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Today's topic: sexual harassment at work; recognizing it and how to deal with it
Guests:
Robin Runge, Senior Specialist, Gender, Equality and Inclusion, Solidarity Center 
Maya Raghu, Director of Workplace Equality & Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center; 
 
Labor Song: Lady Gaga – Till it happens to you 

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A bill requiring all D.C. public and charter schools to have a full-time nurse moved forward at the DC City Council on Tuesday, when the Council’s Committee on Health voted 5-0 to pass the bill out of committee.
The DC Nurses Association has been working closely with parents and the Washington Teachers Union to pass the bill. They’re worried about funding for full-time nurses, however, and are urging the Mayor to make this a priority and to put the lives of District children first. Current DC law requires school nurses just 20 hours a week.

On today's labor calendar, both Unite Here and UFCW Local 400 have a number of actions scheduled for today, and the Metro DC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is hosting a discussion tonight about socialist trade unionism.
Complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1980, the J.P. Stevens textile company was forced to sign its first union contract after a 17-year struggle in North Carolina and other southern states.
 
Today’s labor quote is by Frederick Douglass, the former slave, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who said:
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

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Negotiations for a new contract with Kroger have stalled and UFCW Local 400 members are planning in-store actions this Thursday at stores in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. “We will not stop until we move Kroger to a fair deal,” said Local 400.

The contract for communication workers at Frontier West Virginia has been extended for three months as negotiations continue. The contract will now expire on November 4. Area locals affected include CWA locals 2107 and 2222.

On today's labor calendar, join the Kalmanovitz Initiative as they explore the state of union organizing in a panel discussion on “Worker Organizing, Then and Now” starting at 5:30pm today at Georgetown University.
And at 6 tonight, catch a screening of the film “From The Land Of Gandhi” at the Hyattsville Busboys and Poets.
Complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.

Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1911, New York City agreed to pay women school teachers a rate equal to that of men.
And in 1983 on this date, General Motors agreed to hire more women and minorities for five years as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
 
Today’s labor quote is by organizer Saul Alinsky, who said:
"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

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The multi-million-dollar DC Wharf development opened last Thursday with great pomp and circumstance, but a new report calls it a “massive taxpayer subsidy” that created low-wage jobs with minimal benefits.
While the District approved $300 million in public subsidies for the Wharf project, an analysis by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute said that “neither the developer nor the District’s economic development leaders took meaningful steps to ensure that the Wharf resulted in good-quality jobs or other benefits for DC residents.”
Most construction workers at the Wharf were not represented by a union, and many of its non-union construction jobs paid less than $15 an hour, often with minimal benefits. The hotel, restaurant, and retail jobs at the newly opened Wharf also are likely to be non-union, and have similarly low pay and benefits. We have a link to the report on our website, dclabor.org

On today's labor calendar, the film “From the Land of Gandhi” screens free tonight at 6 at the Takoma Busboys and Poets, part of the Films Across Borders series co-sponsored by the DC LaborFest.

​Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1950, a strike begins by the mostly Mexican-American members of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union Local 890 in Bayard, New Mexico. Strikers' wives walked picket lines for seven months when their husbands were barred from picketing during the 14-month strike, inspiring the 1954 film "Salt of the Earth," originally banned by the U.S. government and now recognized as an American classic.
 
Today’s labor quote is by William "Big Bill" Haywood, who said:
“If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.”

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