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"Time for action," say area supermarket workers

Airline workers to sit-in at National Airport tomorrow

Great need, great time to contribute to CSA

Union-made Thanksgiving

The Dirty Dozen: These 12 Retail Chains Will Open Thanksgiving Day, Putting Profits Over People

Union Voice/Readers Write: ATU strike support

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

LABOR CALENDAR; [link removed] click here for latest listings

Union City Radio: 7:15am M-F; WPFW-FM 89.3

Transdev bus driver picket line (ATU 689): Daily 4:00am - 5:00pm
Gates of the Cinder Bed Road Division, 7901 Cinder Bed Road, Lorton, VA
Show your support for the strike: [link removed] download the sign here, post on Twitter and tag @ATULocal689.
photo: Georgetown YDSA walks ATU picketline last week

Giant & Safeway actions (UFCW 400): Tue, November 26, 11am - 1pm & 4pm - 6 pm
Multiple locations; [link removed] click here for list

Airport workers informational picketing (UNITE HERE 23): Tue, November 26, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Reagan National Airport, American Airlines Terminal C - North Terrace departures level

Union City will be off the rest of this week, returning next Monday, December 2. The Metro Council and CSA offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for the holiday, re-opening next Monday. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

"Time for action," say area supermarket workers
After more than two months of contract negotiations with both Giant and Safeway, UFCW Local 400 reports that "neither company has put an offer on the table that provides us wages we can live on, schedules we can depend on, healthcare we can afford, and a retirement we can count on." Dozens of actions took place yesterday and more are planned for tomorrow, as local shoppers prepare for Thanksgiving on Thursday. See Calendar or click [link removed] here for details.
"We have seen negotiations in New England, California, Oregon, and Washington all extend for months because of the greed of these employers, and unfortunately, that is what we are facing here," Local 400 adds. "They won fair contracts in all of those places by keeping the pressure on over the long haul. And that is what we are going to do here."

Airline workers to sit-in at National Airport tomorrow
On one of the busiest travel days of the year, airline catering workers at Reagan National Airport plan to protest and sit-in tomorrow at 5:30 (see Calendar), calling on American Airlines to "take urgent and necessary steps to ensure that workers who cater its flights are able to escape poverty and access medical care." Wages are as low as $12.15 an hour, just 32% of workers at LSG Sky Chefs at DCA had company healthcare in 2018, and only 10% covered any dependents. Meanwhile, American reported a 2018 annual profit of $1.9 billion. The workers are members of UNITE HERE Local 23; the protest will be the latest in a series of demonstrations by airline catering workers at U.S. airports, including at Dallas-Ft. Worth, where over 50 were arrested in a civil disobedience near American Airlines' headquarters.

Great need, great time to contribute to CSA
The holidays are a time of celebration but they're also a time of great need and thus a good opportunity to support the work of the Community Services Agency through an end-of-year tax deductible contribution. "For close to 30 years CSA has assisted union members during times of hardship and we need your help to continue to provide emergency assistance, holiday assistance and other worker support programs like government shutdown assistance," says CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. [link removed] Click here to safely and securely give online or mail checks payable to the Community Services Agency, 815 16th Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006. "Thank you in advance for supporting local labor's non-profit agency and its services to assist workers and their families," said DuCote. "We appreciate it!"
photo: IUOE 99 Business Manager Don Havard

Union-made Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is just a few days away and if you're looking to shop union for your holiday dinner, here are some handy resources. First - and easiest - shop at local union supermarkets like Giant, Safeway and Shoppers, whose workers are members of UFCW Local 400. There are a few other unionized grocery stores locally; the complete list is on our [link removed] website. To find out whether specific products are union - Butterball turkeys and hams, or Charles Krug wines, for example - we've posted a Union Made Thanksgiving list on our website that you can download and print out. You can also check out the Union Label and Labor 411 apps in the App Store, which include thousands of union products and services. They're also online at [link removed] unionlabel.org and [link removed] labor411.org Buying union-made supports good jobs. America is at its best when we say and shop UNION YES!

The Dirty Dozen: These 12 Retail Chains Will Open Thanksgiving Day, Putting Profits Over People
Thanksgiving is one of the two biggest holidays of the year. For many people, it is a time to spend with family and friends. But a few retail chains want to turn it into another shopping day instead. Saying that "Enough is enough," Labor 411 [link removed] says it will not support any of these chains. "Instead we will vote with our wallets and refuse to shop on this day. And we hope that many Americans choose to do the same." The Dirty Dozen are: Best Buy, Bed Bath and Beyond, DSW, Gamestop, JC Penney, Kmart, Macy's, New York and Company, Old Navy, Sears, Target, Walmart.

Union Voice/Readers Write: ATU strike support
"Thanks for posting the (ATU strike support) sign which I can download and put in the window," writes Joanne Murphy. "Could you also post the flyer, which explains the wage disparity and other issues, so I can re-print and take to co-workers?" [link removed] Click here for links to both.

Today's Labor Quote: George Meany
"Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label."
Meany became president of the American Federation of Labor on this date in 1952.

Today's Labor History
Labor History Today Podcast (11/24): [link removed] FWW&CP, the ILO and Lattimer Redux
Jessica Pauszek on the Federation of Worker Writers And Community Publishers; Mark Anner and Tula Connell on the International Labor Organization, and the Cool Things at the Meany Archives team dig into their files on the Lattimer Massacre of 1897 and discover, not only the names of those killed, but perhaps a personal connection as well.
Last week's show: (11/17): [link removed] Remembering Lattimer, GINA and Newsies

Some 10,000 New Orleans workers, black and white, participate in a solidarity parade of unions comprising the Central Trades and Labor Assembly. The parade was so successful it was repeated the following two years - 1883

Teachers strike in St. Paul, Minn., the first organized walkout by teachers in the country. The month-long "strike for better schools" involving some 1,100 teachers--and principals--led to a number of reforms in the way schools were administered and operated - 1946

1,550 typesetters begin what is to become a victorious 22-month strike against Chicago newspapers - 1947

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