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10/16/2018

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Labor to Labor 2018: AFL-CIO HQ phonebank (battleground states)
Weekdays, 11am – 5pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 (Lewis Room) Sign up here

Labor to Labor 2018: Baltimore County – District 10
Tue, October 16, 3pm – 7pm
1199 SEIU – 611 N. Eutaw St. Baltimore, MD 21201 Sign up here

Labor to Labor 2018: Phone bank (St. Mary’s)
M-TH, 5pm – 7pm
IAM – Winpisinger Center – 24494 Placid Harbor Way Hollywood, MD 20636 Sign up here

Labor to Labor 2018: Baltimore City Phone Bank for District 8 Team
Tue, October 16, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
AFT-Maryland - 5800 Metro Dr Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21215

Film: Teacher of the Year [Takoma] (Films Across Borders: Stories of Women)
Tue, October 16, 6pm – 8pm
Busboys and Poets, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
FREE; RSVP here
Introduced by Liz Davis, president of the Washington Teachers Union

Members of Congress stand with WUSA-9 workers, urge station to bargain in good faith

10/16/2018

As IBEW Local 1200 marks a year battling for a fair contract at CBS-affiliate WUSA-9, members of Congress and other area leaders are urging the station’s corporate owners Tegna Inc. to show its workers the respect they deserve at the bargaining table. “We encourage you to negotiate in good faith to come to a resolution that includes a fair wage and benefit package,” U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Benjamin Cardin of Maryland said in a letter to station manager Richard Dyer in September, and D.C., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton urged “a speedy, positive agreement.” Despite the local’s compromises and concessions over the course of 16 bargaining sessions, including five with a mediator, Tegna, formerly Gannett, has refused to discuss any of the union’s proposals. “Not interested” has been chief negotiator Tim Fair’s stock response. “Everything we’ve proposed, it’s been ‘no, no, no,’” Local 1200 Business Manager Ken Brown said. The WUSA-9 unit, which includes nearly 40 technicians, camera operators, editors and other employees, has been working under an expired contract since November. The National Labor Relations Board is investigating Local 1200’s unfair labor practice charge, along with a shop steward’s charges of management harassment over the past year. Read more here
photo: IBEW 1200 unit members at WUSA-9

CSA awarded $300K to boost women in construction

10/16/2018

The Metro Washington Council’s Community Services Agency has been awarded a nearly $300,000 grant to increase the number of women in its Building Futures Construction Pre-Apprenticeship Program in the District and expand the program to women in Prince Georges County. "We are so thrilled to have this opportunity to bring more women into the dynamic and growing field of construction, opening the doors for more women to family-sustaining careers," said CSA Executive Director Sonté DuCote. The $297,432 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grant is from the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau. To support this effort, CSA will convene a Project Advisory Committee made up of female Building Futures graduates and representatives in the construction industry and invites journeywomen and trades women retirees to volunteer as speakers and mentors for the program. email Client Services Coordinator Sylvia Casaro Dietert at [email protected].
photo: from the "Hard Hatted Woman" documentary

Labor Quote of the Day: John Brown

10/16/2018

“If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done!”
Hear more about John Brown on this week’s Labor History Today podcast, or on your favorite podcast app, just search for Union City Radio.

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