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Labor knocks, labor walks

UMD graduate workers team up with Painters

DC teachers educate & organize

Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

 

Today's Labor Calendar

Union City Radio: Tue, October 18, 7:15am - 7:20am
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM ([link removed] map)

2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.

Prince William County Collective Bargaining: Tue, October 18, 2pm - 3pm
McCourt Building, 1 County Complex Ct. in Woodbridge VA ([link removed] map)

How you can help: Testify in person sign up starting at 1:30 pm. You can testify on line by signing up the day before; Call the Board of County Supervisors to express your support for collective bargaining; Email the Board by clicking here: [link removed] CLICK HERE; Tweet your support for meaningful collective bargaining.

Maryland Labor Phone Bank: Tue, October 18, 6pm - 8pm
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Virginia Labor 2022 Virtual Phone Bank: Tue, October 18, 6pm - 8pm

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Labor knocks, labor walks

As Election Day draws ever nearer, union members are working hard to turn out the labor vote across the DMV. [link removed] Click here for this week's labor phone and text banks and walks, including a [link removed] big one in DC on Saturday. Here are some photos from last weekend's GOTV: NNU door-knocks with DC At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman (left); WTU 6 president Jacqueline Pogue Lyons and Whittier EC STEM teacher Concha Johnson out canvassing for State Board of Ed. candidate Joshua Wiley (top right); Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) knocked doors for VA Reps Wexton and Spanberger with NoVA Labor (bottom right).


UMD graduate workers team up with Painters

As part of USAS-UMD's Workers' Rights Series, the UMD Fearless Student Employees - UMD graduate assistant employees fighting for livable wages, collective bargaining rights, and justice for all UMD workers and community -- have been participating in hand-billing with Painters DC 51 at construction sites around the University of Maryland College Park.

DC teachers educate & organize

WTU Local 6 members gave out books from FirstBook at the EmpowerEdDC Teacher Voice Festival on Saturday, while organizing for a fair contract.

Labor Quote: National Nurses United (DC)
"Elissa is a driving force for progress--the kind of dedicated leader for economic, social, & health justice that D.C. residents need."

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Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] No Equal Justice. Last week's show: [link removed] Sharecroppers' struggles for rights and power.

The J.P. Stevens textile company is forced to sign its first union contract after a 17-year struggle in North Carolina and other southern states - 1980

 

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