TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for complete and latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, May 18, 8:15am – 9:15am Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria, VA Delivering for America: Opportunities and Challenges for the Postal Service in the Digital Age: Wed, May 18, 12pm – 1pm Register here
Film: THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS (DC LaborFest): Wed, May 18, 12:45pm – 2:45pm AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Tickets
Book: THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING (DC LaborFest): Wed, May 18, 6pm – 8pm Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009 Sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute. FREE; RSVP HERE
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, May 19, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. Guests: Bill Fletcher on the Buffalo shootings; Peter Dreier on Major League Rebels & Baseball Rebels.
Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, May 19, 7pm – 9pm Email for call-in details: [email protected] NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, May 19, 7pm – 9pm
Special guest speaker labor journalist Steven Greenhouse will discuss this moment in the labor movement. Other speakers include President Robert Young (IAFF 2068); Niki Zimmerman (Fairfax County NAACP); Frank Barille (IUOE 99). NoVA Labor meetings are open to all friends of labor. |
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Buffalo attack underlines urgency of June 18 D.C. rally
In the wake of last Saturday’s racist attack in Buffalo, the upcoming June 18 Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington is taking on a new urgency. Organized by the Poor People’s Campaign, the event is intended to be “a generationally-transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies to say that this system is killing ALL of us and we can’t…we won’t…we refuse to be silent anymore.” The AFL-CIO and the Metro Washington Labor Council, which are supporting the Assembly and March, are urging the local labor movement to turn out in support; click here now to RSVP (as either a union or individual). “We Assemble and March on June 18, 2022 because any nation that ignores nearly half of its citizens is in a moral, economic and political crisis,” says the PPC.
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IATSE 22 organizes Shakespeare Theatre
The production workers of the Shakespeare Theatre Company on Tuesday filed with the NLRB for representation by IATSE Local 22. Local 22 represents stagehands, audio-visual technicians, and projectionists in the greater Washington, DC area, including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. After spotting the workers gathered outside the theatre, Illinois Congressman Bill Foster, co-founder of ETC, one of the largest theatrical lighting equipment manufacturers in the country, stopped by for a supportive chat and photo.
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UFCW 1994 mourns Sidney Kramer’s passing
UFCW 1994/MCGEO yesterday mourned the passing of former Montgomery County Executive Sidney Kramer. He passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday night at the age of 96. “As a county executive, Mr. Kramer negotiated the first-ever collective bargaining agreement with Local 1994 in 1986 after the County charter was amended to allow for our collective bargaining rights,” Local 1994 President Gino Renne said. “He was a fierce advocate on behalf of all working people in Montgomery County, and he was especially good to Local 1994 members and our families, a legacy that continues through his son's (Maryland State Senator Ben Kramer) unfailing diligence in service to the people of Montgomery County. We were lucky to have known Sidney, and I was particularly lucky to call him a true friend.”
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Labor Night at the Nats tix going, going, not yet gone
Over 700 tickets have already been sold for the upcoming 2022 Labor Night at the Nats. ATU Local 689 is leading the way, with 500 tickets, along with SEIU Local 722, the American Postal Workers Union, and LiUNA Local 572. The Nats will play the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday, June 10 (gametime 7:05p); tickets are $17 each and the Community Services Agency gets $2 for each ticket. Click here to hit a home run for CSA’s Emergency Assistance Fund, or for group sales, call Josh Grohs at 202-640-7714 or email [email protected]
photo: At the 2014 Labor Night at the Nats, then-Secretary of Labor Tom Perez talks with Linda Bridges, who's now president of OPEIU Local 2. Photo courtesy Kathleen McKirchy. |
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Labor Quote: Naomi Klein
who calls “The Privatization of Everything,” by Allen Mikaelian and Donald Cohen (who speaks at Busboys and Poets tonight at 6):
“An essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons.” |
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Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Blood, guts, and organizing; Last week's show: The Haymarket Martyrs Monument: Past, Present, Future.
May 18
Amalgamated Meat Cutters union organizers launch a campaign in the nation’s packinghouses, an effort that was to bring representation to 100,000 workers over the following two years – 1917
Atlanta transit workers, objecting to a new city requirement that they be fingerprinted as part of the employment process, go on strike. They relented and returned to work six months later – 1950
Oklahoma jury finds for the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood, orders Kerr-McGee Nuclear Co. to pay $505,000 in actual damages, $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination – 1979
May 19
Shootout in Matewan, W. Va. between striking union miners (led by Police Chief Sid Hatfield) and coal company agents. Ten died, including seven agents – 1920
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formed by the Congress of Industrial Organizations, formally becomes the United Steelworkers of America – 1942
31 dockworkers are killed, 350 workers and others are injured when four barges carrying 467 tons of ammunition blow up at South Amboy, New Jersey. They were loading mines that had been deemed unsafe by the Army and were being shipped to the Asian market for sale – 1950
- David Prosten.
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Hiring Hall: DC-area union jobs, plus click here for more listings! |
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Administrative
Bookkeeper, AFSCME Council 20, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/13/2022) District of Columbia
Administrative Technician – Administration Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/13/2022) District of Columbia
Communications
Website Administrator, NATCA, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/10/2022) District of Columbia
Art and Design Administrator, NATCA, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/10/2022) District of Columbia
Legal
Legal Assistant, Sierra Club (SEA – UAW affiliate, Progressive Workers Union), based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/10/2022) District of Columbia
Misc
Meetings and Events Manager, UFCW, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/13/2022) District of Columbia
Community & Civic Engagement Associate, LCV, location is flexible within the United States (Posted: 5/12/2022) District of Columbia
Senior Local Strength Coordinator, Together We Rise, SEIU, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/16/2022) District of Columbia
Commercial Banker – Union Sector, Amalgamated Bank, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/12/2022) District of Columbia
Consultant – First Contracts, OPEIU, based in the Washington, DC area (Posted: 5/13/2022) Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
Campaign Director – Stop Corporate State Interference, PowerSwitch Action, ideally located where one of PowerSwitch Action’s 20 affiliates is located (Posted: 5/12/2022)
Campaign Manager – Worker Power & Corporate Accountability, PowerSwitch Action, ideally located where one of PowerSwitch Action’s 20 affiliates is located (Posted: 5/12/2022)
Strategic Campaigner II, CJNRC (Climate Jobs National Resource Center), this is a REMOTE position (CJNRC is based in New York) (Posted: 5/13/2022)
Staff Representative, OPEIU 2, based out of Silver Spring, MD (Posted: 5/10/2022) District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia
Director of Human Rights, Education, and Health & Safety, CWA, based out of Washington DC Headquarters (Temporarily Remote: Position will work remotely) (Posted: 5/13/2022) District of Columbia
Public Affairs Administrator, NATCA, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 5/10/2022) District of Columbia
Organizing
Organizing Specialist, VEA, based in Fairfax, VA (Posted: 5/11/2022) Virginia
Organizing Positions, SEIU (Local 32BJ), based in the Richmond, VA area (Posted: 5/10/2022) Virginia
CWA Senior Campaign Lead – Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA), CWA, National search (may be worked remotely) (Posted: 5/12/2022) District of Columbia (National search)
Research
Campaign Researcher, UNITE HERE (Local 25), based in Washington, DC and Virginia (Posted: 5/12/2022) District of Columbia, Virginia
Senior Strategic Research Associate – Capital Strategies, CWA, based in Washington, DC (Temporarily Remote) (Posted: 5/16/2022) District of Columbia |
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