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DC boosts Paid Family Leave for private sector, considers expanding for public sector workers
Union Kitchen "Vote Yes" rally set for Saturday
How the Word is Passed: Elise Bryant & Charlie King in concert
For These Hotel Workers, The Pandemic Recession Still Hasn't Ended
Mark Your Calendar: Labor Nights at the Wizards
Today's Labor Quote
Today's Labor History
 
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Union Kitchen Vote Yes! pep rally: Sat, March 5, 11am - 12pm
Union Kitchen, 1251 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Passing the Word: Elise Bryant & Charlie King in Concert: Sat, March 5, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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If you missed yesterday's Your Rights At Work radio show -- Steven Greenhouse on Two-Faced Anti-Unionism; Dave Zirin on the MLB lockout; Doug Crandell on Twenty-Two Cents an Hour -- [link removed] Catch the podcast here!
DC boosts Paid Family Leave for private sector, considers expanding for public sector workers
At the beginning of Wednesday's DC City Council Committee on Labor and Workforce Development hearing on DC Government Paid Leave, Council Member Elissa Silverman announced plans to expand the DC Paid Family Leave's program for private-sector workers. Beginning July 1, 2022, DC private-sector workers will have up to 12 weeks of paid leave for parental, medical, or family care leave. This major announcement built momentum for Wednesday's committee hearing, which was already scheduled to consider two bills that would expand the public sector paid leave program. Under Council bills B24-615 and B24-53, public sector workers would receive a maximum of 12 weeks of paid leave as well as access to personal medical leave and two weeks of prenatal leave. "Mayor Bowser and the DC City Council have demonstrated that we share the same values and commitment to ensure DC workers can take much-needed time off with pay to care for themselves, their loved ones, and welcome a child into their family," said Metro Washington Labor Council President Dyana Forester in her testimony on Wednesday. [link removed] Read more here.
Union Kitchen "Vote Yes" rally set for Saturday
Union Kitchen workers invite supporters to join them this Saturday for a Vote Yes! Rally (see Calendar). "It will be a pep rally style VOTE YES! as the workers begin to receive their union election ballots in the mail," says UFCW 400 Political Organizer Kayla Mock. In addition to Union Kitchen workers, featured speakers include MWC President Dyana Forester.
photo: Striking Union Kitchen workers last month; photo by Chris Garlock/Union City
How the Word is Passed: Elise Bryant & Charlie King in concert
CLUW President and Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant will be performing in concert this Saturday with folksinger Charlie King. Informed by Clint Smith's recent book, [link removed] How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Bryant and King will present "an evening of song and spoken word recalling how the narrative of slavery and liberation has been celebrated and distorted in American culture. Inspired songs and provocative poetry."
Tickets are [link removed] available here; participants will be emailed a link to the Zoom performance 24 hours before the show.
For These Hotel Workers, The Pandemic Recession Still Hasn't Ended
Laid-off housekeepers and other service workers fear their hotels are using the pandemic to permanently cut costs -- and good union jobs. [link removed] Dave Jamieson reports in HuffPost.
photo: Linda Butler, a Washington, D.C., hotel worker, UNITE HERE 25 member and shop steward. photo by Michael A. McCoy.
Mark Your Calendar: Labor Nights at the Wizards
The first Wizards Labor Night is set for March 29, when the team will play the Chicago Bulls. Ticket prices range from $19 to $175 and the Community Services Agency will receive $5.00 for each ticket sold. [link removed] Click here to order, or, for large groups, contact Grant Mintz at 202-661-5075 or email mailto:
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Today's labor quote: Eugene V. Debs
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives."
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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine. Last week's episode: [link removed] Black labor in Richmond.
March 4
Pres. William Howard Taft signs legislation creating the Department of Labor. Former United Mine Workers Secretary Treasurer William B. Wilson is named to lead the new department - 1913
President Franklin D. Roosevelt names a woman, Frances Perkins, to be Secretary of Labor. Perkins became the first female cabinet member in U.S. history - 1933
UAW workers win sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, forcing General Motors to recognize the union. In the 40-day action, the strikers were protected by 5,000 armed workers circling the Fisher Body plant - 1937
March 5
British soldiers, quartered in the homes of colonists, took the jobs of working people when jobs were scarce. On this date, grievances of ropemakers against the soldiers led to a fight. Soldiers shot down Crispus Attucks, a black colonist, then others, in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Attucks is considered the first casualty in the American Revolution - 1770
March 6
The Knights of Labor picket to protest the practices of the Southwestern Railroad system, and the company's chief, high-flying Wall Street financier Jay Gould. Some 9,000 workers walked off the job, halting service on 5,000 miles of track. The workers held out for two months, many suffering from hunger, before they finally returned to work - 1886
Joe Hill's song "There Is Power In A Union" appears in "Little Red Song Book," published by the Wobblies - 1913 The song is performed above (video) by Folk Hogan in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park, near the site where Utah's state prison once stood and where Hill was executed by a firing squad on Nov. 19, 1915.
President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to halt the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America. The order was ignored and Carter did little to enforce it. A settlement was reached in late March - 1978
- David Prosten
 
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