After the DC City Council failed to act on paid family leave legislation last Tuesday, Joanna Blotner said that "We're disappointed but undeterred by the Council's inaction.” Blotner is the Paid Family Leave Campaign Manager for the coalition supporting family leave. “Chairman Mendelson has committed multiple times to passing paid leave this session so the delay simply provides us additional time to ensure we enact the most comprehensive legislation possible," Blotner added. DC is still on track to be the first city to create paid family and medical leave insurance. The proposed family-leave law would give paid time off to both new parents and adults caring for dying parents and significant others. It would also create a new citywide benefit of paid personal leave for workers’ own medical problems.
For the latest local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1883, the Brotherhood of Telegraphers began an unsuccessful 3-week strike against the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1919, some 35,000 Chicago stockyard workers struck. And in 1969, hospital workers won a 113-day union recognition strike in Charleston, South Carolina. Today’s labor quote is by AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka "There's no evil that's inflicted more pain and more suffering than racism - and it's something that we in the Labor Movement have a special responsibility to challenge. It's our special responsibility because we know, better than anyone else, how racism is used to divide working people. We've seen how companies set worker against worker - how they throw whites a few extra crumbs off the table - and how it's black and Latino workers who get the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs. But we've seen something else too. We've seen that when we cross that color line and stand together no one can keep us down."
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