(audio) “Construction is inherently dangerous. anything could happen in any time.”
That’s Steve Courtien, President/Executive Director of the Baltimore-DC Building Trades Council, which represents all the construction local unions in DC, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia, with over 24,000 members in 22 locals. I talked to him recently about how building trades workers are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. “We're getting a lot of members who are concerned about, you know, am I going to have a job tomorrow. And then secondary is like, okay, well how can I make sure I'm safe and that I'm working safe on the project? So we're trying to really just make sure that the members understand how to work safely on the project, just like we always do, just with a new threat. Where before it was about falling or, you know, overhead accident, things like that. Now we're just really trying to enforce with them about protecting themselves with the social distancing and keeping your hands washed, you know, wearing gloves, all those things are just starting to get put into their, you know, their toolbox of safety.” Steve Courtien, President/Executive Director of the Baltimore-DC Building Trades Council. On today’s labor calendar, tune in at 1 o’clock this afternoon here on WPFW for this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work, DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1923, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a 1918 Washington, D.C. law establishing a minimum wage for women. Today’s labor quote is from “Look for the Union Label”; the Union Label Department was chartered by the American Federation of Labor on this date in 1909: Look for the union label when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse. Remember somewhere our union's sewing, our wages going to feed the kids, and run the house. We work hard, but who's complaining? Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way! So always look for the union label, it says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.! Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus, which stands up for union members and their families. At unionplus.org you’ll find useful links to coronavirus resources from the AFL-CIO, as well as Union Plus Hardship Help Benefits. Check it out at unionplus.org
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