OPEIU – the Office and Professional Employees International Union -- has created an organizing campaign called NEU— Nonprofit Employees United—to reach out to the staff of nonprofit organizations. “We’ve secured workplace policies and procedures that make our legal services and advocacy nonprofits more inclusive, accountable, and effective,” say union members in a recent post.
Workers at the Solidarity Center, for example, negotiated for paid parental leave, and at Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, NEU members negotiated for their employer to make every reasonable effort to provide time and support during the normal work day to take care of administrative tasks and follow-up on their work. Find out more about NEU on our website at dclabor.org. On today’s labor calendar, locked-out Baltimore Symphony Musicians picket from 8 to 9:30am this morning. For details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1935, New York City subway system managers in the Bronx tried to make cleaning crews work faster by forcing the use of a 14-inch squeegee instead of the customary 10-inch tool. Six workers were fired for insubordination, but a two-day walkout by the Transport Workers Union got their jobs back, along with the return of their regular squeegee. Today’s labor quote is by Ken Riley, president of Local 1422 of the International Longshoremen’s Association in Charleston, South Carolina. On this date in 2001, five thousand demonstrators rallied at the state capitol in Columbia, South Carolina in support of the "Charleston Five," labor activists charged with felony rioting during a police attack on a longshoremen's picket of a non-union crew unloading a ship the previous year. Ken Riley, who said: “We come from the American South where labor is oppressed. We continue to win because losing is not an option.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re planning to go to the movies this summer, you can save up to 37% off tickets with Union Plus Movie Discounts at national chains. Visit unionplus.org/movies.
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