2011: DC Labor's Year In Review (Part 2)

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

2011: DC Labor’s Year In Review (Part 2)
From Wisconsin solidarity to the Verizon strike, Occupy DC and a host of local struggles, 2011 was a banner year for the metro area labor movement. As Union City looks forward to reporting on a New Year of solidarity in 2012, we’re taking a moment to dip into the Union City archive and remember some of the highlights of the past year...

March 12: Rockin' Out At Evening With Labor
Long before the last notes of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s impromptu a capella rendition of “Joe Hill” faded away, the more than 900 labor activists crowded into the Omni Shoreham’s ballroom knew they’d just attended one of the most memorable Evening with Labor dinners in the 34-year history of the event...

April 4: "I Am A Worker"
Chanting “We are one!” over a thousand activists marched through the streets of downtown Washington Monday -- the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- to show their solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and other states “where politicians backed by corporate CEOs are trying to take away the rights for which Dr. King gave his life,” said NAACP President Ben Jealous...

April 19: Young Activists Take To Streets To Link Environment, Labor
Chanting “The youth are rising- no more compromising!” thousands of fired-up young environmental and labor rights activists rallied, marched and blocked the streets of the nation’s capital yesterday. “There’s a real connection between environmental injustice and economic injustice, which directly affects workers,” Marge Dodson – from Wesley University in Connecticut - told Union City…