Happy Pride Month!

Happy Pride Month! June is a time to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community and to work toward a future free from hate, discrimination and intolerance.

Pride at Work, Baltimore/DC Chapter advocates for LGBTQIA+ worker rights all year long, including through inclusive Collective Bargaining Agreements, increasing LGBTQIA+ representation in unions and apprenticeships, and providing inclusivity training and workshops. Join Pride at Work to build LGBTQIA+ worker power! PrideAtWork.org/join

Endorsed DC Councilmembers win their primary elections

Yesterday was Election Day in DC and the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO's endorsed candidates Janeese Lewis George and Robert White both won their primaries and will proceed to the general election in November.

Affiliates 1199SEIU, 32BJ SEIU, Washington Teachers' Union, and UNITE HERE Local 25 were all out at the polls yesterday with Lewis George and White's campaigns — because when we fight, we win! Congratulations Councilmembers on your victories.

Upcoming Action + Events

Tomorrow: RNs to picket and rally against hiring freeze
Thursday, June 6, 2024 — 12:00 PM
810 Vermont Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Nurses from across the country will rally tomorrow at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) headquarters to call on the VA to lift what is in effect a hiring freeze that has contributed to more than 66,000 vacancies across the health system. NNOC/NNU nurses across the country say the freeze is putting patient safety at risk and undermines the VA’s commitment to providing veterans with high-quality, integrated, veteran-specific care that only the VA has the experience and expertise to provide.

Hiring Hall:
Union jobs in the DC region

• AFGE: Labor Relations Specialist, DHA Task Force
• AFGE: Supervisory Labor Relations Specialist, DHA Task Force
• AFT: National Representative I-IV
• Alphabet Workers Union: Union Organizer I
• SEIU CIR: New Organizer
• IBEW: Video Producer / Graphics Creator
• International Transportation Training Center: Instructional Designer, Full or Part-Time and Employee only
• Maryland State Education Association: Managing Director
• Maryland State Education Association: Organizational Specialist
  Montgomery County Education Association: UniServ Director / Internal Organizer
• National Association of Government Employees/SEIU: Temporary Organizer
• National Treasury Employees Union: Assistant Counsel or National Field Representative
• SEIU Local 32BJ: Regional Communications Manager
• United Food and Commercial Workers: Benefits Assistant
• Washington-Baltimore News Guild: Office Manager

Labor Night at the Nationals

Labor Night at the Nationals is coming up on Friday, July 5, and now is the time to reserve your seats! Get tickets to join us for Labor Night at Nationals Park.

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