News Articles

Metro Council Delegate Meeting Monday
Monday's Delegate Meeting will feature the AFL-CIO's new "Meet Mr. 1%" video...
  ·  Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO  ·  May 18, 2012

DC COPE Report: Hard Work Pays Off in Ward 5
Winning by a landslide, Kenyan McDuffie took nearly 45% of the vote in this Tuesday's Ward 5 Special Election...
  ·  Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO  ·  May 18, 2012

Labor Photo: Honoring 9/11 Union Members
Labor's International Hall of Fame paid tribute to the more than 600 union members who died on September 11, 2001 in a ceremony at the AFL-CIO yesterday...
  ·  Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO  ·  May 18, 2012

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Events

Our DC Pepco Shareholder Meeting "Celebration"
Join Our DC to show up at Pepco's annual shareholder meeting to "shout out at CEO Joe Rigby, Pepco's Board of Directors, fat-cat investors and top executives"...
  ·  May 18, 2012

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Labor News Feeds

Revisions to Alabama’s HB 56 Are No Fix
Despite promising a veto, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) on Friday signed into law revisions to the state’s notorious anti-immigrant measure HB 56. The new version (HB 658) maintains the worst of the original law’s provisions.
  ·  AFL-CIO Blog  ·  May 19, 2012  

Today in Labor History: Weekend Edition; Cool Labor Site: National Committee on Pay Equity; Labor Video: Raising the Harvard Bar
Today in Labor History: Weekend Edition May 18 In what may have been baseball’s first labor strike, the Detroit Tigers refuse to play after team leader Ty Cobb is suspended: he went into the stands and beat a fan who had been heckling him.  Cobb was reinstated and the Tigers went back to work...
  ·  UCS Labor News Daily  ·  May 18, 2012  

Global: Locked Out Workers Launch International Campaign to Get Rio Tinto 'OFF the Olympic Podium'
LabourStart headline - Source: USW
  ·  Labourstart World Labor Updates  ·  May 19, 2012  

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