News: Local union members -- members of IATSE Local 487 -- walked off the DC set of the movie “Sharknado 3” last Wednesday in solidarity with the film’s crew now on strike in Los Angeles. Filming on the latest satirical disaster film was underway near the White House when the strike occurred. The LA crew is striking for union representation to ensure health and pension benefits, which the crew of “Sharknado 2” had. “Representatives of the IATSE and its local unions will be present whenever and wherever this production attempts to film in and around Washington, D.C.,” said IATSE’s Dan Mahoney.
In today’s labor calendar, author Hilary Klein speaks on her new book "Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories" at 4pm at Georgetown University, and tonight’s Metro Washington Council Delegate Meeting starts at 6:30pm at the AFL-CIO. Go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for complete details. Here's today's labor history: Refusing to accept a 9-cent wage increase, the United Packinghouse Workers of America on this date in 1948 initiated a nationwide strike against meatpacking companies Swift, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson, Morrell, and others. Packinghouse workers shut down 140 plants around the country. Today's labor quote is by Eleanor Roosevelt: “I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.” Eleanor Roosevelt, who said, “I am opposed to ‘right to work’ legislation because it does nothing for working people, but instead gives employers the right to exploit labor.”
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