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.
Women Workers Organizing: Transforming the Gig Economy through Collective Action: Tue, March 7, 8am – 10am
Register Here
Airport Workers are Sick of Waiting! Tue, March 7, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
DCA Airport, Terminal 2 Departures Level North End Terrace (map)
Airport workers need healthcare and sick days now! Demand that MWAA enact a policy ensuring airport contractors provide baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, wheelchair attendants and other airport workers with a more livable wage, paid sick leave, and employer-paid health insurance.
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2023 Evening With Labor recap; photo album links
Hundreds of metro-area labor activists, leaders and allies celebrated the 44th annual Evening with Labor last Friday night, paying tribute to the award-winners (see list below) and honoring the rank-and-file union members who fuel the local labor movement’s achievements and victories. CLICK HERE for a photo album from the awards ceremony.
JC TURNER AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRADE UNIONIST OF THE YEAR: Raymond Jackson, ATU 689 COPE AWARDS: Kayla Mock, UFCW Local 400; Samuel Epps, UNITE HERE Local 25; 1199 SEIU Healthcare Workers 2022 Member-to-Member Program; ATU 689. 2022 Member to Member Program; AFSCME District Council 3. 2022 Member to Member Program THOMAS M. BRADLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES AWARD: Ottis Johnson Jr., AFGE District 14
ORGANIZING AWARD: OPEIU 2, IATSE 22, UFCW 400 JOSLYN N. WILLIAMS VANGUARD AWARD: Chuck Clay, IATSE 22; John Boardman, UNITE HERE 25 OUTSTANDING ALLY AWARD: Prince George’s County Educators' Association.
CLICK HERE to check out the 2023 Evening with Labor photobooth.
photo: JC Turner Award-winner Raymond Jackson with MWC president Dyana Forester; photo by Yusef Jones |
HMS Host workers ratify 1st contract
HMS Host workers at DCA National Airport ratified their first contract last week. “We won respect from management, job security, seniority rights & more. The best part is, after years of low pay, now no one will make less than $17, with good raises every year,” tweeted UNITE HERE 23. “We did it!!!” |
Labor Photo: AFSCME higher at Bowie State
“The AFSCME higher education bargaining team at Bowie State University yesterday bargaining for our first unified contract for the University System of Maryland!”
AFSCME Maryland tweet |
Labor Quote: Joe Hill
Joe Hill’s song “There Is Power In A Union” appeared on this date in 1913 in the “Little Red Song Book,” published by the Wobblies. Sung here by Folk Hogan. |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Tractor Princess. Last week’s show: Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary.
President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to halt the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America. The order was ignored and Carter did little to enforce it. A settlement was reached in late March – 1978
With the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and were attacked by mounted police - 1930
The Knights of Labor picket to protest the practices of the Southwestern Railroad system, and the company's chief, high-flying Wall Street financier Jay Gould. Some 9,000 workers walked off the job, halting service on 5,000 miles of track. The workers held out for two months, many suffering from hunger, before they finally returned to work – 1886
David Prosten
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