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Starbucks union campaign perking along in VA

Farmworker Awareness Week: March 25-31

Down to the final buzzer: Wizards Labor Night tomorrow night

2022-25 MWC Board election results

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

 

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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily

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Wizards Labor Night: Tue, March 29, 7pm - 11pm

Wizards' vs Chicago Bulls. [link removed] CLICK HERE to order individual tickets ($19 - $175). The Metro Washington Labor Council's Community Services Agency will receive $5.00 per ticket sold. Group sales: Grant Mintz - 202-661-5075; mailto:[email protected] [email protected]


The Future We Need | Discussing Labor with Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta: Tue, March 29, 7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Airport Worker Rally: Wed, March 30, 11:30am - 12:30pm

Join a Day of Action to Support Living Wages, Paid Time Off, and Health Care for Airport Workers. National Airport (DCA) - Departures Level Courtyard Area

Labor Webinar on Ukraine: Wed, March 30, 8:00pm - 9:30pm

You are invited to participate in this important labor webinar about the Russian invasion of Ukraine to learn more about the crisis and what we in the labor movement can do in response to this crisis. Those who register will be sent a link to the webinar on the day of the event. [link removed] REGISTER HERE.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, March 31, 1pm - 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or [link removed] listen online.

CLUW Women's Online Watch Party: Thu, March 31, 7pm - 9pm

Hosted by the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

Working for Common Good at the Bargaining Table and Beyond: Fri, April 1, 11am - 3pm

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Missed last week's Your Rights At Work WPFW radio show, "Putting the movement in Movement"? [link removed] Catch the podcast here!

Starbucks union campaign perking along in VA

There are currently 12 election petitions and several more campaigns underway in Virginia, joining more than 150 stores nationally. "After CEO Kevin Johnson stepped down last week, Interim CEO Howard Schultz and Board Chair Mellody Hobson doubled down on their anti-union program," reports NoVA Labor's Virginia Diamond. "Workers have had their hours slashed dramatically, threatening their financial survival and undermining their ability to provide customer service. Despite the union-busting, the movement is growing!" Ballots go out on March 29th for the first five of the Richmond stores that are unionizing.


Farmworker Awareness Week: March 25-31

March 25-31 marks Farmworker Awareness Week - a week that culminates on March 31, Cesar Chavez Day. The backbreaking work of planting and harvesting our food is largely performed by immigrants from Latin America for low pay under difficult working conditions. The Catholic Labor Network is part of the National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM), an interfaith coalition standing in solidarity with farmworker organizations such as the UFW, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Today the UFW is seeking reforms in California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act to make it easier for farmworkers to form unions; the FLOC is campaigning for RJ Reynolds to clean up abuses in its tobacco supply chain; and the CIW is calling on Wendy's to source its tomatoes from growers committed to fair labor practices. The CLN and the NFWM continue to support farmworkers in all of these initiatives. [link removed] Read more here.


Down to the final buzzer: Wizards Labor Night tomorrow night

The first-everhttps://offer.fevo.com/wizards-vs-bulls-kryba9z-7896670?fevoUri=wizards-vs-bulls-kryba9z-7896670%2F Wizards Labor Night tomorrow night features the Wizards taking on the arch-rival Chicago Bulls. The MWC's Community Services Agency will receive $5 for each ticket sold.[link removed] CLICK HERE to order individual tickets ($19 - $175); for group sales, contact Grant Mintz: 202-661-5075; mailto:[email protected] [email protected].


2022-25 MWC Board election results

Dyana Forester has been re-elected to serve a second term as president of the Metro Washington Labor Council AFL-CIO, following elections for the 2022-2025 term that were held last week. Forester and the MWC's vice presidents, treasurer, secretary and trustees were unopposed and were elected by acclamation at the Council's March 22 meeting. Seventeen candidates were nominated for the 16 "at large" seats; an online election conducted by ElectionBuddy was held March 22-25 and the 16 nominees receiving the most votes are the winners. The entire 2022-2025 Board will be sworn in at the April 26 Delegate Meeting.


2022-2025 MWC Board

President: Dyana Forester (UFCW 400)

1st Vice President: Robert Hollingsworth (AFSCME Council 20)

2nd Vice President: I. Chuck Clay (IATSE 22)

3rd Vice President: Herbert Harris (BLET Division 482, DCSLB/IBT)

Treasurer: Eric Bunn (AFGE 2725)

Secretary: Lisa Wilsonia Blackwell-Brown (UFCW 1994 MCGEO)

Members: Greg Bowen (ATU 689), Dena Briscoe (Nation's Capital and Southern MD Area Local, APWU), Robin Burns (DCNA), Tom Clark (IBEW 26), Louis Davis (SEIU 32BJ), Bill Davis (Teamsters 639), George Farenthold (OPEIU 277), Daniel Fields (SEIU 722), Stephen Frum (NNU), Donald Havard (IUOE 99), Ottis Johnson (AFGE District 14), Thomas Killeen (SMART 100), Roxana Mejia (Painters DC 51), Jacqueline Pogue-Lyons (WTU 6), Wanda Shelton-Martin (AFSCME NUHHCE 1199DC), Mike Spiller (OPEIU 2).

Trustees: Djawa Hall (SEIU 1199), David Richardson (AFGE 12), Timothy Traylor (ACE-AFSCME Local 2250).

Today's labor quote: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there `is' such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Industrial murder at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory; Last week's show: [link removed] Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver.


March 28
Members of Gas House Workers' Union Local 18799 begin what is to become a four-month recognition strike against the Laclede Gas Light Co. in St. Louis. The union later said the strike was the first ever against a public utility in the U.S. - 1935

Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. Violence during the march persuades him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated - 1968

March 29

Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day - 1852

"Battle of Wall Street," police charge strikers lying down in front of stock exchange doors, 43 arrested - 1948

- David Prosten

 

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