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AFSCME MD slams Hogan for withholding COLA

Labor rallies to "Stop the Postal Sell-off"

Today's Labor Quote: William Spriggs

Today's Labor History

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AFSCME MD slams Hogan for withholding COLA
"The Hogan Administration is continuing its' childish games," [link removed] says AFSCME MD. The Administration "has chosen to try and punish AFSCME bargaining units by trying to deny them their rightful 1% wage increase, due January 2020," said the union. The Hogan Administration's move is "vindictive and childish," AFSCME MD added, suggesting instead that "They should be spending time trying to figure out solutions to the staffing crisis, and how to continue to provide great services to Maryland residents." A [link removed] rally is planned for January 14.
photo courtesy Pamela Wood/Baltimore Sun

Labor rallies to "Stop the Postal Sell-off"
The public service mission of the Postal Service has made it the most popular federal agency. However, warned the AFL-CIO last week, "this public good is at risk if we don't all act soon." In June 2018 the White House announced proposals to privatize the Postal Service. Now Postmaster General Megan Brennan has announced her departure later this month. The Postmaster General has wide powers to shape the mission of the Postal Service and the AFL-CIO warns that "there is a real risk that Brennan's successor could hand over parts of the service to private, profit-making corporations and prepare it for a wholesale sell-off." You can add your voice and protect the public Postal Service by [link removed] signing the petition to Stop the Postal Sell-off.

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Today's Labor Quote: William Spriggs
"One problem is not the availability of work but the type of work. Today, we almost have as many fast food workers as manufacturing workers in the United States. Until states set a living wage of $15 an hour, states will just end up subsidizing their working poor."
Spriggs is the AFL-CIO's Chief Economist

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: A very unusual strike
On today's show, originally released January 6, 2019, we talk with historian Erik Loomis about frustrated workers in a very unusual place who decided to strike in a very unusual way.
Last week's show: (12/29): [link removed] 100 years of the ILO

January 6
The Toronto Trades and Labour Council endorses the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and women - 1882

8,000 workers strike at Youngstown Sheet & Tube. The following day the strikers' wives and other family members join in the protest. Company guards use tear gas bombs and fire into the crowd; three strikers are killed, 25 wounded - 1916

January 7
An explosion at Osage Coal and Mining Company's Mine Number 11 near Krebs, Okla. kills 100, injures 150 when an untrained worker accidentally sets off a stash of explosives - 1892

Wobblie Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin - 1939

The presidents of 12 of the nation's largest unions meet and call for reuniting the American labor movement, which split into two factions in 2005 when when seven unions left the AFL-CIO and formed a rival federation. The meeting followed signals from President-elect Barack Obama that he would prefer dealing with a united movement, rather than a fractured one that often had two competing voices. Unions from both sides of the split participated in the meeting. The reunification effort failed - 2009

- David Prosten; graphic: "Demonstration," by Ben Shahn, 1933; Shahn was [link removed] moved in the early 1930s to paint a series of works based on the infamous Tom Mooney case.

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