TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for complete and latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, February 16, 8:15am – 9:15am
Windmill Hill Park, 500 S. Lee St., Alexandria, VA (map)
D.C. COPE General Body Meeting: Wed, February 16, 10am – 11am
Tri-County COPE General Body Meeting: Wed, February 16, 7pm – 8pm
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, February 16, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Contact [email protected] for the link.
PG/MoCo COPE General Body Meeting: Thu, February 17, 10am – 11am
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, February 17, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
This week’s guests: Saru Jayaraman (One Fair Wage update); Cathy Feingold (Jerry Black Scholarship fund at the TraRon Center); Timothy J. Lombardo (Blue Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics).
Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, February 17, 7pm – 9pm
Email for call-in details: [email protected]
NoVA Labor Monthly Meeting: Thu, February 17, 7pm – 8pm
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. |
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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; 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: A Rhodes Scholar barista and the fight to unionize Starbucks. |
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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.
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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)
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Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Irish Immigrant Miners’ Memorial. Last week's episode: City Workers Strike Song.
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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Hiring Hall: DC-area union jobs, plus click here for more listings! |
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Administrative
Manager, Administration – Administration Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/9/2022) District of Columbia
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Political
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Research
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