Legislative updates: click here for the latest updates, including More Info On Relief For Workers Affected By Coronavirus Act; Hoyer: Republican Senators Action "Hurts Not Only The Residents Of The District, But Our Entire Region" By Not Recognizing DC As A State; Montgomery County Council Introduced a $5 Million Special Appropriation To Support The Increased Need For Existing County Safety-Net Programs; Senators Unanimously Passed The Biggest Stimulus Package In History
Unemployment Insurance: click here for the latest helpful information on UI, including Provisions Related to Unemployment Compensation in the Senate-passed CARES Act (FAQ) (and click here to hear DC Councilmember Elissa Silverman discuss UI on yesterday's Your Rights At Work on WPFW 89.3FM or search for Union City Radio on your favorite podcast platform). CSA: latest resource updates posted here. Union Voice/Readers Write: Appreciating connecting; graphic source; organizing during COVID-193/27/2020
Appreciating connection: “I just wanted to say thank you so much for continuing to send these morning emails out,” writes Renata Strause. “I love being connected to the area labor movement this way and to know what's going on, and right now, I especially appreciate the feeling of normalcy it gives. It is so good to hear about how union members are stepping up and taking care of each other and our community in these tough times, and it is really giving me so much hope every morning. Thank you, and take care.”
Graphic source: "The handwashing graphic is cropped from here," writes Monica Gorman. Organizing during COVID-19: “NPEU put out a statement about the importance of continuing to organize unions in our sector and in every workplace, even during this uncertainty caused by COVID-19,” writes Ethan Miller. “I will tell the truth wherever I please.”
Mother Jones was ordered to leave Colorado, where state authorities accused her of “stirring up” striking coal miners, on this date in 1904. This week’s Labor History Today podcast: COVID-19: An injury to one is the concern of all Al Neal’s “Silent streets: Life halts, but not for all workers,” and Joe McCartin on “Class and the Challenge of COVID-19.” Plus Saul Schniderman and John O’Connor remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Last week’s show: The Great Postal Strike, Watergate and “Casey Jones, the Union Scab” March 27 U.S. Supreme Court rules that undocumented workers do not have the same rights as Americans when they are wrongly fired - 2002 March 28 Members of Gas House Workers’ Union Local 18799 begin what is to become a four-month recognition strike against the Laclede Gas Light Co. in St. Louis. The union later said the strike was the first ever against a public utility in the U.S. - 1935 Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. Violence during the march persuades him to return the following week to Memphis, where he was assassinated - 1968 March 29 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day - 1852 Sam Walton, founder of the huge and bitterly anti-union Wal-Mart empire, born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He once said that his priority was to “Buy American,” but Wal-Mart is now the largest U.S. importer of foreign-made goods—often produced under sweatshop conditions - 1918 “Battle of Wall Street,” police charge strikers lying down in front of stock exchange doors, 43 arrested - 1948 National Maritime Union of America merges with National Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association - 1988 - David Prosten |