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"Eyepopping" unionbusting at Starbucks
Labor Photo: 2022 Building Futures class (& friends)
MD/DC State Fed's Donna Edwards wins second "Top 100 Women" award
Your local's name in lights!
16th Shoot for a Cure coming up Wednesday
Union Voice/Readers Write: Endorsements?
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
DC Labor History Walk: Sat, June 4, 10am - 1pm
$15 per person; all proceeds benefit MWC's Community Services Agency's Emergency Assistance Fund. [link removed] CLICK HERE to order!
Meet at AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW (Black Lives Matter Plaza), Washington, DC
[link removed] Fairfax NAACP/ NoVA Labor Job Fair: Sat, June 4, 11am - 2pm
Sponsored by Fairfax County NAACP/ NoVA Labor/ OAR/ Fairfax County Public Schools
Partners include IBEW Local 26, Carpenters Local 197, Mid-Atlantic Pipe Trades, Steamfitters 602, Plumbers Local 5, Helmets to Hardhats
Pride at Work Annual LGBTQ+ and Allies Picnic: Sun, June 5, 12pm - 3pm
Jones Point Park, Alexandria, VA Bring food and drink to share and a blanket or chair to sit on. We will play games, shoot some hoops, admire the Potomac River, fish off the Union Sportsperson's pier, and enjoy scenic views of DC and Maryland. For more info, contact G Nicholson at 540-219-2165.
LISTEN to this week's [link removed] YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK radio show: The [link removed] Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls is coming up on June 18 and has a lot of labor support; Roz Pelles and David Mott discuss the demand for a living wage, affordable health care, housing and a democracy that guarantees dignity and respect for all. Plus labor news headlines, including [link removed] Starbucks Is the Country's Worst Labor Law Violator, [link removed] Carvana cuts 12% of their workforce over email and Zoom, and [link removed] CEO-Worker Pay Gap Widens--And Employees Aren't Happy About It.
"Eyepopping" unionbusting at Starbucks
There are currently 100 unionized Starbucks across the country, and hundreds more where workers have filed union petitions. Much of the DC-area activity has been in Virginia, where nine Starbucks have already voted in unions despite aggressive union-busting by the company. The extent of Starbucks's law-breaking is truly eye-popping, according to a [link removed] recent report in Jacobin, which said that the National Labor Relations Board now has a stunning 128 open Starbucks-related unfair labor practice cases, which are spread across twenty NLRB regions in nineteen states. Undeterred, Starbucks workers continue to organize, and baristas at the Leesburg (VA) Plaza Starbucks held a two-day strike recently after Starbucks cut their hours to retaliate against unionizing. Just this week, three Maryland Starbucks organized in Bel Air, Nottingham and Stevensville.
Labor Photos: 2022 Building Futures class (& friends)
Some of the Spring 2022 graduating class (top) at the Community Services Agency's Building Futures Pre-Apprenticeship Program, with Ashley Williams, Associate Director Department of Employment Services (DOES), Kenneth Walker (DOES), Dr. Gloria Cain, Assist. Professor at Howard University, Dianna Guinard, COO of UPO and Mark Kowai (UPO) (bottom photo).
MD/DC State Fed's Donna Edwards wins second "Top 100 Women" award
Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO president Donna Edwards has been named one of the Daily Record's [link removed] Top 100 Women of Maryland for 2022 for her advocacy and work on behalf of the unions and working families of Maryland and the District of Columbia. "I have been a social worker and a labor leader my entire career," said Edwards. "I know every day I have made life better for someone. It is wonderful and a blessing to get to live and work my values all day every day. I am truly joyful." Edwards also won in 2018.
Your local's name in lights!
"Let us recognize and celebrate your local on the field during pregame ceremonies for this year's Labor Night at the Nats!" says MWC Community Services Agency Executive Director Letycia Pastrana. "The Washington Nationals love to honor the accomplishments of their partner charities, groups and organizations," Pastrana explains. The 2022 Labor Night at the Nats is set for Friday, June 10, when the Nats will play the Milwaukee Brewers.[link removed] Click here to purchase tickets -- $2 of each ticket benefits CSA's Emergency Assistance Fund -- or for group sales, call Josh Grohs at 202-640-7714 or email
[email protected]. "Thanks to everyone who's already stepped up," added Pastrana, "including the individual donors and smaller groups who support the work we do to help union members and workers during times of hardship."
16th Shoot for a Cure coming up Wednesday
The 16th annual Shoot for a Cure - hosted by UFCW Locals 27 & 400 and sponsored by OPEIU 277/American Income - is set for next Wednesday, June 8, at The Point at Pintail in Queenstown, MD. The event, which includes 100 Fun Targets, Individual Buckles, Team Plaques, Shooting Games, BBQ and a raffle, raises funds - this year's goal is $70,000 -- for The March of Dimes to end birth defects and other childhood afflictions. Click here to download a registration flyer. More info: mailto:
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Union Voice/Readers Write: Endorsements?
"Is there a list of AFL-CIO Metro Washington Labor Council endorsements for this cycle I can reference?" asks Hayden.
Absolutely! [link removed] Click here.
Today's Labor Quote: John Logan
"There's a new kid on the block that deserves the `worst worker rights violator' title: Starbucks."
John Logan is director of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University; this is from his Jacobin column [link removed] Starbucks Is the Country's Worst Labor Law Violator. Joe Biden Should Rein It Inhttps://jacobin.com/2022/05/starbucks-nlrb-biden-illegal-union-busting .
TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] The Memorial Day Massacre; Last week's show: [link removed] Forced labour during the "Dirty Thirties".
June 3
International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded - 1900
A Federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, was declared unconstitutional - 1918
June 4
The House of Representatives approves the Taft-Hartley Act. The legislation allows the President of the United States to intervene in labor disputes. President Truman vetoed the law but was overridden by Congress - 1947
The AFL-CIO opens its new headquarters building, in view of the White House - 1956
photo: 2020 Black Lives Matter protest with AFL-CIO headquarters in background. photo by Chris Garlock/Union City
Gov. Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights. The legislation came after years of effort by the United Farm Workers union - 1975
June 5
Thirty-five members of the Teamsters, concerned about the infiltration of organized crime in the union and other issues, meet in Cleveland to form Teamsters for a Democratic Union - 1976
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