“Donald Trump wants to throw veterans to the wolves,” said American Federation of Government Employees president J. David Cox Sr. on Monday. Trump said that if elected President he would shut down the existing VA health care system and instead turn vets over to the for-profit system. However, independent assessments have found that the VA’s health care is best for veterans on both cost and quality and veterans themselves overwhelmingly want their health care to come from the federal government. "If Trump were serious about caring for veterans,” Cox said, “he would invest in the only health care system that is tailored to veterans, that is better than all others, and is working every day to become even stronger."
There are three events on today’s labor calendar, from a noontime discussion on the Puerto Rico financial crisis at the AFL-CIO to “Bargaining for the Common Good: Lessons from Los Angeles and Beyond” at 2:30 at Georgetown and then at 6:30 the National Writers Union hosts a panel discussion on “SPY vs. SPY” as Jim Ellenburger and his co-authors of the spy thriller “High Hand” compare notes with a real spy, retired KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, at the International Spy Museum. For complete details, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1934, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union organized in Tyronza, Arkansas. In 1995, Detroit newspaper workers began a 19-month strike against Gannett, Knight-Ridder. The strike became a lockout, which lasted four more years. Today’s labor quote is by Pope Francis “A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness, and respect for every human being.”
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For today's labor news reports, go to dclabor.org, and for the latest local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1933, the Screen Actors Guild held its first meeting. Among those attending was future horror movie star and union activist Boris Karloff. Today’s labor quote is by American abolitionist, orator and lawyer Wendell Phillips "Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something." For today's labor news reports, go to dclabor.org, and for the latest local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1892, striking coal miners in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, dynamited barracks housing Pinkerton management thugs. In 1983, a nine-year strike, the longest in the history of the United Auto Workers, began at the Ohio Crankshaft Division of Park-Ohio Industries in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. Despite scabs, arrests and firings, UAW Local 91 members hung tough and in 1992 won a fair contract. Today’s labor quote is by writer George Orwell "The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about ’capitalist’ and ‘proletarian’ and a little more about the robbers and the robbed." For today's labor news reports, go to dclabor.org, and for the latest local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1842, the first anthracite coal strike in the United States took place. In 1862, labor organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor was born on Staten Island, New York. Among her activities: investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify for federal investigators the nightmarish working conditions that author Upton Sinclair had revealed in his novel "The Jungle." And in 1905, the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World -- also known as the I.W.W., or Wobblies -- concluded in Chicago. Charles O. Sherman, a former American Federation of Labor organizer, was elected president. Today’s labor quote is by IWW organizer Joseph Ettor "If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists." |
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