In March 2017, nearly 200 EMS professionals at American Medical Response voted to join a union. Over a year later, they still have no contract. We have a link on our website, dclabor.org, where you can take action and tell AMR to come to an agreement now with EMS Workers United/AFSCME District Council 20 and its members. “These brave men and women are there for us in our worst moments,” says DC Jobs with Justice. “It’s vital we’re there for them when they need us as well.”
On today’s labor calendar, "The Workers Cup" movie continues at the Angelika Pop-Up; details and all the latest labor calendar postings are at dclabor.org; click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1964, President Johnson signed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion. Hear more on this week’s Labor History Today podcast, available on your favorite podcast platform, just search for Union City Radio. Today’s labor quote is by activist, antiwar protestor, and lifelong labor organizer Paul Booth, who said: “Hold tight to comradeship. Hold tight to your ambitions: to do together something much bigger than you could do yourself….we are living in an era of minority rule. They are ruthless about exercising the power they have. We have a responsibility to lead, and to constantly create and recreate majorities. The 2016 election reminds us of that. This is hard, uphill work. And, we have to rekindle our big ambitions. We have to make it happen.”
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