Today’s Labor Calendar
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Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM
2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.
Transcending and thriving: Civil rights in Black America: Mon, February 13, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Online only
NoVA Labor Airport Union Caucus meeting: Mon, February 13, 5pm – 6pm
SEIU 32bj, 8618 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 308, Vienna, VA (map)
Arts Union Caucus: Tue, February 14, 3pm – 4pm
Meeting for unions representing broadcast and performing arts.
Rally for Loudoun County Transit Workers (ATU 689): Tue, February 14, 5pm – 6pm (rescheduled from 12 noon; note new location)
Loudoun County Government Center at 1 Harrison St SE in Leesburg VA (map) |
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Union Kitchen workers win $25K in unionbusting case
Union Kitchen has agreed to pay nearly $25,000 to five workers who were fired or faced discipline in retaliation for their participation in a union drive. While UFCW Local 400 communications director Jonathan Williams told dcist.com the union was “very pleased” with the settlement agreement and said the group, United Kitchen Workers, was looking ahead to contract negotiations, he said the firings and discipline had a “chilling effect” on workers exercising their right to organize. “There’s absolutely no need for this — absolutely no need to retaliate against employees and make them go through a very long process to get justice, only to end up right back where you started negotiating a contract with a unionized workforce,” Williams said. The NLRB settlement also requires Union Kitchen management to post a notice of workers’ unionization rights in prominent places in their workplaces, email the notice to workers, and to read it aloud in a meeting.
photo: United Kitchen Workers in Charleston, SC where Union Kitchen owner Cullen Gilchrist was delivering the keynote speech at the "Good Business Summit", the workers joined Charleston community members in letting attendees know union-busting isn't "good business." |
GW Hospital nurses organize
Registered nurses at The George Washington University Hospital on Friday announced they’re organizing with the District of Columbia Nurses Association (DCNA). “Quality patient care and nurse retention are at the forefront of this decision,” the nurses said in a statement. “Unfortunately, repeated attempts to work personally and directly with hospital leadership have failed to yield lasting systemic improvements.” The nurses added that “we hope hospital administration will welcome this union as an opportunity to form a more constructive partnership with staff.”
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Labor Quote: Jeslyn Zakes
“Young people are just really feeling like the future is a bit bleak, and I think that we have a shared experience of just kind of being, you know, upset with the state of the country and being generally anti-capitalist.”
Zakes is one of the organizers of the Freshfarm Workers Union; hear her on last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show. |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Domestic worker, Mother of the Movement. Last week’s show: Reconciling a Slaveholding Past.
A national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ends in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars—the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States - 1865
Some 12,000 Hollywood writers returned to work today following a largely-successful three-month strike against television and motion picture studios. They won compensation for their TV and movie work that gets streamed on the Internet - 2008
David Prosten
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