AFSCME Maryland members have won a tentative agreement to reinstate their employee leave donation program for non-exempt staff at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County. Working through AFSCME Local 1459, UMBC employees proposed being able to donate earned sick leave to a co-worker facing catastrophic illness who's depleted their sick leave. Management agreed, as long as employees maintain a minimum balance of sick leave hours. Non-exempt employees at UMBC had previously lost this right and have now won it back. The UMBC workers will vote on this and other contract wins later this year.
On this weekend's labor calendar, area union activists will join the annual Pride Parade tomorrow, gathering at 4:30pm at 22nd & P Streets, NW. For the latest local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, which mandated equal pay to women who are performing the same jobs as men. On June 11, 1894, representatives from the American Federation of Labor, Knights of Labor, the populists, railroad brotherhoods and other trade unions held a unity conference in St. Louis but failed to overcome their differences. And on June 12, 1981, the Major League Baseball strike began, forcing cancellation of 713 games. Most observers blamed team owners for the strike: they were trying to recover from a court decision favoring the players on free agency. Today’s labor quote is by pitcher Tom Seaver, during the 1981 baseball strike: “The owners are taking a very destructive position; it’s very disturbing. If they are trying to alienate the players, they are doing a good job." Seaver was a superstar pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds.
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