Union-busters work most effectively in secrecy, when workers don’t know the anti-union campaign is being run by high-priced legal guns-for-hire. That’s why the Obama Labor Department last year issued a union-buster transparency rule, officially known as the “persuader rule,” designed to increase disclosure requirements for consultants and attorneys hired by companies to try to persuade working people against coming together in a union. The Trump Labor Department is now trying to rescind the rule and restore the cloak of secrecy to union-busters. To tell the Labor Department that we should be doing more to ensure the freedom of working people to join together in a union, not less, go to dclabor.org and click on our story on this issue.
For this week’s labor calendar, go to dclabor.org, and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1894, members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refused to handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers. Two dozen strikers were killed over the course of the strike. Today’s labor quote is by Eugene Debs Eugene Victor Debs, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States, who said “There can be no defeat for the labor movement.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org.
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