The Letter Carriers’ 27th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is coming up on Saturday, May 11. The latest “State of the Unions” podcast features Christina Vela Davidson, Assistant to the President for Community Services at the Letter Carriers…
(audio) Tim Schlittner: Christina you’ve mentioned your situation growing up and how this is personal to you. Can you talk a little bit about what it’s like to be in a house where you’re not sure if you’re going to have enough money for food to just talk about the human impact of this drive? Christina Vela Davidson: Yeah. I grew up with seven sisters and three brothers and some of them were old enough that they were already going out of the house you know because they were grown. And I had a single mom, so my mom raised us...(emotional)...sorry. Tim Schlittner: It’s okay. Christina Vela Davidson: But she did everything she could to get us there. So one or two times we had to go to the food bank. I remember we would go to West Texas to work the fields and I remember us going to get food from the food bank and my mom...she brought back chips and a lot of blueberry yogurt and cheese and some potatoes and stuff. So you make what you get and we would have flour...you know we’d make tortillas and stuff like that...but growing up with a big family and stretching the food that you have...it makes you humble to what I have now. And I instill that in my children and let them know...they know how I grew up and how hard I’ve worked to get to where I am...so it keeps me on the straight line. And being a veteran also...everything happens for a reason...but I’m stronger now than ever.” Hear more from Christina on the State of the Unions podcast, available on your favorite podcast platform. On today’s labor calendar, tune in here at WPFW at 1 o’clock this afternoon for this week’s edition of “Your Rights At Work;” our guests this week include Katie Wells on ”The Uber Workplace in DC: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat?” And of course, get all the latest local labor events at dclabor.org; click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1912, West Virginia coal miners struck and defended themselves against the National Guard. Today’s labor quote is by Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. On this date in 1941, after a four-week boycott led by Rev. Powell, bus companies in New York City agreed to hire 200 Black drivers and mechanics. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who said: “A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re thinking about a spring road trip, don’t leave town without your Union Plus car rental savings! Union members save up to 25% on rental rates. Visit unionplus.org/carrental.
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