Saying that “This is how a real president provides relief in a responsible way,” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka on Thursday said that the economic package unveiled by President-elect Joe Biden is part of the AFL-CIO’s Workers First Agenda and includes the lifesaving elements America’s labor movement has been fighting for since last summer. 
Those include enhanced unemployment insurance, state and local government assistance, direct payments to individuals, COBRA subsidies, an eviction moratorium, expanded paid leave and a long overdue Occupational Safety and Health Administration emergency temporary standard for infectious disease. 
Trumka said that “Congress should pass this relief package at once so we can provide healing and hope to those suffering under this deadly pandemic, and then begin the important work of rebuilding America with legislation like the PRO Act and President-elect Biden’s Build Back Better plan.”

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2021 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference: January 15-16
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Aims to build on our victories and strategize about the continued fight for economic and racial justice with—and also within—the labor movement.

Coalition to Repeal Right-to-Work: Fri, January 15, 7pm – 9pm
Coalition of more than 50 groups that want to repeal this mis-named law and give workers the right to work with dignity.

Our Revolution Virtual Town Hall on Repeal of RTW: Sat, January 16, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Our Revolution Chair Larry Cohen and NoVA OR Chair Sandra Klassen will moderate a panel on repeal of "right to work." Speakers include Delegates Sally Hudson, Josh Cole and Lee Carter, plus Josh Armstead, Michelle Woolley, Don Slaiman, and Virginia Diamond.
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2021 Gonna Take Us All MLK Holiday Inaugural Ball: Sun, January 17, 8:00pm – 11:59pm
Sponsored by the Labor Heritage Foundation. The Motown Diva herself, Lynn Marie Smith, will be DJ’ing, and along with the rest of the country, we will be happily celebrating the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.
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Missed yesterday's Your Rights At Work radio show? Catch the podcast here; John Boardman, UNITE HERE Local 25 on calls for DC-area hotel closures and transit safety procedures to protect staff and public from right-wing violence. Anita Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer at Howard University Hospital, clears up the myths and realities about the COVID vaccine. Richard Schweid on “The Caring Class.” Plus: Maryland My Maryland: The Free State Song. Hear a proposed replacement for the state’s song glorifying secession and violence. Sign the petition here.