D.C. workers spoke out about their experiences being unfairly fired at the Employment Justice Center’s Community Speak-Out last Saturday. The EJC workers’ committee interviewed more than 200 DC workers for their report on the impact of being fired, which they identified as an “extremely significant issue in the fight for fair treatment of workers in the District.”
On today’s labor calendar, there’s a White Gold Pre-Party demonstration starting at 6:30pm at the Uzbek Embassy; the Uzbek government operates one of the largest state-run forced labor systems of cotton production in the world. Go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for complete details. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1934, some 14,000 Chicago teachers who had gone without pay for several months finally collected about $1,400 each. In 1950, President Truman ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike. The railroads were not returned to their owners until two years later. Today’s labor quote is by Harry Truman: “The right to join a union of one's choice is unquestioned today and is sanctioned and protected by law.”
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