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Honor Their Sacrifice: UVC Prepares the Labor Movement to Observe Memorial Day

Take action to support DCPS staff

Thai garment workers win historic $8.3 million financed by Victoria's Secret

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

 

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WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; [link removed] click here to hear today's report

Starbucks worker rally (Leesburg VA): Sat, May 28, 10am - 12pm
526 E Market St, Leesburg VA

Rally to protest Starbucks' union-busting.

[link removed] Kim Kelly -- Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor - with Sara Nelson: Sat, May 28, 5pm - 6pm
Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008

NOTE: MWC/CSA/CAP offices will be closed Monday for the Memorial Day federal holiday.

[link removed] Union vets on the line on this week's Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW 89.3FM. [link removed] Union Veterans Council Executive Director Will Attig on why he got arrested with fellow union vets at the Warrior Met strike. What the 1937 [link removed] Memorial Day Massacre has to tell us today, with Ahmed White, professor of law at the University of Colorado-Boulder and author of "The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America." And Harold Meyerson, Editor At Large at The American Prospect, on the [link removed] return of "law and order" to the NLRB.


"Respect Us! Pay Us!"

Concessions workers at Oriole Park at Camden Yards are fighting for better pay. They say they've been struggling to make ends meet over the last two seasons because of the pandemic and increases in the cost of living. Unite Here Local 7, which represents 300 concessions workers, held a rally outside the ballpark on Monday afternoon calling on the stadium's concessionaire, Delaware North, to boost pay. Read more [link removed] here, [link removed] here and [link removed] here.


Honor Their Sacrifice: UVC Prepares the Labor Movement to Observe Memorial Day

Memorial Day 2022 is quickly approaching, and to help unions and federated bodies prepare for this important holiday, the Union Veterans Council, AFL-CIO, (UVC) has created a communications toolkit. With more than 1 million active working military veterans in our movement, every union has members who have served in America's armed forces. While workers across the nation spend time celebrating with our family and friends, let us also take a moment to remember those who died in service to our country.


Post the following graphics on social media on Memorial Day (Monday, May 30):

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The UVC will collect and share videos highlighting the voices of union veterans and members. [link removed] Click here to record a short video and tell us why Memorial Day is important to you. Unions and federated bodies are also being urged to take part in community projects such as cleaning veterans' memorials and parks in their local area and laying a wreath.


Take action to support DCPS staff

Throughout the pandemic, reports DC Jobs with Justice, employees of District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) -- teachers, principals and support staff -- have worked tirelessly to ensure the education of our students continued. "These teachers, bus drivers, aides, and paraprofessionals have adapted quickly to support students at home, and have given everything to help DC students return to the classroom. And they have done all this without knowing the conditions of their future employment because they have yet to secure a contract with DCPS." The lack of a contract doesn't just hurt staff, but also students, "staff working conditions are student learning conditions." Send DCPS a message that they can no longer drag their feet: [link removed] signing the petition to Chancellor Ferebee, demanding a fair contract now!


Thai garment workers win historic $8.3 million financed by Victoria's Secret

Thai garment workers laid off in 2021 without receiving their legally mandated severance will receive $8.3 million in compensation financed by Victoria's Secret. The average garment worker received the equivalent of more than two years' wages and some received as much as four years' pay. The Solidarity Center and Worker Rights Consortium advocated for the agreement. "This is a huge victory for the workers and a testament to the courage of their union and the strength of the international solidarity campaign that supported them," said David Welsh, Solidarity Center Thailand country director. [link removed] Read more at Solidarity Center.


Today's Labor Quote: Tracy Lingo

"We love, love, love our fans. We love the Orioles. We want to be here at work, but we can't come and work for $12.50."

Tracy Lingo is a staff director with Unite Here Local 7.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Forced labour during the "Dirty Thirties"; Last week's show: [link removed] Blood, guts, and organizing.

May 27
The U.S. Supreme Court declares the Depression-era National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional, about a month before it was set to expire - 1935

May 28

Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia for dancing the Turkey Trot. They were on their lunch break, but management thought the dance too racy - 1912

At least 30,000 workers in Rochester, N.Y. participate in a general strike in support of municipal workers who had been fired for forming a union - 1946

May 29
Animators working for Walt Disney begin what was to become a successful five-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen Cartoonists' Guild. The animated feature "Dumbo" was being created at the time and, according to Wikipedia, a number of strikers are caricatured in the feature as clowns who go to "hit the big boss for a raise" - 1941

The United Farm Workers of America reaches agreement with Bruce Church Inc. on a contract for 450 lettuce harvesters, ending a 17-year-long boycott. The pact raised wages, provided company-paid health benefits to workers and their families, created a seniority system to deal with seasonal layoffs and recalls, and established a pesticide monitoring system - 1996

May 30

In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police open fire on striking steelworkers at Republic Steel in South Chicago, killing ten and wounding more than 160 - 1937

- David Prosten

 

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