Longtime Teamsters 639 President Thomas Ratliff heads up this year's Evening with Labor award-winners, earning the JC Turner Award for Outstanding Trades Unionist of the Year. Ratliff has continued Local 639's tradition of active organizing, hard bargaining and fights to the finish for his members. One of the biggest events on the annual local labor calendar, this year’s Evening with Labor is set for this Saturday; for tickets contact [email protected] Other awards include those for Organizing, the Golden Picket, COPE, Outstanding Ally, and the Community Services Award: go to dclabor.org and click on Evening with Labor to see the complete list of award-winners.
Today’s labor calendar includes tonight’s free screening of the film “Food Chains: The Revolution in America’s Fields” beginning at 5pm at the AFL-CIO, which includes a discussion with the film’s director. Go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for details and to RSVP. Here's today's labor history: On this date in 1830, the term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appeared in print in the New York Daily Sentinel. The newspaper was quoting a typesetter while reporting on replacement workers who had agreed to work for two-thirds of the going rate. And in 1946, a four-month UAW strike at General Motors ended with a new contract. The strikers were trying to make up for the lack of wage hikes during World War II. Today's labor quote is by Eric Schlosser: "There is more interest in food than ever, yet there is almost no interest in the hands that pick that food." - Eric Schlosser, who’s featured in the film “Food Chains,” is an American journalist and author whose books include “Fast Food Nation” and “Chew On This”
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