Following the AFL-CIO’s first National Summit on Raising Wages last week, the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO and the metro-area labor movement will launch a campaign later this year aimed at creating an economy that works for everyone. “The National Summit on Raising Wages laid clear the challenges – but more importantly, the opportunities – facing DC-area families,” said Metro Washington Council President Jos Williams. “Allies united behind the idea of a Raising Wages Agenda have come together in a collective voice, and are ready to get to work,” Williams said.
Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1883, the United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect In 1920, thousands of Palmer Raids detainees – many of them union organizers -- won the right to meet with lawyers and have legal representation at deportation hearings. Today’s labor quote is from a 1955 ad in Boston newspapers protesting strikebreakers hiring practices by Colonial Provision Company and Boston Sausage Company: “What kind of job is it where you take the bread and butter off a fellow workers table? Colonial is getting its few strikebreakers by paying Judas money to a few know-nothings to bring in their friends. Tell them you don’t want their dirty thirty pieces of silver.”
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