Over 200 Sodexo food service workers and other members of 32BJ SEIU at George Mason University have ratified their first-ever union contract.
Under the new 4-year agreement, employer contributions toward health insurance premiums will increase, hourly wages will increase to a range of $13 to $25 dollars, and for the first time, part-time employees will receive three paid holidays and workers who currently receive no paid breaks will be given 15 minute paid breaks. On today’s labor calendar, ATU Local 689 bus drivers in Lorton continue to picket Transdev daily; and tonight, the DC Nurses Association is hosting a Community Holiday Party for tots in Wards 7&8 at the Rise Demonstration Center; details at dclabor.org. click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1899, delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention in Salt Lake City endorsed a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. It would be another 20 years before the U.S. Congress passed the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. Today’s labor quote is by Beyonce, who said: "We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters earn more—commensurate with their qualifications and not their gen der. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re looking to continue your education in the new year, union members and their families can complete a Bachelor’s degree online at little cost with the Union Plus Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program. Visit unionplusfreecollege.org for details.
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“YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK”: TRUMP STACKS NLRB; CLIMATE CHANGE AND LABOR; ETHICAL HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE12/19/2019 Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. On today's show: Guests: Lynn Rhinehart: Three Republican-appointed white men are now deciding whether you have rights on the job Clint Sobratti; UFCW 1994 member, Montgomery County bus driver who spoke at Fire Drill Friday 12/13 Cherri Senders; Labor 411 Ethical Holiday Gift Guide “Case Closed” with Bob Samet, Ashcraft and Gerel Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Michael Nasella The cold, rain and fog on Tuesday didn't stop dozens of UFCW Local 400 members, leaders and local politicians from gathering in front of the Shoppers Food Warehouse on Martin Luther King Highway in Landover to protest the closing of local Shoppers Food stores by parent company UNFI.
“We’re here today,” said Local 400 president Mark Federici, “because somebody made a choice to turn their backs on hardworking families in the middle of the holidays. This is no way for UNFI to treat dedicated Shoppers employees." Federici called UNFI out for their "unbridled corporate greed.” Local 400 is partnering with the Metro Council's Community Services Agency and other Prince George's County agencies to organize a Resource Fair for the workers who are losing their jobs. On today’s labor calendar, ATU Local 689 bus drivers in Lorton continue to picket Transdev daily; details at dclabor.org. click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1983, a 47-day strike at Greyhound Bus Lines ended with members of the Amalgamated Transit Union accepting a new contract containing deep cuts in wages and benefits. Striker Ray Phillips died during the strike, run over on a picket line by a scab Greyhound trainee. Today’s labor quote is by Arthur Balfour, First Earl Of Balfour, who said: “The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re looking to continue your education in the new year, union members and their families can complete a Bachelor’s degree online at little cost with the Union Plus Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program. Visit unionplusfreecollege.org for details. (audio) “The distinction between socioeconomic and sociocultural is not that easy.”
That’s Cas Mudde (KAS MUDA), a political scientist from the University of Georgia. His new book, "The Far Right Today," takes a look at the resurgence of right-wing politicians and activists across the globe, much of it cloaked in populist, worker-friendly rhetoric. (audio) “The fact of the matter is that most people who vote for far-right parties think that they themselves do pretty well socioeconomically. But they believe that the country is not doing very well socioeconomically and that the future doesn’t look good. Now the question is that because they have analyzed the economic situation or is that because they hold nativist views in which they see immigrants and others as not productive?” Political scientist Cas Mudde (KAS MUDA), on State of the Unions, the AFL-CIO podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts. For the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1830, the trial of nearly 350 agricultural laborers in the “Swing Riots” got underway in England. Facing land enclosures and mechanization, farm workers rioted in the autumn of 1830, demanding higher wages, destroying machinery, and threatening landowners. Today’s labor quote is by Captain Swing, the fictitious name often signed to the threatening letters sent to farmers, magistrates, parsons, and others before and during the “Swing Riots” in England. The mythical Captain Swing was described as a hard-working tenant farmer driven to destitution and despair by social and political change in the early nineteenth century. Captain Swing, who said: “Sir, This is to acquaint you that if your threshing machines are not destroyed by you directly we shall commence our labours.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you hoping to continue your education in the new year? Complete your Bachelor’s degree online at little cost with the Union Plus Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program. The program is available to union members and families. Visit unionplusfreecollege.org. |
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