As The Baltimore Sun‘s newsroom heads toward negotiations with management over a new contract, staffers -- members of the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild -- went on social media earlier this week to highlight one of their top priorities: pay raises. Reporters posted pictures holding green balloons with an upward-pointing arrow and the words “Rai$e Our Pay Now.” In a couple photos, the balloons appeared to be tied to nearly every desk in the paper’s Port Covington newsroom.
“I’m making the same pay as I did four years ago, despite increased responsibility, a more visible beat and continually improving my skills as a journalist,” wrote reporter Pamela Wood on Twitter. On the weekend labor calendar, you’ve got two chances to catch screenings of “The Corporate Coup D’état” today and tomorrow at FilmFest DC. Director Fred Peabody, Executive Producer Jeff Cohen and The Intercept investigative journalist Lee Fang will be at both screenings to discuss how corporations are taking over democracy. And find out more about the ongoing DC Healthcare Crisis at a Townhall tomorrow, organized by DC Jobs with Justice. Complete details, as always, at dclabor.org; click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1944, on the orders of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Army seized the Chicago headquarters of the unionized Montgomery Ward after management defied the National Labor Relations Board. Today’s labor quote is from “Bread and Roses,” the poem by James Oppenheim, published in the IWW newspaper Industrial Solidarity on April 27, 1911, and performed here by Queen Cee: As we go marching, marching We bring the greater days For the rising of the women Means the rising of the race No more the drudge and idler Ten that toil where one reposes But the sharing of life's glories Bread and roses, bread and roses Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re looking for ways to cut costs on medical expenses, check out the Union Plus Health Savings Program. Learn how you can save on vision, dental and prescription out-of-pocket expenses at unionplus.org/healthsavings.
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