News: Students at American University are organizing to ensure that food service workers at the Tenley Campus in the American University Washington College of Law are covered under the same union contract as all other food service workers on campus. “The workers at Tenley cafeteria have been an important part of our community for many years, and have been part of the same union as other campus food service workers,” the students say in their online petition. “This did not change when Aramark took over.” The bargaining unit is part of UNITE HERE Local 23. Click here to sign the petition.
Here's today's labor history: On this date in 1913, Joe Hill’s song “There is Power in a Union” appeared in the Little Red Song Book, published by the Wobblies. In 1930, with the Great Depression underway, hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers demonstrated in some 30 cities and towns; close to 100,000 filled Union Square in New York City and were attacked by mounted police. And in 1972, predominantly young workers at a Lordstown, Ohio, GM assembly plant staged a wildcat strike, largely in objection to the grueling work pace: at 101.6 cars per hour, their assembly line was believed to be the fastest in the world. Today's labor quote is by Joe Hill, from the first stanza of his song “There Is Power in a Union”: There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union
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