“We know all the steps to the monster mash, but do you know the steps to forming a union? Learn the moves!” Yes, the NLRB General Counsel really tweeted this yesterday! btw here’s the link for the Basic Steps to Forming a Union pdf. This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The longest nurses’ strike. Last week’s show: No Equal Justice.
October 28 Wall street crashes – "Black Tuesday" – throwing the world's economy into a years-long crisis including an unemployment rate in the U.S. that by 1933 hit nearly 25 percent – 1929 October 29 Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs – 1986 October 30 Tennessee sends in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County. The miners revolted, burned the stockades, and sent the captured convicts by train back to Knoxville – 1891 David Prosten In 2018, when the DC Council overturned Initiative 77, they included a requirement that all businesses paying the tipped minimum wage report wages and tips to the DC Department of Employment Services (DOES). Four years later, it turns out most of them haven’t. That’s according to Still in the Dark: Tipped Wages in DC, a report released yesterday by DC Jobs with Justice, ROC-DC and the D.C. Just Pay Coalition. Only 11% reported consistently, and nearly two out of every three DC restaurants (65%) never submitted their wages over the course of a year. “What is most disheartening is the lack of reporting by some of DC's biggest names,” including the Hamilton, Le Diplomate, and Jose Andres' restaurants, says the report. “If restaurants and other businesses continue to break the law, there is no way to know that tipped workers are actually making the wages they are owed”. DC JWJ Executive Director Elizabeth Falcon will discuss the report on the Your Rights At Work radio show (WPFW 89.3FM) today at 1p. |