click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15am daily WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report NoVA Virtual Phone bank for Cameron Webb (VA 5th Congressional District candidate): Wed, October 28, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Click here to register MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (OH): Wed, October 28, 6pm – 9pm Sign up here Phone bank Against Montgomery County, MD Ballot Question B: Wed, October 28, 6:30pm – 8:30pm David Stephen [email protected] Special Meeting of the Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, October 28, 7:30pm – 8:30pm The Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus is co-hosting this special meeting with Qasim Rashid, Congressional candidate in CD 1. Register here to get the zoom link Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: RadioLabour; We Do The Work; America’s Work Force; Laborlines Labour calls for a new social contract; “Grand Theft Paycheck”; NFLPA’s JC Tretter on renegotiating collective bargaining agreements for player safety during the pandemic; an interview with NYC Restaurant Workers Council organizers. Union workers at Kroger stores in West Virginia are continuing demonstrations throughout the week to protest cuts to their health care benefits proposed by the company in recent contract negotiations. “Kroger’s proposal could force the fund to cut benefits, increase costs to workers, or limit the number of employees eligible for health care,” said Mark Federici, President of UFCW Local 400. “Many employees could see their health care benefits simply disappear.” Read more here, including details on daily protests Wednesday through Saturday at stores throughout the region. “He might not be a household name among most county residents. But for almost four decades, Gino Renne, head of the union that represents a majority of the Montgomery County government’s workforce, has been an influential — and intimidating — presence in the Executive Office Building and the County Council chambers in Rockville.” Renne, president of UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO, candidly discusses his union’s rise and the recent history of labor-management relations in Montgomery County’s public sector in an interview with Bethesda Magazine published in conjunction with an examination of the history and role of Montgomery County’s public employee unions that appears in the November/December edition of the magazine. |