Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO

LABOR CALENDAR

10/27/2020

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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; click here to hear today's report

FILM: ATLANTICS (UK online screening): Tue, October 27, 2pm – 4pm (updated time!)
FREE via Zoom; RSVP here (see below for description)

Labor 2020: Phone banking with UNITE HERE Local 25 for Ed Lazere: Tue, October 27, 5pm – 8pm
contact David Stephen at [email protected] to participate.

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Special Meeting: Tue, October 27, 5pm – 7pm
The Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus will hold a special meeting this week with representatives of Virginia Tech to talk about how the new Innovation Campus can provide benefits to working class residents of Alexandria, during construction and after.
For the zoom link, contact [email protected]

Loudoun County School Board Meeting (Loudoun County Labor Caucus): Tue, October 27, 5pm – 7pm
The Loudoun County Labor Caucus will not meet this Tuesday, but instead we are encouraging people to attend the School Board meeting in person to ask the Board to allow people to comment virtually during their meetings. RSVP here to sign up to speak.

NoVA Virtual Phone Bank for Abigail Spanberger (U.S. Rep, VA 7): Tue, October 27, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Rep. Spanberger will speak at the event! Click here to register.

MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (NC): Tue, October 27, 6pm – 9pm
Sign up here

FILM: ATLANTICS: Tue, October 27, 7pm – 9pm
FREE via Zoom; RSVP here
After a group of unpaid construction workers disappears at sea one night in search of a better life abroad, the women they have left behind in Dakar are overwhelmed with a mysterious fever...

MWC Tri-County COPE meeting: Tue, October 27, 7pm – 9pm
Meeting via Zoom to discuss the political landscape of St. Mary’s, Charles and Calvert counties in Maryland. All MWC delegates and union members are welcome to participate. Register here

Progressive Maryland election text bank: Tue, October 27, 6pm – 8pm
Register with David Stephen; [email protected]

Metro Washington Council, Community Services Agency and Claimant Advocacy Program staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: WorkWeek; Working People; Stronger Together
Election 2020 Special: Rochester Labor Council president Dan Maloney on their recent resolution calling for a general strike if president Trump ignores the results of the upcoming elections. Professor Veena Dubal explains why everyone who’s a worker or who cares about workers should be paying close attention to Proposition 22 in California. A visit with Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Deb Patterson, a homecare worker running in Oregon’s state Senate District 10.

Trump order "Opens door to political cronyism"

10/27/2020

Calling it "the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes," AFGE National President Everett Kelley slammed president Trump's executive order last week that the union said would undermine decades of laws and policies designed to protect career civil servants from being hired or fired for political reasons. “Congress created these rules to guard against arbitrary hiring and firing decisions that are based not on job performance but on political affiliation, personal loyalty tests, and outright discrimination. President Trump’s executive order throws those rules out the window for an enormous portion of the federal workforce,” Kelley said. The order applies to current and new positions and gives agency heads seven months to conduct a complete review of their workforces that will be used to determine which jobs will be converted to the new schedule. Read more here.

How to extend UI

10/27/2020

A new flyer on "How to Extend Unemployment Insurance Beyond 26 Weeks" has just been posted on the MWC's Claimant Advocacy Program's page.

Labor 2020 Update: GOTV & TriCounty COPE

10/27/2020

With just one week until the last day to vote – Tuesday, November 3 – there’s still plenty of work to be done to get out the vote for labor’s candidates. Here’s the Metropolitan Washington Council’s guide to getting involved this week (see Calendar for complete details):

Tuesday, October 27
• 5p: Phone banking with UNITE HERE Local 25 for Ed Lazere (DC City Council At-Large)
• 6p: Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Member-to-Member Phone Banks to Swing States
• 6p: Progressive Maryland text bank
• 7p: Tri-County COPE meeting via Zoom to discuss the political landscape of St. Mary’s, Charles and Calvert counties in Maryland. All MWC delegates and union members are welcome to participate. Register in advance for this meeting.

Wednesday, October 28
• 6p: Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Member-to-Member Phone Banks to Swing States
• 6:30p: Phone bank Against Montgomery County, MD Ballot Question B at 6:30 pm
Thursday, October 29
• 6p: Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Member-to-Member Phone Banks to Swing States
For more info or to volunteer, contact Legislative and Political Director David Stephen at [email protected]

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