That was music by locked-out Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians playing at Tuesday night’s Bread and Roses fundraiser concert at the Takoma Busboys and Poets. Percussionist Brian Prechtl told the packed audience that talks are underway with BSO management and he’s hopeful that a settlement will come soon. Meanwhile, picketing continues today outside the BSO in Baltimore, starting at 8:30 this morning.
Also on today’s labor calendar, tune in at 1 o’clock this afternoon for this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work, when we’ll take your calls and check out the latest labor news. For details and all the latest labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1885, Chinese coal miners were forced out of Black Diamond, Washington. Today’s labor quote is by Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO President, at the Solidarity Day rally held on this date in 1981, when as many as half a million unionists converged on Washington for a massive march and rally protesting Republican policies. Lane Kirkland, who said: “We're here to remind our elected representatives that they were put there to serve, not the faceless marketplace, but the aspirations of real people.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. The 2020 Union Plus Scholarship application is now open and available to current and retired members, their spouses and their dependent children. Visit unionplus.org/scholarship.
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Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. On today's show: Guy White and Jackie Parncutt: UAW strike at GM Brian DeWyngaert: AFGE rally next Tuesday Bob Samet: Case Closed Harold Meyerson: Walmart To Go Union! Exxon To Abandon Fossil Fuels! Jaime Contreras: 10,000 Janitors Start Contract Talks Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Chris Bangert-Drowns. | Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, FIND OUT MORE AT UNIONPLUS.ORG Fifty thousand auto workers walked out on strike Monday against General Motors. Their demands include fair wages, affordable health care, a share of profits, and job security. If you’d like to support the strike, members of UAW Local 239 are picketing GM's transmission plant in White Marsh, Maryland.
If you missed our LaborFest screening of Councilwoman earlier this year, you can catch it on PBS this month. The documentary tracks the story of UNITE HERE member and hotel housekeeper Carmen Castillo from her arrival in the U.S. in the mid-1990s to her 2014 re-election bid to the Providence City Council. On today’s labor calendar, the DC LaborFest is co-presenting tonight’s screening of the film Helmet Heads at the AFI Silver Theatre at 5:30 pm; For details and all the latest labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1999, a 20-month illegal lockout of 2,900 Steelworkers at Kaiser Aluminum plants in three states ended when an arbitrator ordered a new contract. Kaiser was forced to fire scabs and fork over tens of millions of dollars in back pay to union members. Today’s labor quote is by UAW Vice President Terry Dittes, who said: “We stood up for General Motors when they needed us most. Now we are standing together in unity and solidarity for our members, their families and the communities where we work and live." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. The 2020 Union Plus Scholarship application is now open and available to current and retired members, their spouses and their dependent children. Visit unionplus.org/scholarship. (audio) “…It was interesting two years ago when it came up because you’ll hear from unions, “It’s not our job.”
That’s SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle (GAH-BRIELLE) Carteris on the latest edition of the AFL-CIO’s State of the Unions podcast… (audio) This is a legal issue and it’s true: It’s a legal issue, but one of the things we recognized in SAG-AFTRA was that though this is a legal issue it’s illegal to sexually harass. There are laws to help protect people if they report. These are also our members who are in situations that we can actually elevate ourselves to help them, and we wanted to be able to step out a little bit. And it’s hard to step out of that place where you’re kind of protected. You don’t have to do it. But we really do morally have to do it. I think what’s incredible is the people who have gotten involved to support us through this. The members are really engaged, and now it’s just knowing that it never ends. We’re just going to keep working and working to reach out, to change the language in contracts to protect our members on-set and off-set. That was a big thing. We don’t have jurisdiction outside of the workplace, but a lot of our members are being assaulted in the process of getting work whether it’s with directors or producers or writers when they’re doing the initial meetings. So, we’re creating these rules to protect them so that they don’t have to say I won't do this. They say my union won't allow it.” You can hear the entire interview with SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle (GAH-BRIELLE) Carteris on the State of the Unions podcast wherever you listen to podcasts On today’s labor calendar, Locked-out Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians – members of AFM Local 40-543 – will perform tonight at 6pm at this month’s Bread and Roses series at the Takoma Busboys and Poets; the concert is free but folks will be encouraged to donate to support the musicians. For details and all the latest labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1900, one hundred thousand Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners went out on strike. Today’s labor quote is by Susan B. Anthony, who called for the formation of a Working Women's Association on this date in 1868, at a New York convention of the National Labor Congress: Susan B. Anthony, who said: “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. The 2020 Union Plus Scholarship application is now open and available to current and retired members, their spouses and their dependent children. Visit unionplus.org/scholarship. |
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