Airport Union Caucus: Tue, June 7, 2pm – 3pm

Meeting for unions representing airline and airport workers at Dulles and DCANational.

Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, June 8, 8:15am – 9:15am

Windmill Hill Park, 500 S. Lee St., Alexandria. Weekly breakfast vigil asking Sen. Warner to support the PRO Act,so that "gig workers" can legally bargain for benefits and higher pay. 29% earn less than the minimum wage; 30% use food stamps.

Metropolitan Washington Council COPE Fundraiser: Wed, June 8, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

IAMAW Townhouse 423 New Jersey Ave SE, Washington D.C (on the corner of New Jersey and Ivy St)

Dejah Williams [email protected]

A New Day: Workers Organizing for Power in their Unions and the Community! Wed, June 8, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Georgetown University Law Center, McDonough Hall Room 202, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 9, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.

Hosts: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith; JOIN US AT 202-588-0893

Labor Night at the Nats: Fri, June 10, 7:05pm – 11:00pm

$17.00 per ticket/ CSA will receive $2.00 per ticket sold.

Click the link for a home run and purchase tickets. Josh Grohs, Account Executive, Group Sales (o) 202-640-7714 or [email protected]

Metro Washington Council Day of Action: Sat, June 11, 10am – 2pm

1810 Hamlin St NE, Washington, DC 20018

The Metro Washington Council will volunteer with the Zachary Parker Campaign. Sign-up Link
Dejah Desiree: [email protected]

NoVA Labor Night at Leesburg Soccer Game: Sat, June 11, 4pm – 10pm

4 pm Tailgate, 7 pm game

Contact [email protected] for more information.

Labor Canvass for Don Beyer: Sun, June 12, 1pm – 3pm

2201 Whiteoaks Dr, Alexandria, VA 22306

LISTEN to last week's YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK radio show: The Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls is coming up on June 18 and has a lot of labor support; Roz Pelles and David Mott discuss the demand for a living wage, affordable health care, housing and a democracy that guarantees dignity and respect for all. Plus labor news headlines, including Starbucks Is the Country’s Worst Labor Law Violator, Carvana cuts 12% of their workforce over email and Zoom, and CEO-Worker Pay Gap Widens—And Employees Aren’t Happy About It.

Metro Washington Council Day of Action set for June 11
The Metro Washington Council will volunteer with the Zachary Parker campaign on Saturday, June 11th from 10a to 2p, meeting at 1810 Hamlin St NE, Washington, DC 20018. To participate, please fill out the form here. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Dejah Desiree: [email protected]

A New Day labor/community forum this Wednesday
What do the recent organizing successes at Starbucks and Amazon mean for the labor movement? That and other questions will be addressed at the A New Day labor/community forum this Wednesday (see Calendar, above). Pre-registration is required for all attendees. Attendance is in-person or virtually. Presenters include: Kooper Caraway, Pres. So Dakota AFL-CIO, Alana Eichner, Lead Organizer, DC Domestic Workers Alliance, Chris Townsend, Dir. of Organizing (ret) ATU, Sequnely Gray, Organizer DC JwJ and Carol Rosenblatt, Executive Director (Ret.) CLUW.

Labor Night at the Nats this Friday
Over 1,000 area union members will be out in force at Friday’s Labor Night at the Nats. ATU 689 is leading the way with 750 tickets; other unions include SEIU 722, The NewsGuild-CWA, APWU, LiUNA 572, UFCW 400, APWU Nation’s Capital and Southern MD Local and the Congressional Workers Union. The 2022 Labor Night at the Nats is set for this Friday, June 10, when the Nats will play the Milwaukee Brewers. Click here to purchase tickets -- $2 of each ticket benefits CSA’s Emergency Assistance Fund -- or for group sales, call Josh Grohs at 202-640-7714 or email [email protected].

Polish Federation Safeguards Ukrainian Migrant Worker Rights
Unions Helping Refugees, a far-reaching project by Poland’s largest union federation, is providing comprehensive assistance to Ukrainian refugees to ensure they have fundamental rights on the job as they take on new employment in the country. “Trade unions must ensure decent working conditions for all. No matter what passport they have, what color their skin is, where they come from. Migrants must not be exploited,” says Piotr Ostrowski, vice president of the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions (OPZZ), which is spearheading the project. This week, Ukraine unions also won Sweden's Anna Lindh Memorial Fund award for their Trade Union Lifeline project that is providing relief efforts during the war. Read more at Solidarity Center.

Today’s Labor Quote: David Mott

“If you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, get down, get in the middle of this fight because this is the fight you've been waiting for.”

David Mott is helping organize DC-area participation in the June 18 Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls; hear more on last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Detroit Remains: Using historical archeology to connect the past to the present; Last week's show: The Memorial Day Massacre.

June 6

Speculator mine disaster. 164 killed at Butte, Mont. – 1917

A general strike by some 12,000 autoworkers and others in Lansing, Mich. shuts down the city for a month in what was to become known as the city’s “Labor Holiday.” The strike was precipitated by the arrest of nine workers, including the wife of the auto workers local union president: The arrest left three children in the couple’s home unattended - 1937

Labor Party founding convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio – 1996

June 7

Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo., to suppress Western Federation of Miners strike – 1904

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, later to become the United Steel Workers of America, is formed in Pittsburgh - 1936

Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The merger brought together the Retail Clerks International Union and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America - 1979

- David Prosten

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