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Labor steps up ground game as Maryland primary comes down to wire

Tag @dclabor tomorrow!

Labor's Candidates: Perez & Patterson

Kim Mitchell: "The Future We Need"

Buy coffee, support the Starbucks organizing campaign

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Today's Labor History

 

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[link removed] MD Primary Labor Phonebanks: Jul 18 - 19, 2022

Monday, 7/18/22 - 10am, 2pm, and 6pm; Tuesday, 7/19/22 - 10am, 2pm, and 6pm

Wednesdays with Warner for the PRO Act: Wed, July 20, 8:15am - 9:15am

Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria VA ([link removed] map)

[link removed] Endorsement Interview with VA CD 1 Candidate Herb Jones: Wed, July 20, 12pm - 1pm
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The Vision of a Green New Deal: Wed, July 20, 3pm - 4pm

DC Jobs with Justice: Join us and [link removed] Green New Deal for DC next Wednesday July 20th at 3pm for a Virtual Webinar on DC's climate proposals. [link removed] RSVP here.

DC Rally to Support Senate Cafeteria Workers (Unite Here 23): Wed, July 20, 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Park across the street from the Dirksen Senate Office Building, 50 Constitution Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002, USA ([link removed] map)

UFCW 400 "Save Our Benefits" Rally: Wed, July 20, 4:45pm - 6:00pm

SHOPPERS Largo, 806 Largo Center Dr, Largo, MD 20774, USA ([link removed] map)

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, July 21, 1pm - 2pm

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Baltimore Labor Council meeting: Thu, July 21, 7pm - 9pm
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[link removed] NoVA Labor monthly meeting: Thu, July 21, 7pm - 9pm

Labor steps up ground game as Maryland primary comes down to wire


"I can't say it enough: Thank you, thank you, thank you," Prince George's County Council District 7 candidate Krystal Oriadha told the crowd assembled at ATU 689 on Saturday for the final labor-to-labor canvass before Tuesday's primary. "Know that every door you knock on, every person that you talk to, you're not talking to them for myself or for Donna, Aisha, Brooke or any of the other candidates endorsed by labor. You're talking to them for yourself, because what you know is that we are gonna stand with you when elected." Standing with Brooke Lierman (MD Comptroller candidate), Aisha Braveboy (State's Attorney) and Oriadha, along with MWC president Dyana Forester and COPE Co-Chair Sam Epps, Congresswoman Donna Edwards (CD 4) agreed, saying that "none of us would be standing here without you. The votes that you will turn for all of us who are endorsed by organized labor means a state leadership in Maryland that doesn't have to dance around providing project labor agreements and enforcing prevailing wage on the federal resources that are coming into this state. We want to go to Capitol Hill and fight for raising that minimum wage, fight to make sure that all Americans have healthcare, fight to make sure that we bring resources back to this state and around the country that are going to support working people." Local unions participating in Saturday's canvass included SEIU 1199, UNITE HERE Local 25, ATU Local 689, Painters DC 51 and UFCW 400.


Also on Saturday morning, Maryland gubernatorial candidate Tom Perez joined other labor-endorsed candidates like MontCo County Executive Marc Elrich to kick off the UFCW 1994/SEIU 500/SEIU 32BJ labor canvass in Montgomery County, tweeting "Like my old boss Ted Kennedy used to say: `How do you spell middle class? U-N-I-O-N!' Incredible to be back in Gaithersburg this morning with @SEIULocal500, @32BJSEIU, @MDDCStateFed, @UFCW1994 and so many #GetStuffDone Democrats. Folks, we can win this. Onward!"

- report by Chris Garlock; photos by Garlock and UFCW 1994.

Tag @dclabor tomorrow!

Show your support for labor endorsed candidates in tomorrow's Maryland primary -- for more information on voting, please visit the [link removed] Maryland State Board of Elections -- by taking photos at the polls and on doors. Tag us at @DCLabor, along with your union and use the hashtag #metrolaborvotes when you post on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. [link removed] Click here for the Maryland State AFL-CIO Endorsement List.


Labor's Candidates: Perez & Patterson

Governor: Tom Perez

"We have a great opportunity this election to elect Maryland's most pro-worker governor in decades. We must do what we can to support candidates who will support working families in the County Councils, State Legislature and in Congress." (UFCW 1994)

Charles County Council (District 4): Ralph Patterson

"Organized labor has always been an advocate for middle class workers and families. As a member of the National Education Association / Teachers Union I have seen firsthand the benefit of organized labor in improving the overall work conditions in my career field. I will always advocate and support the right of any person(s) to participate in or seek to form a union to improve the working conditions of their workers."

Kim Mitchell: "The Future We Need"

"I remember going to a fast food restaurant and the manager told me that he wouldn't hire me because I had braids in my hair." Kimberly Mitchell works at Macy's at 12th and G, and she's a shop steward for UFCW Local 400. Her story is featured in "[link removed] The Future We Need," a new book by Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta, the current and former Executive Director of Jobs with Justice. Union City caught up with Kim at last week's book launch celebrating Jobs with Justice's 35th anniversary. "You know, it's not the union, it's the employees, they are the union," she said. "Those same people who were scared about me saying something or doing something, those are the ones now speaking up for the other associates. And I'm like, Yes!" Listen to Kim on today'shttps://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t9ep6-1270720 Union City Radio.


Buy coffee, support the Starbucks organizing campaign

Almost 200 Starbucks stores have now voted to unionize, including 13 in Virginia, "but the workers need labor and community support to get CEO Howard Schultz and Board Chair Mellody Hobson to the bargaining table!" reports NoVA Labor's Virginia Diamond. Sign and circulate [link removed] this pledge and visit the unionized stores below and tell the workers you support them and have their backs (order your drink with the name Union Strong and leave a nice cash tip): Cascades Marketplace - 21000 Southbank Street, Sterling; Gallows & Gatehouse - 3046 Gatehouse Plaza, Falls Church; Leesburg Plaza - 526 E Market St, Leesburg; Carytown- 3555 W Cary St, Richmond; Huguenot Village - 2059 Huguenot Road, Richmond; Carmia Way - 11136 Midlothian Turnpike, N. Chesterfield; Forest Hills & Cherokee - 6980 Forest Hill Ave, Richmond; Westchester Commons - 15605 WC Commons Way, Midlothian; Willow Lawn - 1601 Willow Lawn Drive, Richmond; Arthur Ashe Blvd & Myers - 1017 N Boulevard, Richmond; Oyster Point - 340 Oyster Point Rd, Newport News; Farmville - 2003 S. Main St, Farmville; The Bridges - 8 Old Whitmore Ave. Roanoke.


Labor Quote: Anthony Romero

"We're not just doing this just to put paper on people's doors. We're in the business of helping people and it's nice to see that the people we're endorsing are actually getting through. It uplifts me because I'm like, yes, this is great, one more person for our candidates."

UNITE HERE 25's Anthony Romero, at last Saturday's labor-to-labor canvass in Prince George's County. photo by Chris Garlock.

Labor on the Air: On last week's [link removed] Your Rights At Work radio show (WPFW 89.3FM Thursdays at 1p): Back To The Way Things Were; Velina Brown, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's new live musical,[link removed] Back To The Way Things Were, playing free in San Francisco parks through Labor Day. [link removed] CLICK HERE to listen or search for Your Rights At Work wherever you listen to podcasts![link removed]


TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Tragedy and Resistance at Port Chicago Naval Magazine (Encore); Last week's show: [link removed] "The Port of Missing Men"

July 18

The Brotherhood of Telegraphers begins an unsuccessful three-week strike against the Western Union Telegraph Co - 1883

35,000 Chicago stockyard workers strike - 1919

Hospital workers win 113-day union recognition strike in Charleston, S.C. - 1969

July 19
Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Delegates adopt a Declaration of Women's Rights and call for women's suffrage - 1848

An amendment to the 1939 Hatch Act, a federal law whose main provision prohibits federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity, is amended to also cover state and local employees whose salaries include any federal funds - 1940

- David Prosten

 

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