Ontario International Airport (ONT) Alaska Airlines AFA Workers on the picket line for Worldwide Solidarity Picket
February 13, 2024
Inland Empire Labor Council | By Frankie Aguilar
February 20, 2024
We greatly appreciate your submissions to our first IELC Newsletter. Our goal is to include local events, resources, career listings and programs, potential grant opportunities, and news that are pertinent to our local unions and community members.
If you would like to submit to our March Newsletter, please email relevant information, flyers, and links to Communications@ielabor.org. The deadline to submit is the Wednesday following our delegate meeting, March 13, 2024 by end of day.
Resources
California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship (COYA) GrantPlanning Grants
Notice of Intent due March 1, 2024
Proposals due March 15, 2024
The California Opportunity Youth Apprenticeship (COYA) Grant is a new funding source to develop and test innovative practices to increase the participation of opportunity youth in pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs, and to demonstrate the impact of apprenticeship on employment and earnings outcomes for opportunity youth.Pre-Apprenticeship Grants up to $300,000Apprenticeship, Grants up to $500,000
Implementation Grants : Pre-Apprenticeship Grants up to $500,000 – $2,000,000
Thursday, February 22, 2024
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
“Wage and Hour, Overtime, and Breaks”
English & Spanish Training Session
CWOP is inviting people to join a presentation on Thursday with LCO expert Deputy Labor Commissioner Mabel Martinez. The presentation will cover the latest information on “Wage and Hour, Overtime, and Breaks”. Details of the Spanish training session can be found in the Spanish section of this newsletter.
KVCR Public Media – 701 S Mt. Vernon Ave,
Thursday, February 22, 2024
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Women and the Labor Movement
Documentary Screening
Celebrate the women who have made significant strides for gender equality in the workplace. This event marks the inaugural gathering of our CYD Labor Caucus in the IE, and we’re proud to co-host it with our newly established Inland Empire chapter.
KVCR Public Media – 701 S Mt. Vernon Ave,
San Bernardino, CA
Sunday – Tuesday
March 17, 2024 – March 19, 2024
LABOR’S 2024 JOINT LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE
California Labor Federation and State Building & Construction Trades Council
Learn how unions have used legislation to organize and win good contracts, learn about new tools to lobby on bills and create successful campaigns, and cheer on our 100%er legislators who stood with workers on every vote.
Sheraton Grand, Sacramento – Conference Registration Fee $175 *Hotel stay not included*
Career Opportunities & Apprenticeships
Program applications open for UAW Region 6 Organizer Training
The training will be a three month full-time paid internship. Participants will receive in-person and remote training alongside other members of a cohort. Participants will also be placed on worker-led campaigns in California, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, or Nevada, in order to receive hands-on experience. The industries will range from auto, to research, to higher education.
The deadline to apply is March 22nd
8 Weeks
June 3, 2024 – July 24, 2024
Applications open for Paid Union Scholars Program
This is a paid 8-week summer internship to participate in a union organizing campaign across the US (June 3-July 24). Participants will receive a stipend of $4,800, and an academic scholarship of $6,000 for the following school year, based on completion of the Program and financial need. This requires a week-long orientation and training on Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, MA. Participants must be a College Sophomore or Junior from historically marginalized communities.
Apply by February 28, 2024
Starts Fall 2024
Duration 3-12 Month
Applications are now OPEN for PAID apprenticeship program
Women Innovating Labor Leadership (WILL)
Women Innovating Labor Leadership is a multi-pronged initiative designed to identify, nurture, and train a new generation of women and non-binary people’s labor leadership. The WILL Empower apprentices may work in a variety of capacities, including organizing, research, communications, politics, mobilization, and policy. Apprentices benefit from a formal mentorship program, with mentors both within and outside of the host organization, and participate in a WILL Empower training and gathering in September.
Apply by April 30, 2024
Union Updates & Events
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
4:00-6:30 pm
CWA District 9 IELC Virtual Phone Bank for Will Rollins CD 41
This is a virtual event – Join Zoom
Volunteer to help “Get Out The Vote” for our CWA D9 Endorsed Candidate for Congressional District 41 Will Rollins. All you will need to join is a computer and phone This win will be vital to win a Labor Friendly Majority in the House.
For more details contact Yvonne Melton at 562-201-4156 or Janet Fields 562-810-3053
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Starts at 9:00 AM
IBEW #440 16th Annual
Golf Tournament
The goal of this event is to raise funds to aid our members in their time of need. Tickets must be purchased beforehand and contact IBEW #440 Lead Organizer Bernie Balland at (951) 232-2458
or by email at Bernie@IBEW440.org.
Buy Tickets
Morongo Golf Club at Tukwet Canyon
36211 Champions Dr, Beaumont, CA 92223
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION HEARING
AT&T’s Applications for Targeted Relief from its Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) Obligation and Relinquish its Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Designation
In this application, AT&T requests to be relieved of its Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) obligations in certain areas of California. If approved, it would no longer be required to offer landline telephone service where it is currently required to offer Basic Service in those areas. Basic Service includes nine service elements such as Lifeline rates for eligible customers, free access to 9-1-1, Telephone Relay Service, and directory and operator services. An area without a COLR could mean that there would be no landline telephone company serving that area and that there could possibly be no landline telephone access for customers in that area.
March 14, 2024, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Fact Sheet
Indio City Hall Council Chambers
100 Civic Center Mall, Indio, CA 92201
Features
All Labor has Dignity | A brief history of workers, Martin Luther King Jr., and AFSCME
#BlackHistoryMonth
Photos by: Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs
When two sanitation workers were killed by a malfunctioning garbage truck in Memphis , the city’s public works employees members of AFSCME went on strike on Feb 12, 1968.
“We came up with the sign that simply said, in four words, ‘I Am a Man.’ It was the shortest phrase that we could get that would instill in them a sense of pride, not just for what they had done but what they were doing to try to change the system.” It became a rallying cry for the workers and a turning point in the strike.
King declared, “all labor has dignity” and made Memphis part of his Poor People’s Campaign to take impoverished people to the nation’s capitol to demand that Congress shift war spending to address health care, jobs, housing, education, and other human needs.”
