Union City – the Metro Council’s popular electronic newsletter -- has won its fifth award from the International Labor Communications Association, winning first place for “General Excellence" in the Electronic Newsletter category for 2015. The Metro Council’s newsletter joins UFCW Local 400’s “Union Leader” magazine and social media -- which won an impressive five awards -- as the only local publications to win awards this year. The winners “represent some of the best and most inspired work in labor communications and are to be congratulated in promoting the highest standards of labor journalism,” said ILCA.
Amalgamated Bank recently announced it will raise all employee wages to a minimum of $15 an hour, effective immediately. Amalgamated – which maintains a branch in Washington, DC -- called on the banking industry to follow its lead. “As one of the highest grossing industries, it is simply unacceptable that a significant portion of bank workers rely on public assistance,” said Amalgamated Bank CEO Keith Mestrich. For more details go to dclabor.org; for the latest local labor events, click on calendar. Here’s today’s labor history: In the IWW War Trials in Chicago on this date in 1918, 95 went to prison for up to 20 years. And in 1985, a year-long Hormel meatpackers' strike began in Austin, Minnesota. Today’s labor quote is by civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, Sr., speaking at a union meeting during the meatpackers strike: “Workers must stand up and say enough is enough. We want jobs and justice!"
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