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Building A Better America State of the Union for Union Members: Fri, March 11, 1pm – 2pm (Online webinar)
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Please join the White House, the Department of Labor, and the AFL-CIO for a special Building A Better America webinar on President Biden’s priorities for American workers. Special guests: Secretary of Labor, Marty J. Walsh and President of the AFL-CIO, Liz Shuler.
Film: "We Were There": Fri, March 11, 7pm – 9pm
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Screening of "We Were There", followed by a chat with writer/composer Bev Grant; Elise Bryant (CLUW president), host.
Bread and Roses Online Tea Party with Hattitide: Sun, March 13, 4pm – 6pm
Hosted by the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
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Howard nurses face Sunday deadline
Some 350 nurses at Howard University Hospital and Adventist Health could walk off the job soon if the hospitals go ahead with a threat to implement their final proposal on Sunday. The hospitals are demanding cuts that the DC Nurses Association (DCNA) say will cost nurses and licensed healthcare professionals up to $4,600 a year. And despite dangerous staffing shortages during the pandemic, DCNA says management refuses to consider safe staffing proposals from the union.
CLICK HERE NOW to sign the petition. Read more here. |
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| DC Comp 1 & 2 get 4-year deal
More than 11,000 employees across DC government won wage increases and other benefits when DC Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a new four-year collective bargaining agreement on Wednesday. Compensation Units 1 and 2 represent 20 local unions and seven labor organizations, supporting DC government career service employees who make up professional technical, administrative, clerical, trade and craft employees, delivering some of the District’s most integral services. CLICK HERE to hear AFSCME Council 20 Executive Director Robert Hollingsworth discuss the deal on yesterday’s Your Rights At Work show on WPFW 89.3FM.
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Groundwork collaborative ratifies first union contract
The members of the Groundwork Collaborative Union have ratified Groundwork’s inaugural collective bargaining agreement. This agreement is the first union contract for employees of Groundwork, who formed a union with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) on April 23, 2020. |
Unions hail passage of Postal Service Reform Act
In a historic moment, the Senate passed the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 on March 8 with a vote of 79-19. The House passed the bill last month with a vote of 342-92. The legislation will now go to President Biden’s desk, where he will sign it into law. The enactment of Postal Reform marks a turning point in the fight to protect and strengthen the people’s public Postal Service, said the American Postal Workers Union. Read more here.
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Today’s labor quote: Bev Grant, “We Were There”
The film "We Were There": screens online tonight at 7pm; CLICK HERE to register. It will be followed by a chat with writer/composer Bev Grant, hosted by CLUW president Elise Bryant.
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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Radicalism of Irish American Women. Last week's episode: Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine.
March 11
Fabled railroad engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones born in southeast Missouri. A member of the Railroad Engineers, he was the sole fatality in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss. on April 29, 1900. His skill and heroics prevented many more deaths – 1863
Transport Workers Union members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry – 1950
March 12
The Lawrence, Mass. "Bread and Roses" textile strike ends when the American Woolen Co. agrees to most of the strikers’ demands; other textile companies quickly followed suit – 1912
Steelworkers approve a settlement with Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. and its CF&I Steel subsidiary, ending the longest labor dispute in the USWA’s history and resulting in more than $100 million in back pay for workers – 2004
March 13
The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel. The newspaper was quoting a typesetter while reporting on replacement workers who had agreed to work for two-thirds of the going rate – 1830
A four-month UAW strike at General Motors ends with a new contract. The strikers were trying to make up for the lack of wage hikes during World War II - 1946
- David Prosten
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