Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO

Street Heat Updates: BSO picketline; Solidarity with Vegas casino workers

6/20/2019

While a negotiating session has been set for tomorrow, the locked-out BSO musicians continue picketing today (see Calendar above). Check out their great video here (be sure to turn up your speakers!).
And today at 11:30a, UNITE HERE will have a solidarity picket here in DC in support of workers at the Palms Casino and Green Valley Ranch Casino in Las Vegas. Workers in both casinos have voted overwhelmingly to unionize but owners are refusing to negotiate. See Calendar for details.

LABOR CALENDAR

6/20/2019

click here for latest listings

Union City Radio: 7:15a M-F; WPFW-FM 89.3

Baltimore Symphony Musicians picket line: Thu, June 20, 7:30am – 9:30am; 11:30am – 1:30pm & 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1212 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 21201

Prince George's/Montgomery County Committee on Political Education (COPE): Thu, June 20, 10am – 12pm
Location TBD, contact David Ddzidzienyo, [email protected]

Tell Palms and Green Valley Ranch Casino to Negotiate! Thu, June 20, 11:30am – 1:00pm
1155 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, June 20, 1pm – 3pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Guests include: BSO percussionist Brian Prechtl; [email protected]'s Jerame Davis; plus former circus clown union reps Chris Bricker & Murray Horwitz. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith.

Great Labor Arts Exchange (40th annual) launches: Thu, June 20, 2pm
Tommy Douglas Conference Center, 10000 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20903
Details here

[email protected]'s 25th Anniversary Celebration: Thu, June 20, 6pm – 8pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St. NW, Washington, DC

Monthly NoVA Labor Meeting: Thu, June 20, 7pm – 9pm
NoVA Labor, 4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale VA

Solidarity Center Report: Worker Rights Under Severe Repression

6/20/2019

The number of countries that exclude workers from the right to form or join unions increased from 92 in 2018 to 107 in 2019, and 80 percent of countries deny some or all workers collective bargaining rights, according to the International Trade Union Confederation’s Global Rights Index 2019 released this week.The report also finds union members were murdered in 10 countries and 85 percent of countries have violated the right to strike. Read more at the Solidarity Center.

Today’s Labor Quote: Harry Truman

6/20/2019

“The bill is deliberately designed to weaken labor unions. When the sponsors of the bill claim that by weakening unions, they are giving rights back to individual workingmen, they ignore the basic reason why unions are important in our democracy. Unions exist so that laboring men can bargain with their employers on a basis of equality.”

Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act on this date in 1947. The veto was overridden three days later by a Republican-controlled Congress.

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