Local retail workers, community leaders, and Walmart workers will rally today as part of a nationwide “Are You With Us?” grassroots initiative. The 3:30p action at the H Street Walmart asks people to stand with Walmart workers in their fight for a better life, exposing the negative impact the country’s largest employer has on all American workers. That includes paying employees poverty-level wages, cutting hours and schedules to force workers into part-time jobs and salaries, and insufficient benefits, forcing countless hard-working Walmart workers to live in poverty while they struggle to pay bills and support their families.
Today’s labor calendar is jam-packed: At 10 am, postal workers will deliver 150,000 signatures demanding postal banking to the Postmaster General; At noon, flight attendants will picket United Airlines at National Airport; At 1 pm I’ll discuss why CTE is a workplace issue on “Your Rights At Work” here on WPFW; At 2 pm, flight attendants will picket United Airlines at Dulles Airport; And the Walmart demo is at 3:30 pm at the H Street Walmart. Go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for complete details on all of these events. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1918, 1,000 members of the Australian Workers’ Union, led by Harold Nelson, marched on the Government House in Darwin, Australia, demanding the resignation of John Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory. They were protesting unemployment, lack of political representation, and taxation without representation. Gilruth left under military protection, never to return, and Nelson went on to win the first Territory seat in Australia’s House of Representatives. Today’s labor quote is by Isaiah, a former Walmart worker: “Executives and management treat us like we’re disposable.”
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