"How do we go about getting tickets to Union Night at DC United?" asks Kim Tyrrell at IBEW Local Union 26. Tickets for the May 30 event, part of this year's DC LaborFest, are available from Jake Lucas at 202.587.5000 or email [email protected]. Click here for complete details on LaborFest events.
This Week's Quiz: What percentage of front-line fast food workers, and their dependents, receive some form of welfare assistance? 12%; 23%; 47%; 52%. Click here and you could be next week's winner of a labor-themed prize! Previous Quiz: Since OSHA was approved by Congress in 1970, the agency has secured 12 criminal convictions against employers found guilty of failing to obey its health and safety rules. Congrats to Jake Gohagan of UTT Local 1031, Estill, SC, this week's quiz winner! As the DC Streetcar began yet another week of ghostlike, riderless trips up and down H Street, its overseers at DDOT faced increased pressure from local transit workers over what they say is an illegal mass firing of streetcar workers. While DDOT Director Leif Dormsjo looked on during a Tuesday hearing of the DC Council Committee on Transportation and the Environment focused on DDOT's budget, the Amalgamated Transit Union demanded that DDOT withhold payments to McDonald Transit, which that manages the DC Streetcar for DDOT. "The DC Streetcar is already an embarrassing financial and urban planning fiasco. Let’s not allow it to become a human rights fiasco, too," said the ATU’s Chris Townsend.
This year’s DC LaborFest launches on Friday, May 1, with a full day of labor arts, film, music and history events. The AFL-CIO will host a LABOR FILM POSTER EXHIBIT and a free noontime DC LABOR FILMFEST PREVIEW SCREENING; at 12:30p a wreath will be laid at the MOTHER JONES MEMORIAL in Silver Spring; University of Maryland Hornbake Library’s AFL-CIO Archives will host a LABOR HISTORY WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON and RECEPTION & TOUR in the afternoon, and then at 7p, SAG-AFTRA, Pride@Work, Reel Affirmations and The DC Center for the LGBT Community host “PRIDE,” the opening-night screening of the 15th annual DC Labor FilmFest; click here for tickets. The month-long LaborFest continues on the weekend of May 2-3; click here for complete details. |