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.
Holiday Party and Book Talk featuring Dr. James Benton and his new publication "Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America": Wed, December 14, 4pm – 6pm
Arrupe Multi Purpose Room, 1575 Tondorf Rd; info: [email protected]
Pride at Work: Wed, December 14, 7:15pm – 8:15pm
CLICK HERE to hear last week's Your Rights At Work radio show: DC-area union members who door-knocked in Georgia to help elect Rev. Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate report: Amy Millar, UFCW/MCGEO 1994; Darlene Butler-Jones and Billy Osborn, UFCW 400.
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Rail workers vow to keep fighting for sick days, against corporate greed
Approximately 100 rail workers and their union and congressional allies vowed at a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday to continue fighting for paid sick leave, and, more broadly against corporate greed that denied it to them in the contract Congress imposed on them just days ago. Speakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., Postal Workers President Mark Dimondstein, Painters President Jimmy Williams and Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J.—who led the pro-sick days drive in the House—emphasized it was the railroad honchos who refused to bargain on sick days. Sanders particularly denounced their greed. “We’re going to create an economy that works for all, not just for Warren Buffett,” he said.
But it was 43 Republican senators who blocked the House-passed paid sick days bill, which Sanders pushed. “Congress was wrong to put their finger on the scale for these billion-dollar corporations and their CEOs,” said Dimondstein, referring to the contract, minus sick days, which lawmakers and Democratic President Joe Biden imposed, legally, on the workers. Read more here.
- Mark Gruenberg, PAI; photos by Chris Garlock/Union City |
New Wave of Harsh Sentences Slams Belarus Unions
Following a new wave of prison sentences against union leaders and other activists arrested earlier this year, new Belarus worker rights organization Salidarnast is tracking and disseminating updates on union political prisoners’ legal cases, and providing other worker rights news. “Despite the destruction of the independent trade union movement, workers in Belarus remain the force which can resist the dictatorship,” says Salidarnast. Find out more at Solidarity Center.
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Labor Quote: 12/13 Rail worker solidarity rally
“What do we want? Sick pay! When do we want it? Now!” |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Julia Reichert: “Documentarian of the Working Class”. Last week’s show: “Capital’s Terrorists”.
Daniel DeLeon, socialist scholar and labor organizer, born – 1852
Lillian Roberts arrested for organizing illegal strike by New York state employees; sentenced to 30 days but released after 11, on Christmas Eve. AFSCME ultimately won the strike -1968
Some 33,000 striking members of the Machinists end a 69-day walkout at Boeing after winning pay and benefit increases and protections against subcontracting some of their work overseas – 1995
David Prosten
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Hiring Hall: DC-area union jobs, plus click here for more listings! |
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Administrative
Receptionist, Metro Washington Labor Council AFL-CIO; click here for job description. Send résumé and cover letter to [email protected]
Assistant Accounting Manager – Accounting Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/9/2022) District of Columbia
Accounting Clerk III – Accounting Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/9/2022) District of Columbia
Office Assistant III – Federal Government Affairs, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/6/2022) District of Columbia
Communications
Communications Associate – Full-Time, ITLC, based in Silver Spring, MD (hybrid) (Posted: 12/8/2022) Maryland
Internships
Worker Health and Safety Intern; Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University; (This position is open to current Georgetown students only)
Misc
Development Coordinator – GiveGreen, LCV, based in Washington, DC (with travel) (Posted: 12/6/2022) District of Columbia
Membership Specialist, MSEA, based in Maryland (Posted: 12/9/2022) District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Educational Policy Specialist, MSEA, based in Maryland (Posted: 12/9/2022) District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Assistant Manager of Membership Services & Local Union Support Coordinator, SMART, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/13/2022) District of Columbia
Assistant Manager of Membership Services & Project Liaison, SMART, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/13/2022) District of Columbia
Human Resources Generalist, UFCW, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/13/2022) District of Columbia
Political Coordinator, UFCW, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 12/8/2022) District of Columbia
UniServ Director, MCEA, based in Rockville, MD (Posted: 12/12/2022) Maryland
Membership Specialist, MSEA, based in Maryland (Posted: 12/9/2022) District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Educational Policy Specialist, MSEA, based in Maryland (Posted: 12/9/2022) District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Executive Director, SEIU 500, based in Gaithersburg, MD (Posted: 12/9/2022) Maryland
Worker Health and Safety Trainer/Specialist (PT); Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University
Organizing
Organizer (FT): DC Jobs with Justice (12/13) |
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