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SAVE THE DATE: 25th Annual CSA Golf Tourney set for Sept. 12

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[link removed] CLICK HERE to hear or share yesterday's Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM? Office space: designed for whom? Features Chris Biondi, Training Director at the Washington DC Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee talks about apprentices and Plumbers Local 5's April 21 Industry Day and Open House. Plus, Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, author of Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office.


Common Cause workers organize

Last week, a supermajority of workers at Common Cause asked the organization's leadership to voluntarily recognize the Common Cause Staff Union, part of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild (TNG-CWA Local 32035). Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization with 1.5 million members and supporters dedicated to building a strong democracy. The workers plan to advance efforts that have already begun toward a more equitable workplace, a more just pay scale, and strengthened HR procedures.


D.C.'s growing labor movement

[link removed] The new nationwide labor movement that's led workers from large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks to historic union victories has hit Washington, too, [link removed] reports Axios. "We are absolutely feeling the momentum here in D.C.," Metro Washington Labor Council president Dyana Forester said of the wave of union organizing in a statement to Axios. "Right now, we're seeing more local union members across the District stand up, speak out, and go on strike than ever before." Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios


SAVE THE DATE: 25th Annual CSA Golf Tourney set for Sept. 12

The 25th annual Metropolitan Washington Council Community Services Agency's golf tournament will be held on Monday, September 12, 2022 at the Enterprise Golf Course, 2802 Enterprise Road, Mitchellville, MD 20721. Registration begins at 7:00 a.m.
photo: SEIU 722 at the 2019 CSA Golf Tournament; photo by Chris Garlock/Union City

Today's labor quote: A. Philip Randolph

"We are the advanced guard of a massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom."

The civil rights leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, born on this date in 1889.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Big Top Labor: Life and labor in the circus world; Last week's show: [link removed] Michael Honey on Dr, King: "All Labor Has Dignity".


April 15
Teacher unionists gather at the City Club on Plymouth Court in Chicago to form a new national union: the American Federation of Teachers - 1916

Start of ultimately successful six-day strike across New England by what has been described as the first women-led American union, the Telephone Operators Department of IBEW - 1919

The first McDonald's Restaurant opens, in Des Plaines, Ill., setting the stage years later for sociologist Amitai Etzioni to coin the term "McJob." As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, a McJob is "An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector." - 1955

April 16

Employers lock out 25,000 New York City garment workers in a dispute over hiring practices. The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union calls a general strike; after 14 weeks, 60,000 strikers win union recognition and the contractual right to strike - 1916

An estimated 20,000 global justice activists blockade Washington, D.C. meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund - 2000

April 17

In one of the most controversial decisions in the Supreme Court's history, Lochner v. New York, the Court holds that a law limiting working hours for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional; the decision has since been effectively overturned - 1905

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