Local food service workers have been among the hardest-hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anthony Randolph is a longtime food service worker and a member of UNITE HERE Local 23 who’s been a leader in organizing his fellow workers, especially in response to the pandemic. WPFW reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns caught up with Anthony earlier this week…
(audio) During this crisis, we are actually reaching out to all the food service contractors such as Sodexo, a competence, Aramark asking them to continue paying into their medical and to the pension contribution. And at the same time, we reaching out to the client, which is at the university level, like at Howard, or at American university or at Georgetown university, asking them to support us as well, because at the end of the day, the workers didn't ask for it and at the same time, these corporations are getting all kinds of subsidies, so we're like, they're not losing, it's the hourly employees that's losing. Anthony Randolph, a longtime food service worker and a member of UNITE HERE Local 23. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1999, the Longshoremen’s Union halted shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia journalist whom many believed was on death row because he was an outspoken African-American. Today’s labor quote is by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who said: “Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.” 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.
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