A coalition of labor unions -- including the Communications Workers -- is currently in national bargaining with the American Red Cross. CWA represents Red Cross employees in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. At the last national bargaining session in June, the Union Coalition presented ways to increase savings for the company and reinvest those savings into the workforce. “Management, however, claims there is not enough money to provide workers a living wage and financial stability,” reports CWA. “The Union Coalition told management that workers will not make an agreement that takes them backward on wages or healthcare.” On today’s labor calendar, “Collective Action on the Rise: How the Labor Movement Can Sustain the Momentum of Change,” a panel discussion of union activists on the future of the labor movement, today at 12 noon at the AFL-CIO; if you can’t make it in person, catch the livestream on YouTube; details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1946, Sidney Hillman died at age 59. Hillman led the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and was a close advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today’s labor quote is by educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, born on this date in 1875: Mary McLeod Bethune, who said: “We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a terrible, destructive force.”
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