News: IMF employees on their way into work last Thursday were warned that asbestos work is being done by workers with faked asbestos licenses. Members of the Laborers Mid-Atlantic local, wearing Tyvek suits and gas masks, passed out informational fliers about the fraudulent licenses at the IMF building on 19th Street, which houses approximately 2,300 staff and a day care center which has remained open during the asbestos abatement project. The District of Columbia recently found that staffing company Green Jobs Works has employed six “unlicensed personnel” on the ongoing project. Asbestos is a known human carcinogen and can cause chronic lung disease as well as lung and other cancers.
Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1937, sixty-three sit-down strikers, demanding recognition of their union, were tear-gassed and driven from two Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation plants in Chicago. Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court declared sit-down strikes illegal. The tactic had been a major industrial union organizing tool. In 1992, two locals of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, struck in sympathy with 1,300 graduate student teaching assistants who were demanding the right to negotiate with the university. Today’s labor quote is by Congressman Barney Frank: “People talk about how a rising tide lifts all boats. For some people a rising tide is a very bad thing. For people who don’t have a boat and who are standing on their tip toes to keep their heads above water, a rising tide is not a welcome prospect.” Barney Frank served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013.
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