Today’s Labor Calendar
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Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM
2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.
Do Veterans Need a New Agenda in Washington? Mon, November 14, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
American Prospect, 1225 I St NW #600, Washington, DC xxxxxx, USA (map)
CLICK HERE to RSVP (Free)
DC/Baltimore Pride@Work meeting: Tue, November 15, 6pm – 7pm
The Union Pub located at 201 Massachusetts Ave., NE, 20002 (map) |
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WPFW's Your Rights At Work radio show: Labor’s helping hands, CLICK HERE to hear Letycia Pastrana, Executive Director of the Metro Washington Labor Council’s Community Services Agency on how CSA helps needy working families in the metro area.
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College Park MOM’s Organic Market workers file for union election
Workers at MOM’s Organic Market in College Park, MD last Thursday announced plans to unionize with United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400. The workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday. The College Park store is the third MOM’s Organic Market to file for a union election. An election date has yet to be determined by the NLRB. In August, workers at a Baltimore store in Hampden voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing with the Teamsters, and today, workers at the MOM’s Organic Market in Timonium will vote in a union election as well.
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Loudoun County transit workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike, if necessary, to win fair contract
ATU Local 689 members at Loudoun County Transit, employed by the private contractor Keolis, last week voted over 96% in favor of authorizing a strike, if necessary, to win a fair contract. “Keolis underbid this contract and thought they were going to profit off of underpaying these workers forever,” said Raymond Jackson, President and Business Agent for ATU Local 689. “Our members aren’t going to let that happen. They thought they could stop us with illegal threats, retaliation, and other union-busting tactics, but they were wrong. Keolis needs to get serious. Half measures aren’t going to cut it.”
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Labor Quote: John L. Lewis
The United Mine Workers of America President called a meeting on November 13, 1938, in Pittsburgh’s Islam Grotto, founding the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to “organize workers into a powerful industrial union.” |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: For Gene Debs. Last week’s show: Who belongs in the labor movement?
Founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions is held in Pittsburgh. It urges enactment of employer liability, compulsory education, uniform apprenticeship and child and convict labor laws. Five years later it changes its name to the American Federation of Labor – 1881
David Prosten
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