IBEW Local 26 will be featured on Discovery Channel’s “Innovators” series for its’ state of the art training facility in Lanham. Check out the video on the IBEW 26 Facebook page. “Security Storage is a non-union moving and storage company,” Teamsters 639 president Tommy Ratliff writes in response to our recent post answering an inquiry about union moving companies. We should have checked our own archives: Security Storage Goes Non-Union (12/16/2015 Union City). Local 639 recommends District Moving Companiesfor those in need of moving services; contact Nick Lavato at 301-843-6606.
President Obama joined the chorus of congratulations to recently-retired Metro Washington Council president Jos Williams (right) with a personal note saying that “The commitment to service you have shown in giving of yourself to lift up others reflects the fundamental American beliefs that our destiny is shared and we all do better when we look out for one another" and wishing Williams “all the best in the years ahead.” photo by Chris Garlock/Union City The Solidarity Center joins with the global labor and human rights communities in denouncing the murder of Guatemalan worker rights advocate Brenda Marleni Estrada Tambito. Estrada Tambito is the second union leader murdered this year in Guatemala, and among 62 murdered unionists in the past eight years. Read more at the Solidarity Center. |