As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect countless working people, with nearly 1 million deaths in the United States, the AFL-CIO on Tuesday released its 31st annual report, Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, a national and state-by-state profile of worker safety and health. A few of the grim statistics include 340 working people died every day in 2020 because of hazardous working conditions; an estimated 120,000 workers died from occupational diseases; and while employers reported nearly 3.2 million work-related injuries and illnesses, underreporting is widespread—the true toll of work-related injuries and illnesses is 5.4 million to 8.1 million each year. “That’s tens of thousands of families losing a parent, a child, a sibling, every single year,” said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler. “Latino and Black workers specifically remain at greater risk of dying on the job than all workers. That is, frankly, unacceptable.” Wednesdays with Warner for the PRO Act: Wed, April 27, 8:15am – 9:15am
Windmill Hill Park, 500 S. Lee St., Alexandria NoVA Labor Reception for Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkenshaw: Wed, April 27, 5pm – 7pm Kilroy's, 5250 Port Royal Rd., Springfield, VA DC CLUW Chapter meeting: Wed, April 27, 6pm – 7pm Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, April 27, 7pm – 8pm Our special guest is: Boaz Young-EL, VEA UniServ Director. Boaz led the successful effort to pass a resolution in the City of Richmond granting school employees the right to bargain collectively. Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, April 28, 1pm – 2pm WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online. This week’s guests: “The Wobblies” director Deborah Shaffer; Catholic Labor Network Executive Director Clayton Sinyai. Rally for Collective Bargaining Rights for Fairfax County School Employees: Thu, April 28, 6:30pm – 7:30pm Luther Jackson Middle School, 3020 Gallows Rd, Falls Church, VA Pride at Work: Thu, April 28, 7:15pm – 8:15pm Pride at Work is our support group for LGBTQ+ rights. Everyone is welcome! DC Domestic Workers Demand Dignity: Growing the Movement: Thu, April 28, 7:30pm – 9:00pm Honoring Msgr. George Higgins: Sun, May 1, 11am – 1pm St. Matthew’s Cathedral, 1725 Rhode Island Ave NW in Washington DC. (map) May Day Rally and March: Sun, May 1, 1pm – 4pm Malcolm X Park (16th and Euclid St NW, Washington DC) to The White House (map) Excluded Worker May Day for the New Labor Movement! Sun, May 1, 3pm – 6pm Columbia Heights Civic Plaza Excluded Workers are rallying this May Day! We're inviting the whole DC community to show up in support and solidarity to uplift the struggles of excluded workers and the fight for $160 million in cash assistance. FILM: THE WOBBLIES: Sun, May 1, 5:30pm – 7:00pm AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910 INFO/TICKETS Opening Night of the 2022 DC Labor FilmFest! Labor Night at the Nats: Fri, June 10, 7:05pm – 11:00pm $17.00 per ticket; CSA will receive $2.00 per ticket sold. Click the link for a home run and purchase tickets: Josh Grohs, Account Executive, Group Sales (o) 202-640-7714 or [email protected] Wilton Cardinal Gregory and "labor priest" Fr. Brian Jordan OFM marked Workers Memorial Day locally by celebrating a special Workers' Memorial Day Mass on Tuesday at St. Camillus in Silver Spring. Rank-and-file members and leaders of the unions of the Baltimore-DC Metro Building and Construction Trades Council, union leaders, safety personnel, OSHA officials attended, along with family, friends and elected officials who gathered to “honor and remember those that lost their lives in the past year on the jobsite in the District, Maryland and Virginia.” photo by Dyana Forester The Baltimore DC Metro Building Trades Council welcomed their newest member last month when Nichalas "Nick" Cummings was hired on as BTC Director. Cummings has been a union advocate and member of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 486 since 1999, becoming an instructor and Trustee for 486's Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee. He later became a recruiter and elected officer for local 486 where he established strong relationships with community-based organizations in Baltimore City and the surrounding counties. As Director, Nick has been entrusted to continue implementation of the pre-apprenticeship program and to increase recruitment of applicants by working with community organizations to establish pathways into union apprenticeship. “Nick's goal is to provide apprenticeship opportunities to disadvantaged residents of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Northern Virginia to provide family sustaining careers in our industry,” said the BCT. |