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8/23/2019

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2019 Working While Black Expo: Aug 24 – 25, 2019
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Maryland state workers demand better pay, more staffing

8/23/2019

Dozens of Maryland state workers rallied in Ocean City last Saturday, protesting understaffed and underpaid working conditions throughout government institutions across the state. With their green shirts on and packets of info in hand, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Maryland (AFSCME) Council 3 gathered in the parking lot outside Ocean City's Convention Center, calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to improve conditions. Some say the staffing crisis is a matter of life and death, becoming alarmingly common among many places like correctional facilities and state hospitals. "Tell Governor Hogan to provide us with services, with staffing, and of course, provide state employees with more salary increases," said Flo Jones, AFSCME's Secretary-Treasurer.
- WBOC.com

Solidarity Center Report: Landmark Pact to End Gender Violence at Lesotho Garment Factories

8/23/2019

More than 10,000 garment workers who make jeans and knitwear for US corporations will be covered in a landmark program that will address gender-based violence and harassment in factories in Lesotho, a country in southern Africa. Lesotho-based unions and women’s rights groups, Levi Strauss, The Children's Place and Kontoor (Wrangler and Lee), and international worker rights organizations, including the Solidarity Center, negotiated with the factory owner, Nien Hsing Textiles, to mandate education and awareness trainings for all employees and managers, an independent reporting and monitoring system and remedies for abusive behavior.
Find out more at the Solidarity Center.

Today's Labor Quote: Cesar Chavez

8/23/2019

“Fighting for social justice, it seems to me, is one of the profoundest ways in which man can say yes to man’s dignity, and that really means sacrifices. There is no way on this earth in which you can say yes to a man’s dignity and know that you’re going to be spared some sacrifice.”

The Farm Workers Organizing Committee (later to become the United Farm Workers of America) was granted a charter by the AFL-CIO on August 23, 1966

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