Could 05, 2023
Older Individuals Month Begins with Could Day
Monday, Could 1 was not solely the primary day of Older Individuals Month, it was additionally Could Day, (Worldwide Staff’ Day). All through Could, Alliance members throughout the nation are celebrating seniors’ contributions to the nation and utilizing the event to acknowledge the facility of older adults to affect our communities. President Biden has issued a proclamation in honor of Older Individuals Month.
Could Day is a time to have fun all employees and the efforts of commerce unions and the labor motion. It’s also a day of remembrance, because it honors the employees who died in the course of the Haymarket affair bombing in 1886 in Chicago whereas protesting for an eight-hour workday.
Members of the Texas Alliance (TARA), Younger Lively Labor Leaders and different activists marked the day by picketing at Starbucks shops throughout the Dallas metro space. Their indicators referred to as for greater wages, the liberty to affix a union and different employees’ rights.
TARA members pioneered the “flying pickets” tactic at a string of Starbucks, going from one store to a different and quietly leafleting the workers and clients earlier than picketing on the sidewalk outdoors.
“Worldwide Staff’ Day is an opportunity to advertise the change we’d like,” stated Joseph Peters, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer of the Alliance. “Legislatively, the perfect factor we are able to do as a nation in partnership with native motion is to induce Congress to go the PRO Act, launched by Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Bobby Scott (D-VA) within the U.S. Home as H.R. 20 and by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) within the Senate as S. 567. It should make it simpler to affix or kind a union, and which means higher wages, well being care, pensions and retirement safety.”
