This is Chris Garlock, with Union City Radio’s Your Rights at Work tip of the day:
You have the right to receive unemployment benefits if you are fired from your job. D.C. workers who are terminated from their job for any reason other than gross misconduct are eligible for weekly payments of unemployment benefits. These benefits can last for up to 26 weeks, at a maximum of $359 per week. Unemployed workers must show that they are able and looking for work in order to continue receiving benefits. Find out more about your rights at work from the Employment Justice Center, at DCEJC.ORG or call 202-828-9675.
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This is Chris Garlock, with Union City Radio’s Your Rights at Work tip of the day:
All workers have the right to refuse to perform work that they believe could create a dangerous situation or that violates federal health, safety, or environmental laws. If you believe there is a safety or health violation in your workplace, you have the right to request an OSHA inspection. Find out more about your rights at work from the Employment Justice Center, at DCEJC.ORG or call 202-828-9675. As part of the 2015 DC LaborFest, the Metro Washington Council, Labor Heritage Foundation and WPFW 89.3 FM co-sponsored a special “Live@5: Labor Sings” series every Friday in May.
Today’s performance is by David Marsh. Click above to hear the whole show. Unionists, Latinos, undocumented workers and their allies this week stepped up their crusade for workplace rights for the undocumented. May 19 should have been a chance for millions to file for legal status but that was put on hold thanks to a federal judge’s injunction in Texas, which the Obama administration is appealing. Instead, the day was marked by marches and demonstrations nationwide for legalization. At a DC press conference on Monday, the labor movement pledged to step up efforts to teach and coach the estimated seven million undocumented workers on how to gather the proper documents and prepare to seek the right to stay in the U.S. “We are going to ensure workers are ready to apply for” -- legal status – “and to fight for it,” said United Food and Commercial Workers Executive Vice President Esther Lopez. “What’s been deferred is our dream” of becoming citizens and contributing to the U.S., said local worker Carlos Castillo. “They’ve been halted because of politics.” Read more on our website at dclabor.org
On today's labor calendar, catch a free noontime screening of The Hand That Feeds at the AFL-CIO as a shy sandwich-maker unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain. And stick around after the screening for an organizing discussion between DC restaurant workers, members of the Employment Justice Center worker committee, and painters fighting for a union contract at a local company. And tonight the great film Two Days, One Night starts a one-week run at the Old Greenbelt Theater at 7:15. Details at dclabor.org, click on calendar. In today's labor history, labor activist Eugene Debs was imprisoned in Woodstock, Illinois in 1895 for his role in the massive Pullman strike. And on this date in 1909, while white locomotive firemen struck the Georgia Railroad, blacks who were hired as replacements were whipped and stoned—not by the union men, but by white citizens outraged that blacks were being hired over whites. The Engineers union threatened to stop work because their members were being affected by the violence. And in 1920, the Civil Service Retirement Act gave federal workers a pension. Today's labor quote is by Eugene Debs: “The strike is a weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend for principle.” Help WPFW collect a $1,000 challenge grant, pledge today and mention Union City Radio and your contribution will go twice as far: call 202-588-9739. This is Chris Garlock, with Union City Radio’s Your Rights at Work tip of the day: All workers have the right to organize a union at their workplace. You also have the right to speak out at your workplace about unjust job conditions on behalf of yourself and others. If you speak out on behalf of your co-workers to challenge something unjust at work and your employer retaliates against you, you can file an “unfair labor practice” charge at the National Labor Relations Board. Find out more about your rights at work from the Employment Justice Center, at DCEJC.ORG or call 202-828-9675. |
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