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Union, community unite to help Shoppers Food workers

NABET-CWA members win historic $76M back pay settlement with CNN

DC COPE Update: 2020 endorsement process underway

Today's Labor Quote: Dr. Martin Luther King

Today's Labor History

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Transdev bus driver picket line (ATU 689): Daily 4:00am - 5:00pm
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Union, community unite to help Shoppers Food workers
"We are trying to make something good out of a tragic situation for great folks who work awful hard and don't deserve to be laid off," said UFCW 400 president said Mark Federici Saturday at the Resource Fair organized to help the workers affected by the Shoppers Food [link removed] closings. More than 200 members of Local 400 turned out for the Fair, where the Metro Washington Council's Community Services Agency was one of over 30 agencies providing information on emergency assistance, services, training and jobs. "I spoke with members who have over 20 years of service at the same store! said CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. "We will continue to do everything we can to make sure our members land on their feet," said Federici.
photo: Brenda Blades, Shoppers Food worker and UFCW Local 400 member, completes CSA emergency assistance application

NABET-CWA members win historic $76M back pay settlement with CNN
Members of NABET-CWA Local 31 have won one of the largest back pay settlements in the 84-year history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The settlement negotiated by NABET-CWA, Local 31 and Local 11 (New York) requires CNN America to pay a total of $76 million to hundreds of broadcast technicians who were fired in 2004 when CNN terminated its subcontract with union-represented employees at Team Video Services (TVS). "After more than 15 years, this settlement agreement finally delivers justice for workers who experienced serious hardship in their lives due to CNN's union-busting practices," said NABET-CWA President Charlie Braico. "This incredible settlement in workers' favor should send a very clear message to CNN and to other employers that union-busting is illegal and has consequences."
photo: [link removed] 2018 NABET-CWA Local 31 demo

DC COPE Update: 2020 endorsement process underway
The 2020 endorsement process was the major focus of the January DC Committee on Political Education (COPE) meeting last Thursday. The committee finalized the calendar for the endorsement process and adopted a Medicare for All resolution to be sent to the Executive Board next week for formal adoption. The endorsement process will begin with a 2020 Labor meeting for Metro Council affiliates this Thursday, January 16 at Teamsters Local 639 (3130 Ames Place NE, Washington, DC 20018), from 6:00- 8:00 pm. During that meeting, the committee will gather information about affiliate's political priorities. The committee also plans to hold an education forum for aspiring candidates on Monday, February 3, at the AFL-CIO. For more information on participating in DC COPE's endorsement process, contact David Stephen at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]. The DC COPE meets the second Thursday of every month at 4:00 pm. The next DC COPE meeting will be Thursday, February 13 at the IATSE 22 (1810 Hamlin St NE, Washington, DC 20018).

Today's Labor Quote: Dr. Martin Luther King
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as `right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone... Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped."
Dr. King joins a picket line in support of a strike by the International Chemical Workers Union, Local 754, against discrimination at the Scripto Pen Company, Atlanta, 1964. AFL-CIO Still Images, Photographic Prints Collection.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: UAW's Punch Press strike daily
On today's show, the Cool Things from the Meany Archives crew features The Punch Press, an auto worker strike publication. Also this week, Saul Schniderman remembers contributions to labor history by both Johnny Paycheck and Bruce Springsteen.
Last week's show: (1/5): [link removed] A very unusual strike

January 13
The original Tompkins Square Riot. As unemployed workers demonstrated in New York's Tompkins Square Park, a detachment of mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children with billy clubs. Declared Abram Duryee, the Commissioner of Police: "It was the most glorious sight I ever saw..." - 1874

Chicano citrus workers strike in Covina, CA - 1919

January 14
Pennsylvania Superior Court rules bosses can fire workers for being gay - 1995

Some 14,000 General Electric employees strike for two days to protest the company's mid-contract decision to shift an average of $400 in additional health care co-payments onto each worker - 2003

- David Prosten

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