Labor Vigil for Nelson MandelaNews Articles
DC Public Education Allies Gather Monday to Join National Day of Action
Hundreds of DC teachers, students, parents, principals, faith leaders and community organizations will gather Monday for a forum and discussion of issues affecting public education in the District. All mayoral candidates have agreed to attend, as have local unions representing principals,...
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Dec 6, 2013
Celebrating Mandela's Legacy
Nelson Mandela’s life and legacy were honored and celebrated worldwide as news of his death spread around the globe. “During his visit to the United States in 1990, Mandela spoke to the AFL-CIO and called on the labor movement to use its history of empowering America’s workers as a model...
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Dec 6, 2013
Challenges Ahead For Regional Plan To Raise Minimum Wage
A regional plan to raise the minimum wage in the metro Washington area may hit an unexpected roadblock: the Maryland legislature. That’s because Free State lawmakers are considering a two-part minimum wage law, according to Bob Ross, president of the Prince George’s County NAACP. One...
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Dec 6, 2013
Solidarity Center Report: Labor Mourns Nelson Mandela
Working people worldwide yesterday marked the loss of former South African President Nelson Mandela, whose unyielding struggle to attain equality, human dignity and social justice for his countrymen and women will remain an inspiration to all who still carry on the fight for human rights....
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Dec 5, 2013
ALEC Legislators Try To Hide In Plain Sight
“Are you state legislators?” Hand outstretched, Arlene Holt Baker approached the group of well-dressed men gathered in the atrium of the Grand Hyatt. The men’s smiles quickly vanished when Diallo Brooks asked them to sign a pledge that they would put their “constituents first – before...
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Dec 5, 2013
Events
WOODY SEZ:The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie
WOODY SEZ: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE November 29 - December 14, 2013 Click here for times & tickets ; many of the...
· Nov 29, 2013 -- Dec 14, 2013
Book Discussion: The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority
WITH AUTHOR LORI WALLACH Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress writes the laws and sets trade policy. But in recent decades, presidents have...
· Dec 9, 2013
National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education
TOWN HALL ON PUBLIC EDUCATION IN WASHINGTON D.C. Mayoral Candidates Invited! Over the last year, educators, parents, students and...
· Dec 9, 2013
Labor Vigil for Nelson Mandela
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· Dec 9, 2013
NOVA Candidate Screening: Jennifer Wexton
Screening of Jennifer Wexton, Democratic nominee for
State Senate District 33.
· Dec 10, 2013
Film: The Last Truck: 5 Years Later
It was five years ago this month that the GM plant in Moraine, Ohio shut its
doors. Filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert documented the...
· Dec 10, 2013
Labor News Feeds
Tennessee Anti-Union Voices Ignore Positive Economic Impact of Workers Having a Voice on the Job
In September, the majority of workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., signed cards authorizing their affiliation with the UAW and the creation of a German-style "works council" at the plant. Daniel Cornfield, a professor of sociology and...
· AFL-CIO Blog · Dec 9, 2013
Korea (South): Railway union workers stage indefinite walkout
LabourStart headline - Source: Arirang News
· Labourstart World Labor Updates · Dec 9, 2013
Today in Labor History: December 9; Cool Labor Site
Today in Labor History: December 9 Ratification of a new labor agreement at Titan Tire of Natchez, Miss., ends the longest strike in the history of the U.S. tire industry, which began May 1, 1998, at the company’s Des Moines, Iowa, plant – 2001 (Union Strategies for Hard Times,...
· UCS Labor News Daily · Dec 9, 2013