Thousands of local supermarket workers at Giant are preparing for a strike. While a tentative agreement has been reached with Safeway, Giant management "has refused to agree to a similar fair deal," reports UFCW Local 400. With the contract expiring this Friday, the union says that "all options (are) on the table" and has begun preparations for a possible strike. Talks continued Monday afternoon; watch for updates this morning at dclabor.org "We are ready to do whatever it takes to get a fair contract and we will continue to stand together and fight until we all get the agreement we deserve," said Local 400.
On today's labor calendar, author John Judis will discuss his new book "The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics" today at noon at the AFL-CIO And then tonight at 6 at the Takoma Busboys and Poets, join political writer Harold Meyerson for a discussion about "What’s Next for Labor?" following this year's election. Details on both events -- and the entire local labor calendar -- are on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1881, the founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions was held in Pittsburgh. It urged enactment of employer liability, compulsory education, uniform apprenticeship and child and convict labor laws. Five years later it changed its name to the American Federation of Labor, the precursor to today's AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote is from the preamble to the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions' constitution "A struggle is going on in the nations of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed...a struggle between capital and labor, which must grow in intensity from year to year and work disastrous results to the toiling millions of all nations..."
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What’s ahead for working people and the labor movement under President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress? Metro Washington Council Executive Director Carlos Jimenez moderates a discussion tomorrow night with political writer Harold Meyerson, Dyana Forester, lead political and community representative for UFCW Local 400, and Joanna Blotner, DC Paid Family and Medical Leave Program Campaign Manager at Jews United for Justice. "Here’s your chance to vent, to mourn, and to begin organizing," says Jimenez. "What's on your mind?" The free event starts at 6pm at the Takoma Busboys and Poets; complete details on this and the rest of the local labor calendar are on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1903, the Women’s Trade Union League was founded in Boston. The League played an important role in supporting the massive strikes in the first two decades of the twentieth century that established the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and in campaigning for women's suffrage among men and women workers. In 1938, the National Federation of Telephone Workers—later to become the Communications Workers of America—was founded in New Orleans. And in 1979, the Federation of Professional Athletes was granted a charter by the AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote is by James Baldwin Writer and activist James Baldwin, who said "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" Today is Veterans Day, when we honor those who have served the nation in the United States Armed Forces.
Millions of union sisters and brothers are veterans. The issues facing veterans and those facing working families are the same — a lack of good jobs, attacks on health care and fading dreams of a better life. If you’re a veteran or if you know a veteran, you should know about the AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council. The Union Veterans Council brings union members who are veterans together to speak out on the issues that affect veterans most, especially the need for good jobs and a strong, fully funded and staffed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Council also holds private enterprise and elected officials accountable for their words and actions. “Veterans face real issues that require real actions,” says Will Fischer, executive director of the Union Veterans Council. The Union Veterans Council fights every day for those who have fought for us. On the labor calendar, you can join DC Jacobin to discuss the latest issue of Jacobin magazine on labor and the socialist left tomorrow at 3pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for details. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1887, the Haymarket martyrs were hanged, after being convicted in the bombing deaths of eight police during a Chicago labor rally. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. Someone – no one knows who -- threw a dynamite bomb at police as they moved to break up the public meeting and the bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; scores of others were wounded. In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed, eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy, despite evidence that while one of the defendants may have built the bomb, none of those on trial had thrown it. Seven were sentenced to death and one to a term of 15 years in prison. The death sentences of two of the defendants were commuted to terms of life in prison, and another committed suicide in jail rather than face the gallows. The other four were hanged on this date in 1887. In 1893, Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld pardoned the remaining defendants and criticized the trial. Today’s labor quote is by labor studies professor William J. Adelman, who said "No single event has influenced the history of labor in Illinois, the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket Affair. It began with a rally on May 4, 1886, but the consequences are still being felt today." Hosts: Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
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