trayon White.


Today's Labor Quote: Dyana Forester

"This is a question of basic rights and dignity for workers -- and racial and gender justice,"

Forester, president of the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO, referring to the "Universal Paid Leave Portability Amendment Act." (see above)

 

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The Irish Immigrant Miners' Memorial. Last week's episode: [link removed] City Workers Strike Songhttps://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-y6jpa-1192676 .


February 16
Leonora O'Reilly was born in New York. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she began working in a factory at 11, joined the Knights of Labor at 16, and was a volunteer investigator of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. She was a founding member of the Woman's Trade Union League - 1870

Diamond Mine disaster in Braidwood, Ill. The coal mine was on a marshy tract of land with no natural drainage. Snow melted and forced a collapse on the east side of the mine, killing 74 - 1883

Beginning of a 17-week general strike of 12,000 New York furriers, in which Jewish workers formed a coalition with Greek and African American workers and became the first union to win a five-day, 40-hour week - 1926

Rubber Workers begin sit-down strike at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. - 1936 (photo above)

February 17

63 sit-down strikers, demanding recognition of their union, are tear gassed and driven from two Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plants in Chicago. Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court declared sit-down strikes illegal. The tactic had been a major industrial union organizing tool - 1937

Unions at Yale University strike in solidarity with teaching assistants - 1992

- David Prosten.

 

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