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Maryland State and D.C. AFL-CIO 2020 Maryland General Assembly Legislative Conference: Mon, December 16, 9am - 2pm
IBEW Local 24 union hall, 2701 W. Patapsco Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Brief overview and discussion of major aspects of the 2020 MD General Assembly and broad issues impacting labor.
8:30 am Registration and Meet & Greet
Registration Fee: $40.00 (includes continental breakfast, lunch and materials)
Registration form: (410) 269-1940 or email mailto:[email protected] [email protected]

Metro Washington Council Open House for MWC delegates & affiliates
Mon, December 16, 6pm - 8pm
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Bread and Roses series: Newsies (1992 film): Tue, December 17, 6pm - 8pm
Busboys and Poets, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
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DC Mayor urges Airport Authority to ensure $15/hr

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority to ensure contracted workers at Reagan National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport reach $15 per hour by 2022. On December 18, MWAA board members will hold a vote to determine wages for over 6,000 contracted baggage handlers, wheelchair attendants, lobby agents, skycaps and cabin cleaners among others. "Fighting for a fair, living wage for Washingtonians has been one of my top priorities since taking office," said Bowser in a letter to MWAA. "On July 1, 2020, the minimum wage in Washington, DC will rise to $15 an hour, making our city more equitable for workers and putting more residents on a pathway to the middle class. As the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) meets this month to determine the timeline for higher wages for airport workers, I am hopeful the Board can similarly reach a consensus on raising the wage to $15 an hour by 2022 for all workers and begin to include this higher wage as a contract requirement for all concessionaires." Sixteen Virginia Delegates also sent MWAA a letter recently on behalf of the workers, joining other high-profile supporters, including actor/activist Danny Glover, DNC Chairman and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, Virginia Congressmen Gerry Connolly and Don Beyer, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Register now: MLK Civil and Human Rights Conference
Registration for the 2020 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference is officially open. With a critical election right around the corner, the theme for the 2020 MLK Conference is "Give Us the Ballot," drawn from Dr. King's 1957 voting rights speech delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering in Washington, D.C. [link removed] Click here to register for the MLK Conference. "Decades after Dr. King advocated tirelessly for full access to the voting booth," say organizers, "we are still facing voter disenfranchisement at alarming levels. In the labor movement, we know that ensuring full voting access and a fair count of every ballot is critical."

Today's Labor Quote: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan

"I refused to do a man's job without a man's pay."

O'Sullivan was the first female organizer for the American Federation of Labor.

Today's Labor History
This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Hidden in the Fields
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez on Invisible Agricultural Child Labor in the American Southwest and the Limits of Citizenship, from the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast. Plus Lane Windham on the Willmar 8, who organized the first strike against a bank in U.S. history.
Last week's show: (12/8): [link removed] Collective actions

The National Civic Federation is formed by business and labor leaders, most prominently AFL president Sam Gompers, as a vehicle to resolve conflicts between management and labor. Not all unionists agreed with the alliance. The group turned increasingly conservative and labor withdrew after Gompers' 1924 death - 1900

New York City's Majestic Theater becomes first in the U.S. to employ women ushers - 1902

The Bagel Bakers of America union is continuing a work slowdown at 32 of New York's 34 bagel bakeries in a dispute over health and welfare fund payments and workplace sanitation, the New York Times reports. Coincidentally -- or not -- lox sales were down 30 percent to 50 percent as well. The effect on the cream cheese market was not reported - 1951

Eight female bank tellers in Willmar, Minn. begin the first strike against a bank in U.S. history. At issue: they were paid little more than half what male tellers were paid. The strike ended in moral victory but economic defeat two years later - 1977

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