“I see 300 people a day; I'm grateful for my healthcare that the union fought for.”
UFCW Local 400 member Lisa Harris is a cashier at Kroger who's featured on the Frontline essential workers: Sharing experiences a year into the pandemic video. This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Hardhat Riot. Last week’s show: We Were There; Pins and Needles; Dust for Blood. Chicago stockyard workers win 8-hour day - 1918 At the height of the Great Depression, 35,000 unemployed march in New York’s Union Square. Police beat many demonstrators, injuring 100 - 1930 The federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act is enacted - 1970 Harry Bridges (below), Australian-born dock union leader, dies at age 88. He helped form and lead the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for 40 years. A Bridges quote: “The most important word in the language of the working class is ‘solidarity’” - 1990. click here for latest listings
Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report Payroll Protection Program: Unions are now eligible! Mon, March 29, 11am – 12pm Airport Union Caucus: Mon, March 29, 2pm – 3pm Meeting for unions representing airline and airport workers at Dulles and DCA. Prince William County Labor Caucus: Mon, March 29, 7pm – 8pm Meeting for union members and community allies in PWC. George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Tue, March 30, 3:30pm – 4:30pm Coalition of GMU professors, students, campus employees, alumni, and contract workers. Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, March 30, 5pm – 6pm Meeting of Loudoun County union members and community allies. Labor Radio Podcast Network livestream PodExtra: Women’s History Month; Long Island migrant labor camps with Dora Cervantes (General Secretary Treasurer of the Machinists Union) and Mark Torres (author, “Long Island Migrant Camps: Dust for Blood,” Teamster, and labor lawyer). The staff at Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) won their union election last Friday, with a super majority of eligible staff voting to join ALDF United, which is part of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), IFPTE Local 70. “We thank everyone inside and outside our organization for their support. We look forward to getting to work on our first union contract,” said the ALDF organizing committee. “Despite ALDF management’s attempts to bust the staff’s union, the employees prevailed in exercising their workplace right to join together in union. This victory highlights the power of strong worker organizing. We are so proud of ALDF United and are excited to support them as they begin negotiating to make ALDF an even better organization,” said NPEU Interim President Katie Barrows. |