DC Labor FilmFest PREVIEWS: Tue, April 19, 7pm – 8pm

FREE; RSVP HERE
Sneak preview of the line-up for the 2022 DC Labor FilmFest. coming up in May!

The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era: Wed, April 20, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Plumbers Local 5 Apprenticeship School Industry Day and Open House: Thu, April 21, 10:30am – 4:00pm

5000 Forbes Blvd. in Lanham, MD.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, April 21, 1pm – 2pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.

Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, April 21, 7pm – 9pm
Email for call-in details: [email protected]

NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, April 21, 7pm – 9pm

FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE: RALLY FOR CLIMATE, CARE, JOBS AND JUSTICE: Sat, April 23, 1pm – 4pm

Lafayette Square, Pennsylvania Ave NW &, 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA (map)

CLUW's Union Women in Uniform Fashion Show: Sun, April 24, 2pm – 5pm

Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 689, 2701 Whitney Pl, District Heights, MD 20747, USA (map)

Hosted by Chesapeake Bay Chapter Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
Tickets on sale now: $50 individual. $400 per table. To purchase tickets contact Angel Savoy at [email protected] or 240-551-4978.

CLICK HERE to hear or share last week'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.

Three wins for UNITE HERE 23

via Twitter:

(4/15) $20 minimum wage at Levy Nationals Ballpark! (photo above) Local 23 DC members at Levy Nats have won a new contract with a $20/hr minimum wage! Congratulations!

(4/15) Thank you, @SenWarren for your public support of @unitehere23 cafeteria workers in the Senate!

(4/14) Welcome to the union! New Local 23 members at Guckenheimer Google in Lenoir, North Carolina have ratified their first contract! (photo below)

Ukraine Workers: Wartime Diaries

Workers and unions in Ukraine are gathering and delivering humanitarian aid, assisting refugees with transportation and volunteering to support the homebound and others to survive in a brutal war. And Labour Initiatives, a local non-governmental organization that supplies legal and other assistance to workers and unions, is ensuring their stories are told. Labour Initiatives has launched a video series, dubbed Wartime Labor Diary, featuring interviews with workers that document their often heroic efforts in Kyiv during wartime. Watch them all at the Solidarity Center.

Solidarity Center Podcast: Minimum Wage Boost in Palestine Big Step for Workers

The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) spearheaded a successful campaign for a minimum wage boost, effective in January, that for the first time in years enables workers to earn above poverty-level wages.

“The employers are very greedy. We will not give up the labor rights," says Mohammad Badri, who works in the West Bank at the Palestinian cellular firm, Jawwal, where he heads up the union at the company. "We will protect the rights of our workers.” Badri, a PGFTU leader, describes the campaign on the latest episode of The Solidarity Center Podcast. Listen to the full episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Today’s labor quote: Chris Biondi

“We want everyone to feel welcome regardless of their background. And the thing about our program is that it benefits everybody.”

Chris Biondi is the Training Director at the Washington DC Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship Committee; he was featured on last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Working on Earth Day; Last week's show: Big Top Labor: Life and labor in the circus world.

April 18
West Virginia coal miners strike, defend selves against National Guard – 1912

After a four-week boycott led by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., bus companies in New York City agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics – 1941

April 19
An American domestic terrorist’s bomb destroys the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people, 99 of whom were government employees - 1995

- David Prosten

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