Bargaining team members from the Coalition of Red Cross Unions last week presented proposals to American Red Cross management to improve worker and donor safety, improve worker retention, decrease workforce turnover, and improve employees’ work-life balance. “We are standing strong together to make sure that Red Cross listens to our experience and our ideas so it can become an even better place to work!” said the Coalition, composed of representatives from nine unions. The next national bargaining session is this week.
On today’s labor calendar, the DC LaborFest continues today with the “Images of Labor in the National Gallery of Art” tour at 1pm and then tonight we have two screenings of “American Socialist: Eugene Victor Debs” starting at 6 pm at both the Takoma and Shirlington Busboys and Poets; filmmaker Yale Strom will be at the Takoma screening. Also tonight, the Woman's National Democratic Club hosts a Forum on Labor and the Economy starting at 6:30; Complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history, On this date in 1920, the Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920 gave federal workers a pension. Today’s labor quote is by Eugene V. Debs, who was imprisoned in Woodstock, Illinois on this date in 1895 for his role in the Pullman strike, the nationwide railroad strike that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and was a turning point for US labor law. Gene Debs, who said, after the Pullman strike: “No strike has ever been lost.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org!
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As many as 14,000 AT&T workers may strike soon if they can’t reach agreement on new contracts. CWA’s Executive Board recently approved a strike by workers covered by AT&T’s Midwest and Legacy T contracts; The Executive Board’s decision came after AT&T Midwest and Legacy T workers voted on April 10 to authorize a strike, “as the company is stonewalling workers at the bargaining table over the need for good, family supporting jobs,” said CWA. The Executive Board’s decision gives CWA President Chris Shelton the go ahead to set a strike date if negotiators cannot reach an agreement. The AT&T Midwest contract covers workers in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, while the Legacy T contract covers workers nationwide.
On today’s labor calendar: the AFL-CIO hosts a Conference on Immigration Policy and Politics starting at 9am this morning, the Metro Washington Council meets tonight at 6:30, and there are two Labor FilmFest films screening tonight: Dolores at the New Deal Cafe, and On The Seventh Day at AFI Silver; Complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 2004, nearly 100,000 unionized SBC Communications workers began a four-day strike to protest the local phone giant’s latest contract offer. Today’s labor quote is by Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, who in 1977, fifty years after the executions of two Italian anarchists – one a shoemaker, the other a fishmonger -- signed a proclamation declaring, “Any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. We are not here to say whether these men are guilty or innocent. We are here to say that the high standards of justice, which we in Massachusetts take such pride in, failed Sacco and Vanzetti.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! “As workers’ interests continue to be distorted in immigration debates around the country, it is time to set the record straight,” says the AFL-CIO. The national labor federation is hosting “We All Do Better,” a conference on immigration policy and politics, next Monday, May 21. All are welcome, especially activists and advocates who work on immigration and labor issues. Go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar to RSVP.
On today’s labor calendar: grab your lunch and head over to Working Lunch: Short Films About Labor, from the DC LaborFest, a 1-hour program starting at noon at the AFL-CIO, when two local directors will share a pair of great short films. Complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1912, in what may have been baseball’s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers refused to play after team leader Ty Cobb was suspended. Cobb was reinstated and the Tigers went back to work after the team manager’s failed attempt to replace the players with a local college team: their pitcher gave up 24 runs. Today’s labor quote is by Big Bill Haywood, a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, who died in exile in the Soviet Union on this date in 1928; Big Bill Haywood, who said: The mine owners "did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!" Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! Chris Garlock hosts local labor candidates Gabriel Acevero (UFCW 1994, candidate for State Delegate for Maryland's 39th legislative district) and Wala Blegay (DCNA, candidate for Delegate in District 25, Prince George's County, with David Dzidzienyo, Metro Washington Council Director of Legislative/Political Affairs.
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