The DC City Council can take a huge step toward turning retail and fast food jobs into good jobs by supporting “Just Hours” legislation that will create pathways to full-time hours with stable schedules. Councilmember Vincent Orange and several others will introduce the Hours and Scheduling Stability Act today. For thousands who work in retail and food service, these new rules would make an enormous difference by ensuring access to available hours for current employees, requiring schedules be posted three weeks in advance and holding employers accountable for abusive on-call shifts and late schedule changes.
Find out more dcjusthours.org On today’s labor calendar, join DC Jobs with Justice and allies at 11am to “Show the DC Council It's Time for Just Hours” at the John A. Wilson Building. Details at dcjwj.org Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1913, the Ford Motor Company introduced the continuous moving assembly line, which could produce a complete car every two-and-a-half minutes. In 1930, Kellogg cereal adopted the 6-hour day. And on this date in 1955, African-American Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, fueling the growing civil rights movement's campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South's "Jim Crow" laws. Today’s labor quote is by Rosa Parks, who said: “My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.” Rosa Parks, who said, “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”
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