DC Jobs with Justice is coordinating a tweetstorm today from 9am to 12 noon to lift up the needs of excluded workers. These are folks like care workers for both children and the elderly, restaurant workers and street vendors. Without cash assistance, excluded workers are at risk of homelessness and the devastating impacts of deepened poverty. Jobs with Justice and their allies are calling on the DC City Council to expand funds to support excluded workers' economic security. Retweet them @DCJWJ and use the hashtag #dontexcludeme
In today’s labor history, on this date in 1941, animators working for Walt Disney began what was to become a successful five-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen Cartoonists' Guild. Today’s labor quote is by Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers of America, which on this date in 1996 reached agreement with Bruce Church on a contract for 450 lettuce harvesters, ending a 17-year-long boycott. The pact raised wages, provided company-paid health benefits to workers and their families, created a seniority system to deal with seasonal layoffs and recalls, and established a pesticide monitoring system. Cesar Chavez, who said “The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, we could all use a little more cash right now. If you’re buying a new home or selling your current one (or both), earn $500 cash back for every $100,000 in home value when you use the Union Plus Real Estate Rewards program. Get the details at UnionPlus.org This is the final week of WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; you can support Union City Radio and all the great programs here on WPFW by calling 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online at wpfwfm.org, click on Donate Now. You can also give on your phone by using WPFW's CashApp account, just search for $WPFW. Thanks very much!
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DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith This week's guests: TEFERE GEBRE, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO, on the June 3 Workers First Caravan JONATHAN WILLIAMS, Communications Director, UFCW 400, on his union’s calls on Giant to extend “recognition pay” until the COVID-19 crisis is over ELIZABETH FALCON, Executive Director, DC Jobs with Justice, on tomorrow’s DC Excluded Workers Social Media Blitz Music: Heroes (We Could Be); Alesso remix Produced by Chris Garlock; engineering by Jerry Paris and Shepsu Baker (audio) We will keep the lights on in Las Vegas. Our community needs us. They need to see the big white truck
That’s Shannon Skinner, a utility worker in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she works for NV Energy, and is the president of IBEW 396. (audio) The only people that are in the field are our union members, our front line people. I think the key is to keep our members safe and the anxiety out of their lives, because it's a lot. We all have dangerous jobs on the power line and then it's dangerous enough as it is. But now to try to keep your guys' minds on task with all this stuff going on in the world is a little bit extra. We’ve actually had OSHA taking pictures of us, and I have to say, I have to brag on my crew; 'cause we're in this together. We decided to be in this together, we're doing the long haul and it makes me pretty proud and I, and another thing is I'm glad that everybody's working together. Shannon Skinner, a utility worker in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she’s also the president of IBEW 396. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1946, at least 30,000 workers in my hometown of Rochester, N.Y., participated in a general strike in support of municipal workers who had been fired for forming a union. Today’s labor quote is by Josephine Shaw Lowell, a 19th century Progressive Reform leader best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. Josephine Shaw Lowell, who said: ”If the working people had all they ought to have, we should not have the paupers and criminals. It is better to save them before they go under, than to spend your life fishing them out afterward. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you're caring for an aging parent, get the legal assistance you need for estate planning with Union Plus MetLife Legal Plans. Details at UnionPlus.org This is the final week of WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; you can support Union City Radio and all the great programs here on WPFW by calling 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online at wpfwfm.org, click on Donate Now. You can also give on your phone by using WPFW's CashApp account, just search for $WPFW. Thanks very much! (audio) You walk inside this home, and it's, it's the weirdest feeling in the world. You think you're walking into this like minefield, you don't know if there's little ticking time bomb everywhere.
That’s Jessica, a utility worker in Detroit, on a conference call last week with utility and communication union leaders about the effects of the pandemic… (audio) In the beginning, one of the first gas leaks that I had, it was a young couple with a child, and every time the furnace kicked on, it was just spewing out natural gas. And of course, that utility room was right next to the child's room, and I feel so terrible because I'm, I'm literally about to shut off their furnace. And I walk out to my truck to write up a tag and as I'm walking back to the house, I hear screaming. I walk in and I'm all nervous, and the husband said, my wife just got a phone call that her father had just passed away of COVID-19 and she's on the floor crying and now the kid is out of the crib, he is screaming and he's running towards me and I'm a mom. And you know, any kid that runs towards you just kinda like want to pick up and say, Hey, it's okay. And I don't know if this child's been exposed. I don't know if I've been exposed, will I give it to the child. And I literally, um, I gave them a tag, you know, wish them the best of luck, made sure they were safe. And I went and drove to a nearby parking lot and I probably sat there for about a half hour, 45 minutes. just thinking about what's going on in this world right now? What, what is going on? It was pretty crazy. Jessica, a utility worker in Detroit. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, about a month before it was set to expire. Congress passed the law in 1933, authorizing the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices to stimulate economic recovery during the Great Depression. Today’s labor quote is by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after signing the National Industrial Recovery Act into law in 1933: "Must we go on in many groping, disorganized, separate units to defeat or shall we move as one great team to victory?" Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, many families are being hit with increased financial burdens. For those struggling with their credit, the Union Plus Credit Counseling program is still operating online and over the phone. Visit unionplus.org/creditcounseling to find out more. This is the final week of WPFW’s Spring Pledge Drive; you can support Union City Radio and all the great programs here on WPFW by calling 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online at wpfwfm.org, click on Donate Now. You can also give on your phone by using WPFW's CashApp account, just search for $WPFW. Thanks very much! |
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