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Nov 15, 2012 Federal Worker Updates Walter Reed Janitors Rally Over Nonpayment; TSA Screeners Ratify Contract more...
Nov 15, 2012 Updates/Corrections Embargoed Hostess Strike Support Link; Attack Victim in NW, Not SE more...
Nov 14, 2012 Principals Sue PG School System for Discrimination The principals' union has filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against the Prince George’s County public school system and its Board of Education... more...
Nov 14, 2012 DC Letter Carrier Delivers Help to Elderly Woman Attacked in NW Letter carrier Teddy Settles became a neighborhood hero last week when he tipped off police that an elderly woman on his route in Northwest DC had been beaten and robbed... more...
Nov 14, 2012 Area Bakers Union Urges Support for Hostess Strikers With thousands of Hostess workers now on strike across the country, the local baker’s union is urging support for the struggle... more...
Nov 13, 2012 Working Families Say "No More Tax Cuts for the Rich!" Less than 48 hours after the polls closed last week, working families in communities across the country called on their members of Congress to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and to end George Bush's tax cuts for the richest 2 percent... more...
Nov 13, 2012 Who's the 2012 "Scrooge of the Year"? As the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, it's time to cast the net for DC's "Scrooge of the Year." more...
Nov 13, 2012 CSA's News You Can Use: The Best Way to Help Sandy's Victims With hundreds of thousands of New York and New Jersey residents still in the dark and cold after the double whammy of Hurricane Sandy and last week's winter storm, the Community Services Agency and the AFL-CIO are urging financial support... more...
Nov 13, 2012 Labor Quiz: International Broom and Whisk Makers Union The International Broom and Whisk Makers Union was organized in 1893. It disbanded in which of the following years...? more...
Nov 9, 2012 THIS JUST IN: Daycon Strikers Win Long Battle for Justice It took two and a half years but the Teamsters 639 strike against Daycon is finally over... more...
Nov 9, 2012 CWA Says Public Financing of DC Elections Would Set Standard for Campaign Reform "Get big money out, get voters back in." CWA legislative director Shane Larson urged swift passage of the Public Financing of Elections Act of 2012... more...
Nov 9, 2012 Discount Tix to "Woody Sez" The celebration of Woody Guthrie's birthday centennial continues this month with "Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie" at Theater J... more...
Nov 9, 2012 Solidarity Center News: Striking Indonesian Workers Make Gains, Two Teachers Jailed in Bahrain In Indonesia, a strike by 2 million blue-collar workers over wages and job outsourcing resulted in government promises to improve worker pay and subcontracting... more...
Nov 8, 2012 Near Clean-Sweep for Labor-Endorsed Candidates & Issues Metro-area labor's endorsed candidates and initiatives scored a near clean-sweep Tuesday... more...
Nov 8, 2012 LiUNA! Gets Out the Vote in NoVA "In Northern Virginia alone, LiUNA! knocked on 40,000 doors for GOTV efforts to re-elect the President" reports Jaime Flores... more...
Nov 8, 2012 AFL-CIO Pivots to Battle Tax and Program Cuts Pivoting quickly from Tuesday's elections to the ongoing fight to protect working families' future... more...
Nov 7, 2012 Mood at AFL-CIO Headquarters: Anticipation, Exhilaration, Glee First there was anticipation, touched with a little bit of angst. Then there was exhilaration, as the electoral vote totals mounted for Democratic President Barack Obama mounted and as pro-worker U.S. Senate candidates won... more...
Nov 6, 2012 It's Election Day Here's the run-down on our coverage today, voting and area labor GOTV efforts: more...
Nov 6, 2012 Talk the Talk on Economic Inequality From the Occupy Movement to the Presidential election, economic inequality is in the spotlight... more...
Nov 6, 2012 Standing With Workers, Responding To Sandy In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy the power is still out for some areas of the East Coast, houses are flooded, and families are stranded and unable to communicate... more...
Nov 6, 2012 Election Day 2012: Moments from the Metro-Area GOTV Effort Hundreds – perhaps thousands – of labor activists hit the doors, polls and phones throughout the metro Washington area yesterday to get out the working family vote for labor-endorsed candidates and ballot initiatives. Union City’s Chris Garlock and Julia Kann caught up with some of... more...
Nov 5, 2012 Labor GOTV Finish Line In Sight It's all about getting out the vote now. The metro-area labor movement continues to hit the phones and doors today and tomorrow... more...
Nov 5, 2012 Labor-Endorsed Candidate Greg Hall Appointed to Vacant District 24 Delegate Seat Greg Hall, who was endorsed by the Metro Washington Council in 2010 but narrowly lost to Tiffany Alston as Delegate in the 24th Legislative District, will complete Alston's term.. more...
Nov 5, 2012 Deadline for Cafritz Awards & Peace Center Ads This Friday is the deadline for Cafritz Award nominations and ads in the Washington Peace Center's Activist Awards program book... more...
Nov 5, 2012 CSA Seeks Employment Development Specialist/Employer Liaison The Community Services Agency of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO is seeking an Employment Development Specialist/Employer Liaison... more...
Nov 5, 2012 Labor in the News: MCFT's Joseph Monte Joseph Monte, co-founder and president of two area education unions, is the subject of a profile in Sunday's Washington Post Magazine... more...
Nov 5, 2012 In Memoriam: Dorothy Jones Shields Dorothy Jones Shields, former director of the AFL-CIO union's education department, died Oct. 16... more...
Nov 5, 2012 Labor Quiz: NFLPA Which of the following players participated in the 1956 founding of the National Football League Players Association... more...
Nov 3, 2012 NOVA Labor Begins Final Push for 2012 GOTV "Oh yes, I'll be out there Tuesday for President Obama," AFGE member Joan Findlay promised Labor-to-Labor canvasser Jackie Jeter this morning... more...
Nov 3, 2012 Hotel Workers Dial for Jobs With 12,000 jobs at stake, including hospitality industry jobs, Unite Here Local 25 has mounted an impressive phone banking effort supporting Question 7... more...
Nov 3, 2012 Labor Photo: Firing Up the VA Labor Vote "This phonebank is so great," enthused Iron Workers Local 5 President John Rayner Friday morning after a shift on the AFL-CIO phonebank.. more...
Nov 3, 2012 Handy Labor Voter Guide Whether you're on Facebook, Twitter, or a fan of a real piece of paper, the Metro Council has materials to help activists spread the word about area labor-endorsed candidates... more...
Nov 3, 2012 Union Retirees Hit Street, Phones for Obama Over 100 Maryland, DC and Virginia retirees with the Alliance for Retired Americans have volunteered at the NoVA CLC for political action over the last two months... more...
Nov 2, 2012 Transfer of DC Firefighter President "Retaliation," Arbitrator Says An independent arbitrator on October 19 ruled in favor of DC Fire Firefighters Local 36 president Ed Smith, saying that Smith's transfer was clearly retaliation against Smith more...
Nov 2, 2012 Phonebanking Made Easy & Fun "Phonebanking is so easy and fun," exclaimed Rolene McKnight, Metro Washington Council receptionist after Council staff did a shift on the AFL-CIO phonebank Thursday... more...
Nov 2, 2012 Play Shines Light on Battle for Worker Safety An "inspirational story of survival and the fight to prevent other workers from being endangered," These Shining Lives is being performed at the Silver Spring Stage through November 17... more...
Nov 1, 2012 IBEW 1900 Members Head to NYC to Help Restore Power A team of Pepco workers -- members of IBEW 1900 -- headed up to New York City yesterday to help restore power... more...
Nov 1, 2012 Early Voting Guide & Latest Local Labor Walks With Hurricane Sandy shutting down polling places Monday and Tuesday, early voting has been extended in Maryland and Virginia... more...
Nov 1, 2012 CSA's News You Can Use: Helping Hurricane Victims As Hurricane Sandy clean-up begins, we'll post updates about how you can direct your support locally... more...
Oct 31, 2012 Sideswiped by Sandy, DC Area Focuses on Damage Repair, Helping Harder-Hit Areas With New Jersey and New York bearing the brunt of Hurricane Sandy, metro-area first responders yesterday focused on assessing and repairing damage... more...
Oct 31, 2012 McNutt Elected UFCW 400 President UFCW Local 400 members have elected Tom McNutt President, along with McNutt's "Proven Leadership" slate to a 3-year term... more...
Oct 31, 2012 Union-Made-in-America Halloween Treats When the little ghosts and goblins come a'knocking on Halloween night, why not supply them with union treats made right... more...
Oct 29, 2012 Hospital Workers Prepare for Storm “Hospitals are gearing up for the possibility of employees not being able to leave or having difficulty getting to work,” reports DCNA’s Sandra Falwell, a National Nurses United VP who works at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC). “CNMC has offered sleeping accommodations... more...
Oct 29, 2012 CSA News You Can Use: How to Prepare for Hurricane Sandy's Impact and Aftermath Hurricane Sandy, one of the largest hurricanes in decades, is slamming into the mid-Atlantic and northeast United States. Bill Hauenstein, AFL-CIO Community Services liaison for the Northeast region, provides useful links for union leaders, members and families preparing for and... more...
Oct 29, 2012 NSO Musicians Avoid Discord Heard at Other Orchestras Musicians at the National Symphony Orchestra last month ratified a new 4-year agreement. The successful conclusion to negotiations was “actually quite remarkable in a year that has seen difficult orchestra negotiations in many major US orchestras,” reports AFM 161-710 president Ed... more...
Oct 28, 2012 Safety Top Priority as First Responders Prep for Metro-area first responders -- many of whom are union members -- worked diligently this weekend to make sure local services were ready to handle the effects of Hurricane Sandy... more...
Oct 28, 2012 Labor Volunteers Pour Into NoVA for Obama, Push Referenda in MD Coming from as far away as West Virginia, nearly 200 labor volunteers poured into Northern Virginia Saturday... more...
Oct 28, 2012 Labor Photo: Rallying for Gaming Jobs Workers of all kinds -- construction workers, service workers, teachers, police and firefighters -- turned out last Friday to voice their support for Question 7... more...
Oct 28, 2012 Local Updates/News from Area Local Unions Lucky IUEC 10 Member; AFSCME Council 20 Voices... more...
Oct 28, 2012 Labor Quiz: Uplifting Humanity "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." more...
Oct 26, 2012 Election "Crunch Time" With less than two weeks to go, polling has the vote in swing state Virginia split in both the presidential and senatorial races... more...
Oct 26, 2012 Walmart Developer Criticized, Workers Speak Out in Video "Developers should not be rewarded for displacing residents and bringing jobs that make it impossible to live in the area and support a family," more...
Oct 26, 2012 Solidarity Center News: Workers Make Gains in Nicaragua, Bangladesh Nicaragua has become the third country to ratify the International Labor Organization convention standard giving domestic workers the right to decent work... more...
Oct 26, 2012 Labor Photo: Rallying for Gaming Jobs Workers of all kinds -- construction workers, service workers, teachers, police and firefighters – turned out Friday to voice their support for Question 7, which would expand gaming in the State of Maryland. Among those speaking out were Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker,... more...
Oct 25, 2012 Local Updates/News from Area Local Unions ATU 689 Observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month; IBEW 26's "Big Entrance into Northern VA" more...
Oct 25, 2012 AFGE Local 32 Hosts Second Annual CFC Agency Fair Workers at the Office of Personnel Management learned about nearly two dozen local social service agencies at AFGE Local 32's Combined Federal Campaign Fair on Tuesday... more...
Oct 25, 2012 Labor Video: "Heavy Lifting" If the short white-haired guy unloading baggage in this video looks familiar, that’s because he's U.S. Senator (D, MD) Ben Cardin... more...
Oct 24, 2012 Labor On The Move: Avodah Brings New Faces to Metro Council Allies Four Metro Council ally organizations have new young staff members, brought to DC through Avodah, the Jewish Service Corps... more...
Oct 24, 2012 Updated Labor-Endorsed Candidates List Posted An updated list of candidates endorsed by the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO and the Metro Washington Council has been posted... more...
Oct 24, 2012 Labor Photo: Local 476 Members and Families Get Out the Vote Elyse Eitches, her mother Rachel Eitches, and Augusta Thomas prepare to depart on a recent precinct walk to encourage people to vote on Tuesday, November 6... more...
Oct 24, 2012 Workers & Students Connect Farm to Table Saying that real food and real jobs go hand in hand, more than 100 food service workers and students celebrated Food Day yesterday to promote their vision of a sustainable, healthy DC... more...
Oct 23, 2012 AFGE 476 Helps Promote CSA at HUD During Combined Federal Campaign The CSA's fall campaign got a big boost Wednesday when HUD Assistant Deputy Secretary Patricia Hoban-Moore introduced CSA at a HUD CFC kick-off event... more...
Oct 23, 2012 Pepco Workers OK New 4-Year Deal IBEW 1900 membership overwhelmingly ratified a new 4-year deal with Pepco last Thursday. In addition to a 10.1% wage increase... more...
Oct 23, 2012 NoVA GOTV Labor Effort Continues to Build The labor effort to get out the vote in Northern Virginia continued to build as nearly 200 union members participated in last Saturday's Labor to Labor precinct walks... more...
Oct 23, 2012 Union Voice/Readers Write: Where Are The Walks? "I've tried to open the links on weekend labor walks and phone banking activities" in Union City "to no avail" more...
Oct 23, 2012 In Memoriam: "Rabble-Rouser" Jerry Tucker Dies Lifelong "rabble-rouser" Jerry Tucker died last Friday. "Jerry would want us to take this moment to rededicate ourselves to the great crusade for social and economic justice..." more...
Oct 22, 2012 Green Jobs: Electrical Workers Construct Solar Arrays in Maryland IBEW Local 26 members are building some cutting-edge green energy on the rooftos of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. Made possible by the 2009 stimulus funds, highly skilled electrical workers are building four solar arrays with all "Made in... more...
Oct 22, 2012 Respect DC Building to Black Friday This year Walmart, the biggest store in the US, may face a strike on the biggest shopping day of the year – Black Friday. When workers walked out at 23 Walmarts across the country last week ( “Laurel Walmart Workers Join National Strike,” UC 10/10/2012) , Respect DC organizer Mike... more...
Oct 22, 2012 THIS JUST IN: NoVA GOTV Labor Effort Continues to Build The labor effort to get out the vote in Northern Virginia continued to build as nearly 200 union members participated in last Saturday’s Labor to Labor precinct walks. Labor-endorsed US Senate candidate Tim Kaine, along with AFGE President J. David Cox, rallied the group before they hit... more...
Oct 19, 2012 THIS JUST IN Join the Corporate Reform Coalition today for a noontime "celebration" of the 100th Birthday of the US Chamber of Commerce. Those who can't be there in-person can participate by sending the Chamber a birthday card... more...
Oct 19, 2012 Kaine to Rally NoVA Volunteers Saturday Tim Kaine, the labor-endorsed candidate for the US Senate in Virginia, will rally NoVA volunteers at this Saturday's Labor-to-Labor walks... more...
Oct 19, 2012 UFCW 400 Sweeps Local ILCA Awards UFCW Local 400 won top awards in the International Labor Communications Association 2012 Labor Media Awards... more...
Oct 19, 2012 Solidarity Center News: Big Win for Electricity Workers in Mexico A big court win for electricity workers in Mexico could mean more than 16,000 fired workers will be offered reinstatement and receive back pay... more...
Oct 18, 2012 Iron 5 Keeps Riding in Battle Against Diabetes The Iron Workers Local 5 Motorcycle Club has now raised a total of $179,000 for the research and treatment of diabetes, which afflicts 25.8 million children and adults in the U.S. more...
Oct 18, 2012 After Work Phone Bank Tonight at AFL-CIO There'll be a special After Work Phone Bank at the AFL-CIO tonight... more...
Oct 18, 2012 Union Voice/Readers Write: Dan The Man "Is Dan Duncan receiving communion or taking the blame for Obama's first debate?" more...
Oct 18, 2012 Labor Heritage Sponsors Dracula Contest The Labor Heritage Foundation is sponsoring a "Dracula Contest" with tickets to the Washington Ballet's upcoming Kennedy Center production of Dracula as prizes... more...
Oct 17, 2012 Political Mobilization Main Focus of Council Meeting Labor political activity in Maryland, the District and Virginia – including walks and phonebanks -- was the main focus of Monday night's Metro Washington Council meeting, with Election Day just a few weeks away... more...
Oct 17, 2012 Labor Photo: Groundbreaking at Laborers 657 Training Institute Renovation Laborers Local 657 leaders, members, staff and local labor leaders and politicians broke ground on a major renovation of the Francis L. Greenfield Laborers' Training and Apprenticeship Institute... more...
Oct 17, 2012 Labor On The Move: ATU 689's Garland Retiring A retirement party for Anthony "Wayne" Garland, ATU 689 Recording Secretary, will be held this Saturday, Oct 20 from 7p-1a at the ATU Local 689 union hall more...
Oct 17, 2012 Romney Trashman Video Most-Watched In U.S. The YouTube video series featuring AFSCME members who provide services to Mitt Romney’s La Jolla community was the most-watched political video in the country last week... more...
Oct 16, 2012 Granholm, Boland & Thomas Fire Up NoVA Volunteers More than 130 union members from 42 locals representing 25 international unions hit the streets across Northern Virginia Saturday after being pumped up by three inspirational speeches. “Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (photo) wowed the... more...
Oct 16, 2012 CSA's News You Can Use: Supporting Your Community Charitable giving campaigns are now underway all across the metro area, and whether you work for the federal or local government or in the private sector, you have the opportunity to support your community through the United Way, Combined Federal, or DC One Fund worksite campaigns. Hundreds of... more...
Oct 16, 2012 Trumka on the DC Labor FilmFest “Art can certainly bring alive the struggles of the past,” said AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka last Friday, introducing the screening of “We Are Wisconsin” at the AFL-CIO. “By witnessing the stories of those struggles, we can learn from them. We can imagine similar... more...
Oct 15, 2012 Political Updates at Tonight's Delegate Meeting: Political action on all levels Don't miss the last Council meeting before next month's elections! more...
Oct 15, 2012 DC Labor FilmFest Screenings Continue The 12th annual DC Labor FilmFest continues this week... more...
Oct 15, 2012 Labor Quiz: Why Was Debs Jailed? Eugene V. Debs ran for president from a jail cell in 1920 and got a million votes; why was he jailed? more...
Oct 15, 2012 THIS JUST IN: Boycott Against American Crystal Sugar Products Because of American Crystal Sugar's continued refusal to end its 14-month lockout of more than 1,300 workers... more...
Oct 12, 2012 Weekend Labor-to-Labor Don't miss these area labor-to-labor activities tomorrow, Saturday, October 13, all starting at 9am... more...
Oct 12, 2012 DC Labor FilmFest Kicks Off Today This year's DC Labor FilmFest kicks off today with a line-up celebrating the dedicated and inspiring work by firefighters, teachers, and other public sector workers... more...
Oct 12, 2012 NECA DC and IBEW Local 26 Help Local Kids Install Electrical Wire at Big Build The Washington, D.C. Electrical Alliance gave local kids a hands-on glimpse into the career of an electrician at National Building Museum's Big Build more...
Oct 12, 2012 Trick-or-Treating for a Cause This Halloween activists are celebrating -- and making a difference -- with the Paid Sick Days For All campaign and APALA-DC.. more...
Oct 11, 2012 THIS JUST IN Prep for tonight's vice presidential debate by dropping by the AFL-CIO's phonebank tonight... more...
Oct 11, 2012 Local Labor Takes a Stand with FOP "What makes this issue so important to us as police officers who leave our homes to go out and protect the community is this is about our family,"... more...
Oct 11, 2012 Labor FilmFest Preview: Musicals & A Workplace RomCom The Labor FilmFest unofficially kicks off today with a free noontime screening of "Roll On Columbia" at the AFL-CIO... more...
Oct 11, 2012 Union Voice/Readers Write: Previewing Working Lunch "I am the President of the SW Montana Central Labor Council, in Butte, MT," writes Rick LaBreche... more...
Oct 10, 2012 Laurel Walmart Workers Join National Strike The wave of Walmart strikes spread to the Washington area yesterday morning when over a dozen workers struck the Laurel Walmart as part of a national walkout... more...
Oct 10, 2012 Still Room for More FilmFest Volunteers Free t-shirts, great movies, what more could you want? more...
Oct 10, 2012 Labor FilmFest Preview: Bogie to Billy From Humphrey Bogart to Billy Elliott and Austin trash collectors to beleaguered office workers... more...
Oct 9, 2012 Phonebank Prizes & Photo-Op With President Obama In addition to getting their picture taken with President Obama*, volunteers at the AFL-CIO phonebank are now eligible for prizes. If unavailable in person, life-size 2-D image of President Obama will be substituted... more...
Oct 8, 2012 Pepco Workers Win New Deal After extensive negotiations over the weekend, Pepco workers finally won a tentative contract, likely averting a strike... more...
Oct 8, 2012 DCNA Picket at Howard Called Off As Hospital Returns to Table The DC Nurse's Association cancelled its picket scheduled for tomorrow after Howard University Hospital agreed to return to the bargaining table... more...
Oct 8, 2012 Court Ruling Paves The Way To Representation For Local American Airlines Agents The Communications Workers of America scored a big victory October 3 when a federal appeals court overturned a judge's ruling... more...
Oct 8, 2012 Labor FilmFest Preview: Free Noontime Screenings Thursday & Friday The 12th annual DC Labor FilmFest kicks off with two free noontime screenings this Thursday and Friday at the AFL-CIO... more...
Oct 8, 2012 Labor Quiz: What's a "Scab herder"? A "scab herder" is: a non-union sheep-herder, someone who accompanies scabs into a struck workplace, or a disgusting personal habit... more...
Oct 8, 2012 Labor FilmFest Preview: Teachers & Firefighters Star in Opening Night Teachers and firefighters lead off Opening Night of the DC Labor FilmFest this Friday... more...
Oct 5, 2012 NoVA Labor Donates Food to Hungry Students To help alleviate hunger in local schools, NoVA Labor volunteers are asked to bring a canned or nonperishable food item when they show up for walks or phonebanks... more...
Oct 5, 2012 Ward 4 Says Two Walmarts is Too Much "Walmart disrespects their customers and workers in urban communities" said one Ward 4 resident... more...
Oct 5, 2012 Labor On The Move: Joyce Miller Memorial Set The memorial service for Joyce Miller has been set for Tuesday... more...
Oct 5, 2012 Labor FilmFest Co-Founder Tony Mazzocchi Inducted into Labor Hall of Honor DC Labor FilmFest co-founder Tony Mazzocchi was inducted into the U.S. Department of Labor's Hall of Honor on June 5... more...
Oct 4, 2012 Georgetown Adjuncts Organizing Georgetown University adjuncts are organizing to join their unionized colleagues in SEIU Local 500's Coalition of Academic Labor... more...
Oct 4, 2012 MontCo & PG Labor Walks Launch Saturday Labor walks in Prince George's and Montgomery counties begin Saturday, October 6, running from 9a to 1p... more...
Oct 4, 2012 Labor Photo: AFSCME Local 2477's 40th Anniversary AFSCME Local 2477 celebrated its' 40th anniversary of representing workers at the Library of Congress on Tuesday, September 25... more...
Oct 4, 2012 Labor FilmFest Going Viral Area unions are helping get the word out about the DC Labor FilmFest -- and winning themselves free FilmFest passes! more...
Oct 4, 2012 Union Voice/Readers Write: Finding Woody "I'd like to list the Woody Guthrie film you showed (at Busboys & Poets Tuesday night) in the Resources section of our bimonthly Poverty & Race..." more...
Oct 3, 2012 Sheet Metal Apprenticeship Program Graduates 102 "I always complete what I start," said Latauna Bigelow proudly last Saturday... more...
Oct 3, 2012 MontCo Job Safety Hearing Videos Posted Videos from the September 21 Montgomery County Worker Safety and Health Commission hearings on immigrant worker job safety have been posted online... more...
Oct 3, 2012 Baker Pledges Cake For Top Phonebankers AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker has pledged to personally bake a cake for the most active phone banker on the AFL-CIO phonebanks... more...
Oct 2, 2012 WHC Nurses Warn of Threat of "Taco Bell" Care Washington Hospital Center visitors and patients were greeted yesterday morning by nurses who warned against the threat of "Taco Bell" healthcare... more...
Oct 2, 2012 Another Union to Picket Howard A second union plans to picket Howard University this week. The DC Nurse’s Association has scheduled a picket next Tuesday... more...
Oct 2, 2012 Tonight -- Free Screening Commemorates Guthrie's 100's Birthday A free screening of Hard Travelin', the story of Woody Guthrie told through those who knew him, will be held tonight at Busboys & Poets... more...
Oct 2, 2012 Activists Celebrate Anniversary of Occupy DC Activists commemorated the one-year anniversary of Occupy DC last weekend with marches, actions, teach-ins and music... more...
Oct 1, 2012 "Howard 4" Make Noise At Opening Convocation Howard University trustees, alumni and returning students received an unexpected 'welcome' from fired WHUT Channel 32 workers and their supporters... more...
Oct 1, 2012 Labor 2012 Calendar, Endorsed Candidates & Referenda, Early Voting & More With Election Day just over a month away, labor’s local get-out-the-vote operations are in full swing... more...
Oct 1, 2012 Labor FilmFest Previews, Volunteers & Hosts With the 12th annual DC Labor FilmFest coming up next week, check out free online previews of the FilmFest line-up to help decide which of the films to see... more...
Oct 1, 2012 NLC's Bonnie Ladin Union Skills Classes in Full Swing The National Labor College wrapped up a successful first week of Bonnie Ladin Union Skills courses last week... more...
Oct 1, 2012 Union Voice: Readers Write "While the LA Times was wall-to-wall non-union for many years, the press operators were successfully organized by the Graphic Communications Conference of the Teamsters" more...
Oct 1, 2012 Labor Quiz: Nine Millionaires and a Plumber "Nine Millionaires and a Plumber" refers to: Mitt Romney's "Kitchen Cabinet," Dwight D. Eisenhower's Cabinet, or Richard M. Nixon's "Watergate Gang"? more...
Sep 28, 2012 THIS JUST IN: Occupy DC to Celebrate 1-Year Mark Occupiers from DC and the surrounding area are planning events all weekend to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the occupy camps in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza... more...
Sep 28, 2012 NABET-CWA 31 to Picket Howard University Convocation & Football Game Howard University trustees in town this week for the school's 145th Opening Convocation will be greeted by picketing NABET-CWA members... more...
Sep 28, 2012 Pepco Workers Reject Contract Pepco workers overwhelmingly rejected the company's "last, best and final" contract offer yesterday... more...
Sep 28, 2012 CSA Golf Tourney Photos Posted Photos of the 2012 CSA Golf Tournament -- the 17th annual -- have been posted on the Metro Council's Facebook page... more...
Sep 27, 2012 DOE O&M Staff Join IUOE 99 Operations and maintenance staff at the United States Department of Energy in downtown DC voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining IUOE 99 during a late-night election... more...
Sep 27, 2012 DC Labor FilmFest Sneak Peeks With tickets to the upcoming DC Labor FilmFest going fast, fans are getting free sneak-peeks at this year's line up through a labor film poster exhibit and FilmFest preview screenings... more...
Sep 26, 2012 Pepco Workers Expected to Vote Down Contract Today Pepco workers are expected to vote down the utility's "last, best and final" contract offer today and IBEW 1900 hopes to return to the bargaining table and avoid a strike more...
Sep 26, 2012 Labor On The Move: ATU's Rodney Richmond Retires Former Local 689 Secretary-Treasurer and recent ATU International Vice President Rodney Richmond's retirement was celebrated in high style Saturday... more...
Sep 26, 2012 September Meeting Material Available Online Materials distributed at last week's Metro Council meeting are now available online, including the important upcoming political activities and resolutions approved by the Board and delegates more...
Sep 26, 2012 MontCo Hearing: Immigrant Workers Need Safer Jobs While Montgomery County continues to be one of the wealthiest communities in the nation, "for immigrants, too often it's an endless succession of dangerous jobs at poverty wages"... more...
Sep 25, 2012 Low Scores, High Fundraising at CSA Golf Tourney More than 100 area union golfers went for low scores while they raised funds during a perfect sunny and crisp fall day yesterday at the Community Services Agency's 17th annual golf tournament more...
Sep 25, 2012 "Run To Win!" Workshop Set for Saturday Anyone interested in running for political office will want to sign up for the September 29 "Run To Win! 2014 and Beyond" daylong workshop... more...
Sep 25, 2012 Labor On The Move: Solidarity Center's Bader-Blau Has Daughter; DC JWJ's Forester Goes National Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau gave birth to a baby girl September 19, reports Deputy Executive Director Kate Doherty... more...
Sep 25, 2012 Yes You Can Still Get Your Labor FilmFest Ad In This year's line-up for the DC Labor FilmFest has been released and we're now working on finalizing the FilmFest program guide... more...
Sep 24, 2012 Library of Congress Locals Hold Worksite Voter Drive AFSCME Locals 2477 and 2910 held a voter registration drive recently at the Library of Congress, where their members work... more...
Sep 24, 2012 CSA's News You Can Use: Bargaining Fact Sheets The Labor Project for Working Families has developed a series of new "Unions Win It" fact sheets on bargaining for work family benefits ... more...
Sep 24, 2012 Win or Work for Free FilmFest T-Shirts & Tix "Film is an amazing medium to move people" writes Kayla Mock of UFCW 400 in our DC Labor FilmFest "Favorite Things" survey... more...
Sep 24, 2012 Labor Quiz: First Labor Political Organization The first labor and trade union political organization in the U.S., formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1828 was... more...
Sep 21, 2012 Maryland Labor 2012 Events A kick-off labor rally and walk for John Delaney -- Democratic candidate in Maryland's 6th Congressional District -- is set for Saturday, September 22 in Hagerstown, MD... more...
Sep 21, 2012 FilmFest "Favorite Things," Last Chance for Custom-Sized Tees "I look forward to [the DC Labor FilmFest] every year" writes Beverly Holton of the AFL-CIO in response to the FilmFest "Favorite Things Survey" more...
Sep 21, 2012 Metro Council Supports Worker Struggles Near And Far Locked-out sugar workers in the Midwest, union workers at WPFW, OPEIU Local 2 members at SEIU headquarters, police officers in Montgomery County -- and the Robin Hood Tax Campaign -- all won the support of the Metro Washington Council at Wednesday night’s meeting... more...
Sep 20, 2012 After 13-Month Battle, CWA & IBEW Win Contract At Verizon CWA and IBEW yesterday announced a tentative agreement with Verizon Communications that the union says "protects the job security and retirement security of 34,000 members from Virginia to Massachusetts." more...
Sep 20, 2012 3 Big Wins Highlight Council Meeting A trio of victories highlighted last night’s meeting of the Metro Washington Council... more...
Sep 20, 2012 IAFF 36's Ed Smith & DC Labor FilmFest Host "Detropia" Screening Tonight IAFF Local 36 President Ed Smith and the DC Labor FilmFest are co-hosting a special screening tonight of "Detropia", the new documentary that "tells the story of one city in economic decay" more...
Sep 20, 2012 Romney Bemoans Union Contracts Would Prevent Mass Firing of Federal Workers We all have regrets in our lives. Even Mitt Romney, who told a group of high-roller donors that he regrets that federal workers are protected by union contracts... more...
Sep 20, 2012 CSA Golf Tourney Beats Monday Blues Beat those Monday blues by spending the day playing golf for a great cause... more...
Sep 19, 2012 Workers, Unions Cheer Passage of Displaced Worker Protection Act in MontCo Montgomery County Council chambers resounded with the cheers of workers and their unions Tuesday morning after the Council approved the Displaced Worker Protection Act... more...
Sep 19, 2012 UE's Townsend Debates Union Busters; WI Judge Overturns Walker's Anti-collective Bargaining Law The UE's Chris Townsend took on "two of the leading anti-union forces in the U.S." when he debated "Shaddowbosses" author Mallory Factor at the "reliably anti-union" Cato Institute... more...
Sep 19, 2012 Why Do You Love the Labor FilmFest? The DC Labor FilmFest is celebrating 12 years of bringing films about work and workers to the silver screen... more...
Sep 19, 2012 Labor on the Move: Kathy Casavant Goes WILD After three years of leading the AFL-CIO's Governance, Organizational and Leadership Development team, Kathy Casavant is leaving the AFL-CIO... more...
Sep 18, 2012 "Outrageous" Tax Cut for Tech Millionaires Opposed A bill to cut taxes for tech investors has drawn the opposition of the Metro Council and other allies... more...
Sep 18, 2012 Custom-Sized FilmFest T-Shirts Fit the Bill "Finally, a way to order a film fest T-shirt that actually fits" a grateful Carl Goldman (Executive Director, AFSCME Council 26) wrote... more...
Sep 18, 2012 Improved "Friends and Neighbors" Tool Launched To Get Out The Vote Calling it the "cutting edge of political technology," Workers Voice is launching a new and improved Friends and Neighbors tool to help get the vote out this year... more...
Sep 17, 2012 NoVA Election Efforts Expanding With less than two months to go, NoVA Labor President Dan Duncan says he’s "amazed at the wonderful number of volunteers donating their time and efforts"... more...
Sep 17, 2012 Full-Court Press on Displaced Worker Bill Vote Tomorrow From phone-banking and canvassing to ads on Facebook, as well as an online petition to Council members, 32BJ SEIU is "pulling out all the stops" to pass the Displaced Worker Protection Act... more...
Sep 17, 2012 Union Voice/Readers Write: "Gets me oriented" "I wanted to write to thank you for your outstanding work on Union City," writes AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research Director Glenn Perusek... more...
Sep 17, 2012 Labor Quiz: How Much Wealth? The top 1 percent of Americans take in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year... more...
Sep 14, 2012 AFL-CIO Election Phonebank Opens Monday The AFL-CIO's 2012 election phone bank opens on Monday, September 17 and will run weekdays from 10a–6p through Election Day... more...
Sep 14, 2012 2012 DC Labor FilmFest Line-Up Released From the inspirational We Are Wisconsin to the still-hilarious Office Space... more...
Sep 14, 2012 Locals Step Up for Community Service Union members know what it means to struggle, so it's no surprise that they don't forget to reach out to those in need. The OPEIU Local 2 shop at the American Federation of Government Employees... more...
Sep 13, 2012 DC Teachers Step Up Solidarity With Striking Chicago Teachers D.C. teachers and union staff at the Washington Teachers' Union and across DC wore red yesterday to demonstrate their solidarity with striking teachers in Chicago... more...
Sep 13, 2012 32BJ SEIU Launches Online Petition Supporting Displaced Worker Protection Act With a vote on the Displaced Worker Protection Act expected at the Montgomery County Council next week, 32BJ SEIU is urging supporters to sign an online petition... more...
Sep 13, 2012 Custom-sized Labor FilmFest T-Shirts Available DC Labor FilmFest t-shirts, usually only available in large or extra-large sizes, are available -- for a limited time -- in custom sizes this year... more...
Sep 13, 2012 SEIU Staffers Rally for Contract SEIU staffers staged a lunchtime picket at the union's Dupont Circle headquarters Wednesday to demand a fair contract... more...
Sep 12, 2012 Unite Here 23 Cafeteria Workers Win New Contract Over the course of the last week, one hundred and twenty Unite Here Local 23 members in six cafeterias operated by IL Creations unanimously ratified their new collective bargaining agreement... more...
Sep 12, 2012 Labor Photo: IUEC 10 Picnic Elevator Constructors Local 10 members and their families enjoyed barbecue and perfect weather at IUEC 10's Picnic last Saturday... more...
Sep 12, 2012 Labor Hosting Barbeque Fundraiser for Mendelson Thursday Numerous unions are joining to host a barbeque fundraiser for DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson... more...
Sep 11, 2012 DC Teachers Support Striking Chicago Teachers Saying that "It's essential for teachers across the country to join together in solidarity to ensure that teachers—who spend every day educating our students—are valued and respected," WTU Local 6 President Nathan Saunders came out strongly in support of striking Chicago teachers yesterday... more...
Sep 11, 2012 IBEW 1900 Talks Continue at Pepco Pepco workers who jumped into action to restore power for area residents after Saturday's storm continue to face tough negotiations... more...
Sep 11, 2012 Activists Rally for "Good Jobs, Affordable Medicine and a Healthy Environment," against TPP With negotiations on the biggest Free Trade Agreement in U.S. history held last weekend in Virginia, activists flooded in to make their voices heard against the Trans-Pacific Partnership... more...
Sep 11, 2012 PG Job Training Applications Posted Online Applications have been posted online for free training for jobs in the hospitality industry for Prince George's County residents aged 18-24... more...
Sep 10, 2012 St Mary's College Workers OK New Pact An immediate $1,000 pay raise was the highlight of a new contract unanimously ratified Friday by 84 workers at St. Mary's College of Maryland... more...
Sep 10, 2012 Labor Photo: Local 10 Members Help Honor Labor Day Two members of Elevator Constructors Local 10 were chosen to lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery... more...
Sep 10, 2012 Labor Quiz: What's a Siderographer? The siderographer's union was formed in 1899; siderographers were: a type of telegrapher, hot-type typesetters, or printing plate engravers? more...
Sep 7, 2012 THIS JUST IN: Live from the DNC "We're fully engaged and ready to go," reported Metro Council President Jos Williams from the floor of the Democratic National Convention yesterday... more...
Sep 7, 2012 CSA Golf Tourney Benefits Those in Need Golfers from AFGE, ATU 689, UFCW 400 and other area unions and supporters like Ashcraft & Gerel, Kaiser and United Healthcare on Monday, September 24 at the Community Services Agency’s annual Golf Tournament... more...
Sep 7, 2012 Labor Cranks Up Walks & Voter Registration Efforts With turnout the key to victory in this year's elections, unions and their allies are cranking up labor walks and voter registration efforts across the metro area... more...
Sep 6, 2012 DC Bill Would Protect Injured Government Workers Members of a Fort Totten trash collection crew hospitalized recently due to exposure to toxic vapors while on the job may face major hurdles when they try to get the workers’ compensation and health care benefits they need to recover. “We have advised hundreds of injured workers... more...
Sep 6, 2012 Free Hospitality Industry Job Training Available for Young PG County Workers Prince George’s County residents aged 18-24 can get free training for jobs in the hospitality industry, thanks to a grant from the Greater Washington Workforce Development Collaborative of the Community Foundation to the Community Services Agency, The Training Source, and Prince George’s... more...
Sep 6, 2012 Trans-Pacific Partnership Protest in Leesburg on Sunday Negotiations on the biggest Free Trade Agreement in U.S. history are coming to Leesburg this week... more...
Sep 6, 2012 Sharing Union City Now you can easily share Union City stories using your favorite social media networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, My Space and dozens more. Look for the "sharethis" link at the top of each archived news article on the Metro Washington Council's website and simply click on the icon that... more...
Sep 5, 2012 Mendelson & Ervin Take Stand for Displaced Service Workers Bill D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) and Montgomery County Council member Valerie Ervin (D-District 5) teamed up in Sunday’s Washington Post to urge support for the Displaced Service Workers bill, coming up for a vote September 18 at the Montgomery County Council. Noting... more...
Sep 5, 2012 Support Your Local Labor FilmFest It’s not too late to support this year’s DC Labor FilmFest; the deadline for ads in the FilmFest program guide has been extended through this Friday, September 7. Click here for the 2012 ratesheet for FilmFest sponsor ads and email cgarlock@dclabor.org to reserve space. “We’ve just... more...
Sep 5, 2012 CSA's News You Can Use: Helping Hurricane Isaac's Victims Although much less dramatic than Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Isaac has also created a huge amount of physical devastation, report CSA’s colleagues on the Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast United Ways have launched a regional website to raise funds for immediate relief and long term recovery and... more...
Sep 4, 2012 Bill Fletcher on "21 Myths about Unions" "It is far from uncommon to come across very intelligent people who have no idea what a union is,” Bill Fletcher Jr. says. “For those of us active in the labor movement this is frequently difficult to believe, but it is true. I flew next to a woman in her 30s who had absolutely no idea... more...
Sep 4, 2012 Labor's Voices on the Air Voices of labor were heard yesterday on WPFW (89.3 FM), as the Metro Washington Council’s Jos Williams, Susan Storer Clark of the DC Labor Chorus, AFGE 12 Executive Vice President Eleanor Lauderdale and Darryl Moch of the Labor Heritage Foundation shared stories about Labor Day,... more...
Sep 4, 2012 Union Voice, Readers Write: Labor Day Edition Kudos; Updated/New Events Labor Day Edition Kudos: “Great edition,” writes AFSCME 2910's Saul Schniderman (8/31 Labor Day Edition). “Thanks for airing the Maguire controversy!” Adds UNITE HERE Local 25 Executive Secretary-Treasurer John A. Boardman “This is a great Labor Day edition. Nice work.... more...
Aug 31, 2012 Central Labor Union's Role in Creating Labor Day It’s well-known that Labor Day was created by the American labor movement to celebrate the social and economic achievements of American workers. Less known is the key role of a Central Labor Union in founding the national holiday. While some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general... more...
Aug 27, 2012 Washington Electricians Team Up to Bring the Hungry More Than Food Dave McCord, a 25-year member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is bringing his passions for riding bicycles and changing lives together... more...
Aug 27, 2012 Activists Seek Better Conditions For Restaurant Workers At dinnertime one day last week, Daniel Rosove called for the manager at Ulla Bistro on U Street in DC. Rosove didn't want to complain; he wanted to give her flowers... more...
Aug 24, 2012 Union Summer Students Learn to Make Change With Labor Day around the corner, dozens of Union Summer students across the country are reflecting on a summer spent in the field building worker power... more...
Aug 24, 2012 DC City Workers Get Furlough Pay Back Nearly 22,000 DC government employees who were required to take furlough days in 2011 are getting their pay back... more...
Aug 23, 2012 Federal Workers Slam Pay Freeze Extension Despite acknowledging that "civilian federal employees have already made significant sacrifices as a result of a two-year pay freeze," Obama announced that he is extending the pay freeze... more...
Aug 23, 2012 "Howard Four" Campaign Heats Up Supporters of the "Howard Four" are stepping up their campaign against the recent firing of four workers at Howard University's WHUT-TV... more...
Aug 23, 2012 NoVA Launches Labor Walks in Battle for VA Vote Even more than four years ago, Northern Virginia is in play in November's Presidential election, making labor turnout critical this year... more...
Aug 22, 2012 Thank a Worker Today From Metro workers to supermarket clerks, cops on the corner and the janitors who clean our offices, workers make the world run... more...
Aug 22, 2012 Registration for Golf Tournament in Full Swing The 2012 CSA Golf Tournament is fast approaching... more...
Aug 22, 2012 Labor Quiz: Letter Carriers Founding The National Association of Letter Carriers was formed in 1889. Where did the 60 letter carriers from 18 states gather to form the union? more...
Aug 21, 2012 WTU Welcomes New DCPS Teachers With students across the nation's capital getting ready to head back to school, WTU released a new video highlighting the work local educators do and the importance of the local union more...
Aug 21, 2012 Partnering for Job Readiness Training "No one should have to pay to go to school," said Deborah Grinder. "Too many grants and scholarships are wasted because people don't know about them." more...
Aug 21, 2012 From the Picket Line to Online With over 1,500 followers on @DClabor on Twitter, the Metro Council shares updates from the front lines on pickets and protests, local negotiations, and political action in the DC metro area... more...
Aug 20, 2012 Pepco Workers Extend Contract Again, Continue Talks IBEW Local 1900 on Friday night extended its contract with Pepco through September 16... more...
Aug 20, 2012 Future of the Labor Movement Gathers in DC Members of the DC Young Trade Unionists and NoVa YELL didn't have to travel far to meet young labor leaders from across the country this weekend as the AFL-CIO held its first Young Worker Leadership Institute... more...
Aug 20, 2012 Travel in Solidarity "Happy Labor Day travel!" says Union Plus, which reminds us that "Hard-working union members help us enjoy travel every day..." more...
Aug 17, 2012 This Just In: Paul Ryan in VA Controversial GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan will be in Ballston today for a 5:30p fundraiser at the Westin in Arlington... more...
Aug 17, 2012 Fired WHUT-TV Worker "Disappointed" by Howard's Lack of Compassion Tony Hawkins should be mad. The veteran broadcast technician was one of four WHUT-TV workers summarily fired last month after they rejected a contract offer from management... more...
Aug 17, 2012 AFGE Members Elect J. David Cox President of Nation's Largest Federal and D.C. Government Workers Union J. David Cox was elected national president of the American Federation of Government Employees during the union's 39th National Convention in Las Vegas this week... more...
Aug 16, 2012 Labor Vows to "Keep Pushing" in Wake of PG Gaming Bill Passage Labor and community supporters played a key role in the passage of the bill expanding gambling to Prince George's County in Maryland. more...
Aug 16, 2012 Summertime Solidarity for Unite Here Local 23 “The fight for sustainable food is the fight for sustainable jobs, and we need to organize ourselves” said a cafeteria worker at Georgetown Law school to a room full of workers, students and food justice advocates. more...
Aug 15, 2012 WHUT-TV Workers Battle Union-Busting at Howard Barely a week after WHUT-TV workers rejected management's contract and authorized a strike in early July, WHUT-TV fired four of its six union-represented technicians... more...
Aug 15, 2012 CSA News You Can Use: "Building Futures" Now Accepting Applications With plenty of people looking for work, the Community Services Agency is calling on community members to spread the word about the upcoming Building Futures pre-apprenticeship construction program... more...
Aug 14, 2012 Best Local Website AFGE named AFGE Local 476 the winner of their nationwide 2012 Communications Contest for Best Local Website... more...
Aug 14, 2012 DOL Secretary Commends Local Apprenticeship Programs Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act, Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis recognized local leaders in apprenticeship programs... more...
Aug 14, 2012 40,000-Strong Rally says "Workers Stand For America" Tens of thousands of workers from across the country gathered in Philadelphia last weekend for the "Workers Stand for America" rally... more...
Aug 13, 2012 Building the Next Generation of UFCW 400 Leadership "While most young adults soaked up the summer sun, two Local 400 members were in Amherst, Mass. attending the UALE Northeast Summer School for Union Women" reports UFCW Local 400... more...
Aug 13, 2012 COPE Report: Now's The Time to Register to Vote With November's general election just around the corner, union members across the country are spreading the word and getting out the vote... more...
Aug 13, 2012 Labor Quiz: A. Philip Randolph Early in his career, labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph organized a union of what kind of workers in New York City? more...
Aug 10, 2012 Verizon Strike Anniversary Marked To show that telecom giant Verizon is still "turning their back" a year after its workers struck, CWA Local 2108 members and allies... more...
Aug 10, 2012 Pepco Union Continues to Hammer Utility on Short-Staffing Short-staffing by Pepco contributed to the prolonged outages after the June 29 derecho storm, IBEW Local 1900 told the Maryland Public Service Commission hearing on Tuesday... more...
Aug 10, 2012 'Labor Night at the Nats' a Home Run for CSA With 5,000 tickets sold, last Friday's Labor Night at the Nats netted nearly $5,000 for the Community Services Agency’s Emergency Assistance Fund... more...
Aug 9, 2012 "IN Charge" Puts Spotlight on Local's Service IBEW Local 26's 2012 Motorcycle Riders' Club Poker Run raised over $8,000 for the Special Love for Children with Cancer charity earlier this year... more...
Aug 9, 2012 Volunteers Needed to Dine Out for Justice Want a side of sniffles with that meal? The Paid Sick Days for All campaign is using Restaurant Week to generate support for restaurant workers who don’t get paid sick days... more...
Aug 9, 2012 Readers Write: When is a Wobblie a Wobbly? "Check your spelling on Wobblie," wrote Saul Schniderman (AFSCME 2910, Library of Congress Professional Guild), responding to an item in Tuesday's "Today's Labor History"... more...
Aug 8, 2012 Building Futures Grad Grateful for Entry into Construction Career Thomas Dreher is finishing his second week on the job and the first-year apprentice at Bowen Engineering loves it... more...
Aug 8, 2012 MD COPE Report: Labor to Lobby at Special Session on Gaming in Annapolis Area labor leaders and activists are heading to Annapolis tomorrow to lobby the House of Delegates in support of a bill approving a voter referendum this Fall on expanding gaming to National Harbor... more...
Aug 7, 2012 Job Readiness Students Get Ground-Floor View of Cleaning Industry "Do the best I could -- be the best I could be." That's Arnold Hamilton's approach to every job... more...
Aug 7, 2012 CLCs, State Feds Build Solidarity with Creative Tactics "Forget the kissing booth, a hug from a 'union thug' is so much better" writes Jackie Totora in the AFL-CIO NOW Blog... more...
Aug 7, 2012 Workers to Rally Around "Second Bill of Rights" Seats are still available on the AFL-CIO's free bus from DC to the "Workers Stand for America" Rally in Philadelphia, where thousands are expected... more...
Aug 6, 2012 Labor in the News: Members of IATSE 22 Put on a Show Accustomed to being behind the scenes, the members of IATSE Local 22 were in the spotlight last week with a "Washington Post" article on the work that goes into a Verizon Center concert... more...
Aug 6, 2012 Activists Tell Smithsonian to Keep Wings Away from African American Museum The fight for workplace rights hit the National Mall last week as dozens of protesters gathered at the main offices of the Smithsonian Institution... more...
Aug 6, 2012 'Labor Night at the Nats' is a Hit Thousands of union members headed to the ball park Saturday with friends and family for the first double-header Labor Night at the Nats... more...
Aug 6, 2012 Coming Up This Week This week is full of local action. Here are a few highlights; check the labor calendar for the latest upcoming events... more...
Aug 6, 2012 Labor Quiz: Cesar's Military Service Before embarking on his inspiring career as a farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez served two years in which branch of the U.S. military? more...
Aug 3, 2012 THIS JUST IN: AFGE and TSA Agree to Historic Labor Contract AFGE announced yesterday that it had reached agreement with TSA on the first-ever labor contract at the agency... more...
Aug 3, 2012 AFL-CIO: Federal Employees Already Have Given Enough All efforts to privatize, outsource, reduce, undermine, politicize, underpay or undervalue the work performed on behalf of working families by our federal workforce should be vigorously opposed... more...
Aug 3, 2012 DC Labor FilmFest Reaches Out The expanding global network of labor film festivals was the topic of a panel in late July at the 19th annual LaborFest in San Francisco, CA... more...
Aug 3, 2012 Cooking Out the Union Way From hotdogs and sausages to condiments, chips, and even ice cream, the AFL-CIO's handy new downloadable "Made In America" cookout shopping list has everything you need to celebrate the summer while supporting union workers... more...
Aug 2, 2012 "We Will Not Let Shoppers Dump Financial Problems On Our Members' Backs" UFCW 400's McNutt Says UFCW 400 members at Shoppers Food and Pharmacy are hoping it's not dÃ©jÃ vu all over again... more...
Aug 2, 2012 Union Voice: Readers Write "Wow, that story about the IATSE guy's pilgrimage was moving and inspiring," writes Elise Bryant... more...
Aug 2, 2012 "White House Burning" Wraps Up Summer Book Group Series Political gridlock. Unprecedented debt. A dysfunctional Congress. The AFL-CIO Summer Book Group's edge-of-your-seat series wraps up this Friday... more...
Aug 1, 2012 Vote on MontCo Displaced Worker Bill Postponed A vote on a bill that would protect low wage service workers in Montgomery County has been put off until September... more...
Aug 1, 2012 CWA, Baltimore Community Members Rally Against "Job-Killing" Verizon-Big Cable Deal More than 100 members of CWA and concerned Baltimore citizens rallied at Baltimore's City Hall... to urge city officials to oppose a "job-killing deal"... more...
Aug 1, 2012 IATSE Retiree Completes Camino de Santiago Walk "When I finally took my first step on the actual Camino, on April 19th, in St Jean Pieds de Port, I abandoned all notions of self, determined to press on with an open mind..." more...
Jul 31, 2012 Civista Nurses Ratify New Contract Last week nurses at Civista Medical Center in Maryland -- represented by 1199SEIU -- unanimously voted to ratify a new three-year contract... more...
Jul 31, 2012 Transit Union Leader Seeks to Inspire Young Workers Urging young people to reach higher and pursue their goals, Jackie Jeter, President of ATU Local 689, recently challenged students in the Covenant House job readiness program to "always try for something better"... more...
Jul 31, 2012 "Collective Bargains" from UnionPlus The UnionPlus website is packed with discounts and money-saving information for union members and their families... more...
Jul 31, 2012 Summertime Training for Union Women Registration is still open for union women looking to strengthen their knowledge and build their skills at this summer's Southern School for Union Women... more...
Jul 30, 2012 THIS JUST IN: Pepco & IBEW 1900 Negotiations Extended Pepco and IBEW Local 1900 are extending negotiations for another 3 weeks... more...
Jul 30, 2012 Laurel Walmart Makes Workers Pay for Storm Damage The Respect DC Coalition is reporting "a serious situation… developing at the Walmart in Laurel, MD," where workers have long been organizing for workplace respect through OUR Walmart... more...
Jul 30, 2012 DC Bus Planned for 8/11 "Workers Stand for America" Demo in Philly Workers from across the country will gather in Philadelphia August 11 to call for a "second Bill of Rights" that ensures an American economy that supports working families... more...
Jul 30, 2012 HBO's 'The Newsroom' Takes on Koch Brothers "If The Wall Street Journal is complaining about it, 'The Newsroom' must be doing something right for working people"... more...
Jul 30, 2012 Labor Quiz: The Battle of Blair Mountain Which of the following occurred during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain...? more...
Jul 27, 2012 10th Annual Dad's Day Poker Run Supports Nearly 150 riders participated in the 10th Annual Dad's Day Poker Run to support diabetes research on June 16... more...
Jul 27, 2012 Labor On The Move: Eitches Elected President of AFGE Council 222 Eddie Eitches, President of AFGE Local 476 at HUD, was recently elected president of AFGE Council 222, which includes all HUD locals nationwide more...
Jul 27, 2012 "Abusive" Hyatt Hotels Target of Global Boycott Travelers worldwide are being urged to avoid Hyatt hotels as Hyatt workers and their supporters launched a global "Hyatt Hurts" boycott of the hotel chain... more...
Jul 26, 2012 CVS Pharmacists Ratify New Agreement Over 500 pharmacists at CVS in DC and Maryland, represented by UFCW Local 400, voted in favor of a new two-and-a-half year contract earlier this month... more...
Jul 26, 2012 Boss Threatened Senate Food Service Workers, Union Says The Workers United Mid-Atlantic Regional Joint Board may file charges after a union vote by Senate food service workers failed earlier this week... more...
Jul 26, 2012 MD COPE Report: MontCo Construction Workers Welcome New Safety Regs Construction workers in Montgomery County are looking forward to safer working conditions thanks to new regulations on county construction projects... more...
Jul 25, 2012 Local #5 Employee Wins Top Women's Award at Shoot Iron Worker Local 5's Office Manager Marlene Forsyth won the Lady's Individual High Shooter award at the AFL-CIO's Fourth Annual Capital Area Sporting Clays Shoot... more...
Jul 24, 2012 Nurses, Allies say "We Can End AIDS" with "Robin Hood" Tax National Nurses United will take to the streets today with tens of thousands of activists, drawing attention to the need for funding for AIDS treatment... more...
Jul 24, 2012 Labor on the Move: Local 1759 Mourns Bill Dameron IAM Grand Lodge Auditor Bill Dameron passed away on June 24 after an illness. "The IAM has lost a devoted family man and loyal trade unionist..." more...
Jul 24, 2012 "We Want MORE!" Say Union City Readers Union City continues to be a valued daily resource for its 30,000 area readers, according to our most recent Reader Survey... more...
Jul 24, 2012 Nurses Join AIDS March to "Heal America" "Nurses heal America, that's why we're here today," said RN Sandra Falwell, holding one end of a banner proclaiming "Nurses Say a Robin Hood Tax Can End HIV/AIDS" more...
Jul 23, 2012 CWA & IBEW Ask for Mediation in Verizon Contract Talks Unable to negotiate an agreement for over a year, CWA and the IBEW have asked the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to step in to help with negotiations with Verizon Communications... more...
Jul 23, 2012 Labor on the Move: DCNA's King Appointed to Policy Board DC Mayor Vincent Gray on July 2 appointed Brenda King, DCNA Legislative Liaison as the designee representative of the DCNA to the DC Health Information Exchange Policy Board... more...
Jul 23, 2012 IUEC 10 Member's Son a Top-10 Finisher at NatGeo Bee Adam Rusak, a top-10 finisher in the recent 2012 National Geographic Bee, is the son of Elevator Constructors Local 10 member Andy Rusak, who works for Quality Elevator... more...
Jul 23, 2012 Labor Quiz: Pay Inequity For every dollar men earn in America, how much do women workers make: 77 cents, 82 cents, or 89 cents? more...
Jul 20, 2012 SEIU 400 Scholarships Feed Student's Dreams Twenty-four-year-old Korey Richardson, a custodian at Kettering Middle School in Prince George's County, hopes to own his own design studio some day... more...
Jul 20, 2012 Court Says BID Must Negotiate with Workers After three long years, the SAMS may finally get the contract they’ve been fighting for... more...
Jul 20, 2012 Free Performances Bring Harry Bridges & Thomas Paine to Life The story of "one of the most important labor leaders of the 20th century" comes to vivid life this Sunday in a free one-man performance by Ian Ruskin... more...
Jul 20, 2012 CSA Maps Out Strategic Plans A full-day retreat July 13 was the most recent step in the Community Services Agency's ongoing process to evaluate programs, board performance, funding diversity and planning for the future... more...
Jul 19, 2012 Parents Say School Librarians Not Expendable With hand-drawn signs reading "Have a Cookie, Save a Librarian" and "Show Good Taste, Support Our Librarians," DC families gathered outside the Wilson Building last week to support school librarians... more...
Jul 19, 2012 Guild Protests Threat of Contract Impasse at APWU Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild 32035 members turned out in force July 11 to protest American Postal Workers Union management's plan to declare an impasse in bargaining talks July 20... more...
Jul 19, 2012 Countdown to Opening Pitch Friday is the final deadline to purchase tickets to Labor Night at the Nats on August 3. Thousands of union members and labor allies are planning to attend the annual event... more...
Jul 18, 2012 Ironworkers 5 Apprentices Get High Marks Ironworkers Local 5 members brought home the gold and silver last month at the Ironworkers' Mid-Atlantic District Council’s Outstanding Apprenticeship Competition... more...
Jul 18, 2012 Verizon Disrespects Techs Who Repaired Storm Damage Verizon technicians, members of CWA locals across Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, raced to restore service to the Mid-Atlantic region earlier this month after a series of fatal, power-cutting thunderstorms... more...
Jul 18, 2012 Labor on the Move: Charles Moore Wraps Up 40 Years at WTU 6 After serving six presidents of Washington Teachers Union Local 6 over the last four decades, Charles Moore is retiring... more...
Jul 17, 2012 DC Security Officers Ratify New 4-Year Contract Private security officers in Washington, D.C. have unanimously ratified a new four-year contract covering 1,700 officers who protect most commercial office buildings in the District... more...
Jul 17, 2012 Last Chance for Labor Night at the Nats Friday is your last chance to get tickets for the August 3 Labor Night at the Nats... more...
Jul 17, 2012 Labor on the Move: Martin Schwartz Leaves JLC Jewish Labor Committee Executive Director Martin Schwartz wrapped up his time at JLC at the end of June... more...
Jul 17, 2012 Labor Quiz: The Jungle Who wrote "The Jungle", which exposed safety and sanitation hazards in the Chicago meatpacking industry? more...
Jul 16, 2012 Pepco Union Faults Short-Staffing for Long Outages Short-staffing at Pepco is as much to blame for the recent power outages as Mother Nature, according to the union that represents over 1,000 Pepco workers... more...
Jul 16, 2012 Norton Joins Call for DC Workers at Smithsonian African American Museum DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has joined the call for the Smithsonian African American Museum to ensure that D.C. workers are hired for museum construction... more...
Jul 16, 2012 Piedmont Agents Ratify First Contract Fleet and passenger service agents at Piedmont Airlines, who voted to join CWA in November 2010, overwhelmingly ratified their first contract by a 94 percent vote, the union announced July 5... more...
Jul 13, 2012 "T-Mobile Girl" Says "Bring Jobs Home" If T-Mobile customers in downtown Washington DC were surprised to see the leather-clad "T-Mobile Girl" roar up on a motorcycle outside the 11th and E Street store yesterday... more...
Jul 13, 2012 DC Residents Protest Discrimination by African American Museum Contractor A coalition of black job seekers, community groups, faith leaders, and "mad-as-hell" District residents marched on the site of the future Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to protest the treatment of black job seekers... more...
Jul 13, 2012 Beach Books for Tough Times Drama, betrayal, the struggle to survive. This summer the AFL-CIO is taking beach reading to a whole new level with a Friday lunchtime series... more...
Jul 12, 2012 What Teachers Are Saying About Unions and Their Profession Today's teachers want their union to protect them, but they also want it to engage in reform... more...
Jul 12, 2012 Labor Photo: Retirees Rally Against RI Pension Cuts Dozens of retirees rallied against deep cuts to Rhode Island's public pensions outside the law offices of McKenna, Long & Aldridge Tuesday night.... more...
Jul 12, 2012 Activists, "T-Mobile Girl" say "Bring Jobs Home" At today's noontime rally activists – along with their very own "T-Mobile Girl" – will speak out about T-Mobile closing call centers and offshoring jobs... more...
Jul 12, 2012 THIS JUST IN: Shoppers Workers Ratify Strong New Contract Members of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 working at Shoppers Food & Pharmacy on Thursday ratified a new, two-year collective bargaining agreement that raises their living standards, protects their health and retirement security, and is comparable to the contract recently... more...
Jul 11, 2012 DC Council Tables Woodson Nomination The DC City Council voted 8-4 yesterday to table the nomination of Roderic L. Woodson to the DC Water Board of Directors... more...
Jul 11, 2012 Labor Photo: Candlelight Vigil Against Walmart Faith, labor, and community activists gathered Monday night at the proposed Walmart location in Ward 4 for a candlelight vigil... more...
Jul 11, 2012 Union Voice/Readers Write: Where's Hiring Hall? "Is the DC jobs market so bad that you just don't have anything to post, or has 'Union City' just stopped publishing the Wednesday 'Union Hiring Hall' listing?" more...
Jul 11, 2012 Companies that Profit by Investing in Employees Investing in employees is one of the best ways for companies to be successful... more...
Jul 10, 2012 Taxi Drivers Call for Protests Ahead of Council Vote Hundreds of DC taxi drivers flooded the street across from the Wilson Building yesterday -- and say they’ll be back again today -- in anticipation of today’s scheduled vote on the "Taxicab Service Improvement Act of 2012"... more...
Jul 10, 2012 Metro Labor Applauds Council Members' Commitment to Table Woodson Nomination Following a day of intense lobbying by labor and community activists, Metro Council President Jos Williams released a letter yesterday applauding the resulting commitment by seven DC City Councilmembers... more...
Jul 10, 2012 CSA's News You Can Use: IBEW 26 Medical Supply There's a creative and useful way area union retirees are helping their fellow members reduce costs... more...
Jul 10, 2012 Edna Award Nominations Open Young women leaders in the social justice movement are headed for the spotlight with the Berger-Marks Foundation accepting nominations for the 2012 Edna Award... more...
Jul 9, 2012 Activists Contact City Council in Countdown to Woodson Vote Community and labor activists are moving fast to demand the DC City Council oppose the nomination of anti-union, anti-DC resident Rod Woodson to the WASA Board before tomorrow's anticipated vote... more...
Jul 9, 2012 VA Downgrades Stopped as Vets Speak Out Just weeks after hundreds of VA employees took to the streets to demand an end to "unfounded and arbitrary downgrades" for low-wage employees at the Department of Veteran Affairs, the VA announced a decision to halt the downgrades more...
Jul 9, 2012 Labor Photo: NoVa Labor Celebrates Independence Day Members of the NoVA Labor Federation braved the heat to march in the Dale City Independence Day Parade last week... more...
Jul 9, 2012 Coming Up This Week Respect DC Candle Light Prayer Vigil, "No More Nice T-Mobile" Rally... more...
Jul 9, 2012 Labor Quiz: Guthrie's Land What was the original title of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land"? more...
Jul 6, 2012 Labor on the Air Tune in to "Union Edge" on WPWC 1480 AM this Sunday to hear interviews with both Metro Council President Jos Williams and IBEW Local 1900 President Jim Griffin... more...
Jul 6, 2012 Activists to City Council: "Keep Woodson Off the WASA Board" Anti-union, anti-DC resident lobbyist Roderic Woodson has been nominated to the city’s Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) Board of Directors... more...
Jul 6, 2012 BAC Apprentices Win Big in Vegas Four BAC Local 1 apprentices swept the 2012 Western States Apprenticeship Contest last month in Las Vegas, NV... more...
Jul 6, 2012 MD COPE Report: Office Cleaners Stand Up for Job Security Cleaning workers and other property service workers are speaking out in Montgomery County against the revolving door of employers who, under current law, are free to lay them off with no notice... more...
Jul 5, 2012 DC COPE Report: Locals Mobilize Against Anti-Union Nominee to WASA Board Local unions are joining forces to stop the appointment of Roderic Woodson to the city's Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) Board of Directors... more...
Jul 5, 2012 Labor On the Move: Dave Richardson & Joan Welsh Retire Celebrations marking the retirements of two longtime local labor activists are coming up... more...
Jul 5, 2012 Local 1900 Works to Keep the Lights On in Storm Aftermath With soaring temperatures and storm damage still weighing on residents, Pepco employees -- represented by IBEW Local 1900 -- are working around the clock to restore electrical power across the DC metro area more...
Jul 3, 2012 Union Members Respond to Weekend Storm As local residents took cover from the storm that swept through Friday night, area union members were quick to jump into action all weekend... more...
Jul 3, 2012 In Memoriam: CLUW Founding Member & President Emerita Joyce D. Miller Joyce D. Miller, founding member and President Emerita of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, passed away June 30 just after her 84th birthday... more...
Jul 3, 2012 Thousands to Attend Labor Night at the Nats, Tix Still Available Over 3600 union members have purchased their Labor Night at the Nats tickets. Tickets to the August 3rd game are still available... more...
Jul 2, 2012 Tune In AFGE Local 12 Vice-President Eleanor Lauderdale will be on WPFW this morning at 9:30a to discuss the campaign to restore the Labor Hall of Fame... more...
Jul 2, 2012 Activists Look Back at 50 Years of Walmart The Respect DC coalition "celebrated" the 50th anniversary of the first Walmart store last week with a 'Walmart at 50' panel shining light on how the corporate giant has treated workers at its stores and communities it enters... more...
Jul 2, 2012 A "Riveting" Union Summer Cultural icon Rosie the Riveter is back and traveling the world this summer thanks to a playful UnionPlus project... more...
Jul 2, 2012 Labor Quiz: Henry Fonda's Migrant Role The classic film starring Henry Fonda as a migrant worker is: On Golden Pond, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Grapes of Wrath... more...
Jun 29, 2012 USPS Hunger Strike Day 4: "Arrest the Postmaster!" The 4-day hunger strike by postal service workers ended dramatically Thursday when over 100 demonstrators stormed the USPS headquarters demanding the arrest of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for slashing postal services and jobs... more...
Jun 29, 2012 Trades Push for Vote on National Harbor Resort Casino With thousands of jobs and millions in revenue at stake, gaming supporters are pushing the Maryland Assembly to bring a National Harbor casino to a vote soon... more...
Jun 29, 2012 Full House for Premiere of "Love Songs from the Liberation Wars" It was standing room only at Monday night's premiere of "Love Songs from the Liberation Wars: The 1940's Tobacco Workers Struggle," a new musical from Steve Jones and Elise Bryant... more...
Jun 29, 2012 Still Tix Available for Labor Soccer Night Sure it'll be hot tomorrow but the action on the soccer field will be even hotter as D.C. United takes on the Montreal Impact... more...
Jun 28, 2012 USPS Hunger Strike, Day 3 Ten US Postal Service hunger strikers picketed the Washington Post Wednesday, demanding the paper "tell the truth" about the cuts and closures threatening the USPS... more...
Jun 28, 2012 DC COPE Report: Rand Paul Scuttles DC Budget Bill with "Right to Work" Amendment Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) derailed the DC Budget Autonomy Act yesterday when he launched what DC Vote called "a full-scale assault on DC Home Rule"... more...
Jun 28, 2012 "Brotherhood Outdoors" Season Premiere Tonight Features IBEW 26 Member Scott Callaghan, an IBEW Local 26 member from Annapolis, MD, is a fourth-generation union member, dedicated father and former United States Marine who completed two tours overseas in the Middle East... more...
Jun 28, 2012 "Full Speed Ahead" After Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act The chants of "We love Obamacare" in front of the U.S. Supreme Court erupted into wild cheers shortly after 10a Thursday morning as word spread like wildfire that the Court had upheld Obama's Health Care Act... more...
Jun 27, 2012 THIS JUST IN Healthcare supporters plan to rally in front of the Supreme Court beginning at 9:30a Thursday, when the Supreme Court releases their decision on the Health Care Act... more...
Jun 27, 2012 Building Futures Grads Work Together to "Get the Job Done" From the US Navy to Cement Masons Local 891, veteran Paul Corbin is transitioning into a career in construction to provide for himself and for his family... more...
Jun 27, 2012 Labor Photo: USPS Hunger Strike, Day 2 Activists and allies marked Day Two of their 4-day, 10-person hunger strike to save the US Postal Service with a march to the U.S. Treasury wearing bandit masks... more...
Jun 27, 2012 Labor in the Schools Ninth graders at the Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy in Washington, DC learned about the key role of labor unions in society when they visited ATU Local 689 recently... more...
Jun 27, 2012 DC Verizon/Capital Grille Rally Video Posted A 2-minute video capturing the energy of last week's downtown DC Verizon/Capital Grille rally marking the 1-year of CWA and IBEW fighting for a fair contract... more...
Jun 27, 2012 Workers to Join Reaction to Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care Act The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act is being called one of the most historic rulings by the high court in decades... more...
Jun 26, 2012 Shoppers Warehouse Retaliating Against Workers UFCW Local 400 is urging area activists to call Shoppers Food Warehouse -- 1-855-746-7737 -- to demand that management stop retaliating against workers... more...
Jun 26, 2012 Bill Lucy Reflects on Fight for Public Sector Worker Rights Is the labor movement destined to repeat its own history? What's the outlook for unions in 21st century America in general and specifically for the rights of public employees? more...
Jun 26, 2012 DC Workers & Leaders Rally Around "First Source" Law DC City Council members, construction workers, city residents and community groups are rallying around a threatened DC jobs law... more...
Jun 26, 2012 National Labor College Graduates the Class of 2012 Seventy-eight graduates representing 25 unions and Working America, the AFL-CIO's community affiliate, received Bachelor's Degrees last Saturday from the School of Labor Studies at the National Labor College... more...
Jun 25, 2012 Postal Workers Plan Hunger Strike to Save Postal Service Saying that "America's postal service is being starved to death," a group of postal workers and supporters are planning a hunger strike... more...
Jun 25, 2012 American Rights at Work & Jobs with Justice to Merge Saying that "by combining forces, we will broaden and deepen our reach and impact to achieve what we all care so deeply about," American Rights at Work and Jobs with Justice are merging... more...
Jun 25, 2012 Labor on the Move: Kenefick Retires After more than 45 years in the labor movement, communicator Greg Kenefick retired on April 30... more...
Jun 25, 2012 "We're Not Broke" Film Explains How Nation Was Robbed The Sundance-nominated film "We're Not Broke" screens Monday (6:30p, Arlington County Library Central) as part of a nation-wide "Fair Share Tour"... more...
Jun 25, 2012 Labor Photo: The Return of the Women of Walmart Last week activists commemorated the one-year anniversary of the largest class action law suit in U.S. history: Dukes v. Walmart more...
Jun 25, 2012 Labor Quiz: The Lattimer Massacre In which state did the "Lattimer Massacre" take place: Ohio, Pennsylvania or New Jersey? more...
Jun 25, 2012 "Save Our Post Office" Hunger Strike Launched Ten postal service workers launched a 4-day hunger strike Monday morning at the U.S. Capitol, where they called on Congress to "Stop Starving the Postal Service"... more...
Jun 22, 2012 WTU Awards $80,000 in Scholarships, Invests in Future DC Teachers Stepping up their efforts to cultivate "the next generation of educators," the WTU on Tuesday doubled their scholarship award pool to $80,000 and increased the number of recipients... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Schniderman to Receive Joe Hill Award at GLAE Concert Sunday The lifetime achievements of local labor leader and activist Saul Schniderman will be in the spotlight at Sunday night's Great Labor Arts Exchange concert... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Quick Takes CWA & Allies Hold 3 Demos Today and Call to Restore Labor Hall of Fame Grows... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Labor Photo: DC Workers Get Furlough Pay Metro Council Pres. Williams lauded City Council and Mayor for repaying city workers for four furlough days they were forced to take last year... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Tentative Agreement for Howard University Hospital Workers After over 18 months without a contract, AFSCME Local 2094 members at Howard University Hospital finally have a tentative agreement... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Labor Photo: "I'll Be There" Winners Winners at last night's DC Jobs with Justice "I'll Be There" Awards at the AFL-CIO ... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Walk Explores Hidden History of DC Labor "At the banquet table of nature there are no reserved seats," read Richard Renner from the plaque on the bust of labor leader and civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph in Union Station... more...
Jun 22, 2012 Mock Funeral & Double Demos Mark Year Without Contract at Verizon Dressed in black, wearing veils, carrying a flower-laden coffin and led by "Preacher" Carl Brogden, members of CWA Local 2108 led a funeral cortege outside Verizon's Silver Spring facility Friday morning... more...
Jun 21, 2012 Local Activists Honored at DC JwJ Awards Tonight Longtime labor activist Carrie Biggs-Adams joins fellow awardees Occupy DC, the Kalmanovitz Initiative For Labor And The Working Poor and Reverend Raymond Bell tonight at DC Jobs with Justice’s 10th Annual "I'll Be There" Awards... more...
Jun 21, 2012 Council Supports USPS Hunger Strike, Demands Restoration of Labor Hall of Fame A hunger strike and restoring the Labor Hall of Fame topped the actions taken Monday at the Metro Washington Council's monthly meeting... more...
Jun 21, 2012 D.C. Residents Fed Up with Jobs Run-Around Black DC residents say they're "sick of the run-around," for construction jobs in the District... more...
Jun 20, 2012 How We Got Our Mailslots: Free Speech and Organizing at the Library of Congress As unions battle with employers over communicating with members via email, Facebook and other instantaneous communications tools, a battle by union organizers at the Library of Congress over "desk drops" nearly 40 years ago is a fascinating lesson in how some things never change... more...
Jun 20, 2012 Nurses and Allies Demand "Robin Hood" Tax In red scrubs and green Robin Hood hats, nurses took to the streets in 20 cities across the country yesterday to kick off a campaign for a "Robin Hood Tax. more...
Jun 20, 2012 Friday Deadline for 3-Day Organizing Institute for APA members There's a new opportunity for Asian Pacific American union members looking to hone their organizing skills or dive into union organizing work... more...
Jun 20, 2012 Ann Hoffman Appointed to Public Employee Relations Board NWU-DC Treasurer Ann Hoffman, who was recently re-elected first vice president of the National Writers Union, has been appointed to the District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Board... more...
Jun 19, 2012 DC City Workers Give High Marks to grade.DC.Gov City workers want their agencies to serve the public better. That's why DC government unions participated in the launch of DC's new website grade.DC.Gov last week... more...
Jun 19, 2012 Activists Celebrate New Police Procedure for Reporting Wage Theft DC workers who have been victims of wage theft by unscrupulous employers can now report the crime to police just as they would any robbery... more...
Jun 19, 2012 Paths to Success Jaki Bradley was once a teenager heading down the wrong path. Deborah Grinder was young and homeless. Today... more...
Jun 18, 2012 Labor Photo: Colossal Cat WBCTC put their brand-new Fat Cat to work last Friday targeting Prince George's County Public Schools where they say contractors have been cheating their employees of wages. more...
Jun 18, 2012 AFGE Council 1 Demands Restoration of DOL Labor Hall of Fame AFGE Council 1 is demanding that the United States Department of Labor "restore the Labor Hall of Fame"... more...
Jun 18, 2012 DC Rights Activists Cheer as Obama Halts Deportations of Undocumented Youth Local Latino, labor and community activists celebrated the surprise announcement Friday afternoon that President Obama was halting deportations for tens of thousands of undocumented youth across the country... more...
Jun 18, 2012 Labor On The Move: Building Trades Elect Laborers' Booker To Sec.-Treasurer's Post Leaders of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department elected top Laborers Union official Brent Booker as the department's Secretary-Treasurer... more...
Jun 18, 2012 Labor Quiz: Cotton Dust's Disease The disease contracted by exposure to cotton dust in inadequately ventilated working environments is called "Byssinosis," "brown lung," or "Monday fever"? more...
Jun 15, 2012 More Foreign Ag Service Workers Join Union More workers at the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) have voted to join AFSCME Council 26... more...
Jun 15, 2012 Labor Photo: Security Officers Flier Downtown Rush Hour Security officers in DC, represented by SEIU 32BJ, welcomed rush hour crowds at the Farragut North Metro Station with a banner and cheery greetings of "Good morning! Support security!" more...
Jun 15, 2012 Wrongfully Fired Construction Workers Demand Their Jobs Back Former L&M Construction employees who say they were wrongfully fired after complaining about sexual harassment, abuse, and intimidation picketed Wednesday demanding their jobs back... more...
Jun 15, 2012 DC JwJ to Celebrate Local Activists This year's DC Jobs with Justice (JwJ) "I'll Be There" Awards will celebrate four individuals and groups who have truly "been there" for DC JwJ in fights for justice across the District... more...
Jun 15, 2012 "Trash Dance" Screens at Silverdocs Sometimes inspiration can be found in unexpected places. Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and in the men and women who pick up our trash... more...
Jun 14, 2012 Vets Protest Downgrades at VHA Veterans Administration workers, many of them vets themselves, rallied and marched Wednesday to protest the downgrading of the Veterans Health Administration's lowest-paid employees... more...
Jun 14, 2012 "Block the Deal" CWA Urges FCC "Hey hey FCC, We don't want monopoly!" chanted hundreds of CWA members outside the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) building at noontime Wednesday... more...
Jun 14, 2012 Grocery Workers Mobilize for Shoppers Bargaining Declaring that workers will not pay the price for corporate mismanagement, members of UFCW Local 400 working at Shoppers Food & Pharmacy are forming an Activist Contract Team... more...
Jun 14, 2012 It Takes More Than a Shoebox "Thanks again to everyone who contributed so generously to the recent United Way Shoebox Project"... more...
Jun 13, 2012 AFGE Rallies for Disabled Vets & Other VHA Workers In the ongoing assault on public sector workers, federal employees have become a regular target of Republican leaders... more...
Jun 13, 2012 Arts for Activists at Great Labor Arts Exchange From a film about the founders of the UAW to a workshop on the songs of the Occupy Movement and a session on “Using Social Media to Organize and Push Your Message"... more...
Jun 13, 2012 DC Workers Walking Tour DC is rich with workers history. This Saturday a walking tour of downtown DC will reveal labor's often-untold story of power and resistance in the nation’s capital... more...
Jun 13, 2012 DC United Hosts Labor Soccer Fans AFL-CIO staffer -- and diehard soccer fan -- Kevin Byrne has worked with the DC United to organize a Labor Night on June 30 more...
Jun 12, 2012 Labor Takes Pride in LGBT Solidarity Their t-shirts reading "Sleep with the right people" and "LGBT Labor," members of Unite Here locals 23 and 25 participated in the Pride Parade... more...
Jun 12, 2012 Metro DC Labor Stands with Wisconsin Workers, Looks Forward to November "This is one battle in a long, long protracted war" said Metro Council President Jos Williams yesterday in a live TV interview about the Wisconsin recall election... more...
Jun 12, 2012 Labor Night at the Nats When was the last time you heard about a true baseball double-header, when you buy one ticket and get to see both games?! That's what’s on the schedule for Friday, August 3, the 6th annual Labor Night at the Nationals more...
Jun 12, 2012 Union City Should "Be more realistic" "Be more realistic in your assessment of the news," suggests a Union City Reader Survey respondent... more...
Jun 11, 2012 Walmart Pays Ward 4 Canvassers More than Associates Ward 4 residents were surprised last week to find Walmart-hired canvassers covering neighborhoods in postcards hailing the virtues of the retail giant entering the community... more...
Jun 11, 2012 Coming Up This Week Mark your calendar for these upcoming events. For more local labor rallies, protests, conferences, and more, check the DC labor calendar... more...
Jun 11, 2012 CSA & Partners Win $150,000 Hospitality Training Grant A consortium that includes the Metro Council's Community Services Agency has just won a $150,000 grant to train hospitality workers in Prince George’s County... more...
Jun 11, 2012 Labor Quiz: Lewis' Middle Name? You probably know that John L. Lewis was president of the United Mine Workers, but what did the "L" stand for? more...
Jun 8, 2012 Activists Confront Verizon Board Member Verizon board member Rodney Slater ran, but he couldn't hide from activists Wednesday... more...
Jun 8, 2012 Labor in the News: AFSCME Council 26's Goldman on Federal Impact of Wisconsin Vote AFSCME Council 26 Executive Director Carl Goldman told The Washington Post he can't imagine Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's recent victory "emboldening [congressional Republicans] any more than they already are"... more...
Jun 8, 2012 DC COPE Report: Metro Council Joins Call on Congress to Strike Proposed Restriction on Spending of Local Tax Dollars The Metro Council signed onto a June 5 letter from Council ally DC Vote urging Congress "to oppose any effort to force Congress' views on the District of Columbia through the fiscal year 2013 budget"... more...
Jun 7, 2012 IATSE 22 Urges Support for Fully Funding Arts in the District With arts funding in the nation’s capital facing "devastating cuts," IATSE Local 22 is calling on area activists and artists to demand that the City Council keep funding the arts... more...
Jun 7, 2012 Award-Winning Short Doc Screening Tonight When it comes to politics, retired coal miner Sebert Pertee sees one big problem: the rich keep getting richer while working people lose ground... more...
Jun 7, 2012 Labor Steps Up for Shoebox Project An SUV overflowing with shoeboxes left the Community Services Agency yesterday... more...
Jun 7, 2012 Working Families Win Wisconsin State Senate, Vow to Hold Politicians to Account Yesterday's Wisconsin election results, in which Governor Scott Walker (R) held onto his office but lost the state Senate, "is not the end of the story..." more...
Jun 6, 2012 Walker Rides to Victory on "Flood of secret corporate cash" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, fueled by $31 million in right-wing/GOP/business contributions, beat back a recall challenge Tuesday... more...
Jun 6, 2012 Workers Win in Council Votes on Furloughs, Annual Leave, Healthcare and Immigration It was a busy day in the Wilson Building yesterday, as the DC City Council debated issues from the repayment of city worker furlough days to the "Secure Communities" immigration program... more...
Jun 6, 2012 Occupiers Stand with Retired DC EMT Against Eviction A sign in the lobby of JP Morgan Chase's homeownership office in downtown D.C. read, "Banks don't need homes, People do!" more...
Jun 6, 2012 Why You Read Union City "I read Union City to get a quick look at what is going on in DC," writes Gwen Bradley in response to our annual Union City Reader Survey... more...
Jun 5, 2012 DC COPE Report: Ending "Pay-to-Play" Politics in DC DC Ballot Initiative 70, which prohibits corporations and other business entities from making certain direct political contributions "Is a vital effort to get money out of politics..." more...
Jun 5, 2012 Verizon Workers Leaflet Radiohead Concert Radiohead fans loved the corporate piggy... more...
Jun 5, 2012 UFCW 400 Helps Evergreen Supermarket Workers Win Back Wages After working for as long as six weeks without being paid, workers at Evergreen Supermarket in Hillcrest Heights, MD finally received their back wages... more...
Jun 4, 2012 District Activists Dialed In to Wisconsin Recall Election Despite millions of dollars spent by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the Koch Brothers and other right-wing groups, another poll out last Friday showed a "dead heat" as the race entered its final hours... more...
Jun 4, 2012 Occupy Our Homes Fights Eviction of DC Union Retiree Occupy Our Homes DC helped stop the eviction of Bertina Jones and today at noon will rally to keep Deborah Harris in her home... more...
Jun 4, 2012 DC Council to Vote on Restoring Fairness for City Workers With three big items affecting city workers on the DC City Council agenda, a strong showing of labor leaders and union members is expected at tomorrow's legislative session... more...
Jun 4, 2012 Union City: Always Room for Improvement While the initial response to our annual Union City Reader Survey has been overwhelmingly positive, a number of readers have also made specific suggestions... more...
Jun 4, 2012 OPEIU 2's Virginia Rodino gets CCBC Student Achievement Award Virginia Rodino, Chief Steward for OPEIU Local 2 at SEIU headquarters in Washington, received the 2012 Student Achievement Award for the Labor Studies Program... more...
Jun 1, 2012 Festive Parade Challenges Walmart Push Into DC It was an unusual parade, to say the least. The main float featured a bed in which Walmart developers waving handfuls of cash cavorted with DC Councilmembers. Another was draped with a giant blue octopus. Marchers chanted anti-Walmart slogans and waved signs urging “Keep DC Walmart Free” and... more...
Jun 1, 2012 DCNA Donates to ShoeBox Project; Deadline Extended The DC Nurses Association contributed over 70 personal care kits to the United Way ShoeBox Project this week. The kits include DCNA sticker-studded re-usable plastic boxes, “A great way to promote the union while helping the needy,” says Community Services Agency Executive Director Kathleen... more...
Jun 1, 2012 Weekend Hours Added at AFL-CIO Walker Phonebank With the latest polls showing the Walker recall effort deadlocked 49-49 percent with turnout the key, the AFL-CIO has extended hours today and added two shifts this weekend to get the Wisconsin union vote out in next Tuesday’s recall election: today, Friday, June 1: 10a-8p; Saturday, June 2:... more...
May 31, 2012 Firefighters Remember "Fallen Heroes" “Today is the day that Washington, DC Firefighters set aside to remember fallen heroes, and to pray that no one else will ever have to die for us again,” said Fire Fighters Local 36 President Ed Smith Tuesday at the annual observance of Firefighter Memorial Day. “Today we will read... more...
May 31, 2012 'Walmart at 50' Retail Worker Parade Today It's pretty rare for Walmart to back away from a challenge. The world's largest retailer – which celebrates 50 years in business this year -- has been known to fly union-busters from headquarters in Arkansas to intimidate and fire organizers in a single day. So when Walmart announced... more...
May 31, 2012 Help Recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Help get out the vote to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: join the AFL-CIO phone banking effort. Hours of operation: Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. To volunteer or receive further information about how your department or organization can “adopt a shift” please e-mail or call... more...
May 30, 2012 Labor Unions Urge MD Assembly to Return for Summer Special Session on Gaming A coalition of unions is urging the General Assembly and Governor O'Malley to return to the State House later this summer to move the state forward on gaming. Members of the Washington D.C. Building Trades Council, Unite Here Local 25 and the American... more...
May 30, 2012 Walker Recall Going Down to the Wire Working families across the country have been joining together in unprecedented ways to stand up to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his radical, anti-worker politics. With Election Day less than a week away "It's going to take a collective effort from all our brothers and sisters to show Gov.... more...
May 30, 2012 Former NLRB Member Becker To Take Top AFL-CIO Post; Controversial Flynn Resigns Craig Becker (r) , a former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member who drew so much GOP ire that a Republican filibuster kept him from a permanent board seat, will become Co-General Counsel of the AFL-CIO on July 1. He’ll join incumbent Lynn Rhinehart atop the federation’s legal... more...
May 29, 2012 Burned Up about Torched Personnel Records DC firefighters and police are burning mad about personnel records found in burning dumpsters last week. Firefighters responding to a fire in two dumpsters last Friday afternoon at the D.C. Fire Training Academy discovered some of their own personnel documents, as well as documents of... more...
May 29, 2012 Labor FilmFest Offers Discount for Program Ads Since 2001 the DC Labor FilmFest has screened over 150 films about work and workers – documentaries, dramas and even comedies (like Made In Dagenham , at left ) – bringing directors, stars, workers and activists together in this annual cinematic celebration of the struggle... more...
May 29, 2012 Labor Quiz: Motto Which of the following mottos has been variously attributed to Samuel Gompers, The Bible, Thomas Carlyle and Frederick Engels? “The people, united, will never be defeated”; "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work"; “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” Click here to submit... more...
May 25, 2012 Texas IAM/Lockheed Martin Strike Comes Home to Maryland "We're here to show Lockheed Martin that we know where they live," said IAM Local 776 Business Rep Joe Alviar as hundreds of Machinists and their supporters chanted... more...
May 25, 2012 Labor on the Move: Walt Cole Rides Off Into The West One of the most familiar faces at the AFL-CIO is retiring today... more...
May 25, 2012 Last Chance for DC-YTU Scholarship Today's the last day for young women -- or the "young at heart" -- to apply for a scholarship from the DC-YTU... more...
May 24, 2012 MD COPE Report: New Law Protects Union Members Maryland became just the second state in the country to legally protect union members' information... more...
May 24, 2012 Doubling the Fun at Labor Night at the Nats There will be a rain-date game at 4:05pm on Friday, August 3, the same day as Labor Night at the Nats... more...
May 23, 2012 Petition Urges Back Pay for City Workers An online petition urging the DC City Council to pay back city workers "for the needless furlough days that we were forced to accept under the false pretense of a budget shortage" has already gathered over 600 signatures... more...
May 23, 2012 Delegate Meeting Packed with People and Action A standing-room only crowd turned out Monday night to get the latest local labor news at the May Metro Washington Council Delegate's meeting more...
May 22, 2012 McNutt Blasts Walmart's "Culture of Lawlessness" Saying that "No one — and no corporation — is above the law," UFCW Local 400 President Tom McNutt called Walmart "a serial violator of wage and hour laws"... more...
May 22, 2012 Asbestos Workers Walk Out in MD Construction workers escalated demands for a safer workplace by walking off the job in Montgomery County, MD last week... more...
May 22, 2012 AFGE & Social Security Administration Reach Agreement After 27 months of negotiations, AFGE and the Social Security Administration have reached a new 4-year agreement... more...
May 21, 2012 New Contract, Bonus for MontCo Workers UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO -- representing 7,000 Montgomery County government workers -- won approval of the Montgomery County Council for a new agreement... more...
May 21, 2012 Pepco Shareholders Revolt With shareholder certificates in hand, members of the Our DC community group headed into the Pepco shareholder meeting... more...
May 21, 2012 CSA News You Can Use: Healthy Women's Healthy Community HealthyWomen, in collaboration with the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), has launched an online women's health community... more...
May 21, 2012 Labor Quiz: Non-union Drivers? Independent non-union drivers are known in the trucking industry as: scabs, pie-cards, or gypsies? more...
May 18, 2012 AFL-CIO Starts Wisconsin Recall Phone Bank This Monday the AFL-CIO will kick off phone banking to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker... more...
May 18, 2012 Labor Photo: Honoring 9/11 Union Members Labor's International Hall of Fame paid tribute to the more than 600 union members who died on September 11, 2001 in a ceremony at the AFL-CIO yesterday... more...
May 18, 2012 DC COPE Report: Hard Work Pays Off in Ward 5 Winning by a landslide, Kenyan McDuffie took nearly 45% of the vote in this Tuesday's Ward 5 Special Election... more...
May 18, 2012 Metro Council Delegate Meeting Monday Monday's Delegate Meeting will feature the AFL-CIO's new "Meet Mr. 1%" video... more...
May 17, 2012 Nigerian Women Labor Leaders Share Stories, Inspiration "It is only very recently that women are having a dissenting voice in the labor movement" said Sesi Agnes Fumilayo... more...
May 17, 2012 Labor's Hall of Fame to Honor 9/11 Union Members This evening the more than 600 union members who died on September 11, 2001 will be inducted into the Labor’s International Hall of Fame... more...
May 17, 2012 Labor Heats Up in June June is still a couple weeks away, but it's not too early to mark your calendar with some big labor events coming to the DC metro area... more...
May 16, 2012 County Supervisors Hold Up Metro Extension Over PLA "A perfect example of why government has become dysfunctional" more...
May 16, 2012 Labor Photo: Locals Stand with McDuffie in Ward 5 Special Election Local union members took to the streets in Ward 5 yesterday to stand with labor-endorsed City Council candidate Kenyan McDuffie... more...
May 16, 2012 IBEW 26 Steps Up Donations to Shoebox Project The United Way Shoebox Project -- to distribute shoeboxes filled with toiletries or emergency preparedness items to those most in need -- is underway... more...
May 15, 2012 Building Futures Opens with Inspiration Mary Battle -- not only the first woman Business Manager of Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 891, but the first female Business Manager in any trade in the metro Washington area... more...
May 15, 2012 Labor Photo: DC Labor Chorus Raises Voices and Funds The DC Labor Chorus hosted a festive Spring Concert this Saturday, featuring guests Kinobe and the African Sensations and the Echoes of Africa-Carpe Diem Community Chorus... more...
May 14, 2012 Coming Up this Week "Doomsday, No Way!" Rally, Ward 5 Special Election, and a Labor Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony... more...
May 14, 2012 Labor Quiz: What's a Nixie? Back when most mail moved by train, the Postal Service's railway mail clerks hand-sorted at least 600 pieces of mail per hour and often spoke in shorthand more...
May 14, 2012 Committing to Respect DC In light of Walmart's bribery and cover-up scandal in Mexico, the Respect DC Coalition plans to "keep up the fight"... more...
May 11, 2012 Workers at Jefferson Hotel Resist "Aggressive" Management, Vote to Join IUOE 99 Stationary engineers at the historic Jefferson Hotel in downtown DC voted unamimously on Wednesday to join IUOE Local 99... more...
May 11, 2012 WTU Pledges to Support Excessed Teachers As national Teacher Appreciation Week comes to a close, WTU President Nathan Saunders commended District teachers for their "continued excellence..." more...
May 11, 2012 NALC "Stamps Out Hunger" this Weekend NALC has collected more than 1.1 billion pounds of food for local food banks, pantries, and shelters across the country since 1992... more...
May 10, 2012 Maryland COPE Report: State Fed to Rally Against "Doomsday Budget" With the threat of up to 500 layoffs, slashes of $200 million from education, $22 million from health care, and $21 million from public safety... more...
May 10, 2012 UFCW 400 Members Show Off Successful Strategies at Kaiser UFCW Local 400 members Elisabeth Christakis and Angela Edwards are hard-working nurses at Kaiser -- and their work isn't going unnoticed... more...
May 9, 2012 Reader's Voice: Local Support for Walker Recall? "Can you tell me of any phone banking or other activities in metro DC for supporting Scott Walker's recall?" more...
May 9, 2012 IATSE 22 Retiree Blogging About Labor History & Walking "The Way" Longtime IATSE 22 member, officer, and former Head of Props at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater Larry Barrett is blogging about his walk along the fabled Camino de Santiago... more...
May 9, 2012 May Labor Calendar Available for Download The Eight-Hour Movement -- "Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will" -- illustrates this month's calendar... more...
May 8, 2012 Bakers OK Contract at Vie de France Union members at Vie de France in Alexandria okayed a "good settlement" last weekend... more...
May 8, 2012 Labor Walk Reveals Local History "I had no idea that labor history was made within blocks of where I work every day," writes DC Employment Justice Center Executive Director Barbra Kavanaugh... more...
May 8, 2012 Labor Video: How to Quit Workers demonstrate creative ways to quit, including with the help of a brass band! more...
May 7, 2012 DC Young Trade Unionists Scholarship Young women interested in being part of the next generation of union leadership have a new opportunity, thanks to a scholarship being offered this year by the DC Young Trade Unionists (DC YTU). The scholarship to the UALE Northeast Summer School for Union Women will help “educate a... more...
May 7, 2012 Live From Labor Notes: Reports & Links Union City reporter Julia Kann reported live from the Labor Notes conference in Chicago over the weekend via Twitter and the Council website. Here are excerpts and links to those reports:... more...
May 7, 2012 Your Best Shot The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild ( WBNG ) Local 32035 and the Labor Heritage Foundation are sponsoring the “Occupy Now!” photo contest to find the best shots of the Occupy movement. The contest will award three photographers -- a student, an amateur, and a professional -- with... more...
May 7, 2012 Strike Called Off After Civista Threats Nurses at Civista Medical Center called off their planned May 8-9 strike after the hospital threatened to replace workers who walked out. Civista RN Patti D’Ambrosio called the threat “intimidation,” and SEIU 1199 spokeswoman Maureen Higgins told The Maryland Independent that the... more...
May 5, 2012 Live From Labor Notes (1): Creative Mischief Solidarity was in the air in Chicago Friday as labor “troublemakers” from around the world arrived at the 2012 Labor Notes Conference. At a workshop on “Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief” I found myself in a small group discussing ways to build solidarity among young union... more...
May 5, 2012 Live from Labor Notes (2): Occupy Transit A sea of transit union workers – their neon orange shirts reading "Occupy Transit" and " We are the 99%" -- filled the front rows of the main auditorium at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago Saturday morning as ATU President Larry Hanley spoke. ATU 689 President and Metro Council... more...
May 5, 2012 Live from Labor Notes (3): The Next Generation of Labor Women One works to support day laborers. Another grew up walking picket lines with her mother. A third is a teacher at a school in Madison, WI. In all, they were ten young women -- students, organizers, teachers and activists -- who were able to attend the Labor Notes conference this weekend in... more...
May 4, 2012 Verizon Workers Send Defiant Message to Shareholders “We don’t feel like Verizon cares about its workers anymore,” said Ray Robidoux as early-morning traffic zoomed past yesterday morning. Robidoux and a handful of his fellow Verizon engineering assistants (at right) -- members of CWA 2108 -- were standing on the shoulder... more...
May 4, 2012 LIVE FROM CHICAGO: Union City Covers Labor Notes Conference The annual Labor Notes conferences are the biggest gatherings of grassroots union activists, worker center leaders, and all-around troublemakers out there—and this year Union City... more...
May 4, 2012 Local Verizon Contract Struggle Featured on New Labor Radio Talk Show The Union Edge, “Labor's Talk Radio” is coming to DC, starting this Sunday, May 6. The Pittsburgh-based show will air on WPWC 1480 AM in Washington Northern Virginia from 4 to 6p. This... more...
May 3, 2012 Civista Nurses to Strike Over Staffing Issues Nurses at Civista Hospital in La Plata, MD are planning a 1-day strike May 8-9 over staffing and wage issues... more...
May 3, 2012 Call Spreads for Resignation of Walmart Chairman, CEO A deli manager at a California Walmart has started an online petition calling for the resignations of Walmart Chairman S. Robson Walton and CEO Mike Duke... more...
May 3, 2012 Hotel Workers Cheer In New Contract The mood was festive yesterday as hotel workers, members of Unite Here Local 25, overwhelmingly (99.5 percent) ratified... more...
May 3, 2012 UnionPlus Free Car Rental Contest UnionPlus wants to put union members and retirees in the driver's seat... more...
May 2, 2012 DC City Council Fails to Repay DC Public Workers Yesterday afternoon the DC City Council failed to act to repay DC public workers unnecessarily furloughed in 2011... more...
May 2, 2012 Festive May Day in DC A giant dragon wove down 14th Street to the White House yesterday evening as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in celebration of May Day... more...
May 2, 2012 Coming Up This Week Verizon Shareholder Meeting Day of Action, DC JwJ Workers' Rights Board, and more... more...
May 1, 2012 Hotel Workers Win "Groundbreaking" Contracts After weeks of picketing hotels across the city and months of contract negotiations, area hotel workers have won "groundbreaking" contracts... more...
May 1, 2012 Labor On the Move: Andy Richards Moves to AFL-CIO's New Digital Strategies Dept Former Assistant Mobilizer Andy Richards, who most recently worked in the AFL-CIO's field communications program, has moved over to the AFL-CIO's new Digital Strategies Department... more...
May 1, 2012 Bill Moyers' 10 Docs on Social Justice Champions Noting that "Social activism has always been a popular subject for documentarians because it presents stories of both cause and characters," veteran journalist Bill Moyers... more...
May 1, 2012 Day Laborers form Worker Cooperative "You see a contractor managing a job one day and you think 'Why not me?'" said Carlos Diaz... more...
Apr 30, 2012 April Metro Council Meeting Highlights Threats to the Postal Service -- both neighborhood service and postal jobs -- were a big topic at the April meeting of the Metro Washington Council... more...
Apr 30, 2012 UC Photo Featured in AFL-CIO Pinterest Page A Union City photo is featured in the AFL-CIO's brand-new Pinterest page... more...
Apr 30, 2012 May Day 2012 Preview This year May Day -- International Workers' Day -- offers metro DC activists plenty of ways to celebrate... more...
Apr 30, 2012 Labor Quiz: What Taft-Hartley Didn't Do Which of the following did the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act NOT do... more...
Apr 27, 2012 DC Activists Call for Resignations of Top Walmart Leaders The widening Walmart bribery scandal hit the Pennsylvania Avenue Marriott Thursday morning when Respect DC activists burst into the hotel chanting "Hey Hey! Ho ho! Walmart greed has got to go!" more...
Apr 27, 2012 NoVA Volunteer Dinner Tix Deadline Approaching The cutoff for tickets for NoVA Labor's Annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner is fast approaching... more...
Apr 27, 2012 Ahold "Not Living Up to Promises," Martin's, Giant Food Workers Tell Shareholders in Amsterdam Three supermarket workers from Virginia visited Amsterdam last week to share their stories at annual meeting of the Dutch company that owns the stores where they work... more...
Apr 27, 2012 New Community Development Encourages Area Workers to Own in DC A new Northeast Washington housing development designed to create more affordable housing for DC's working people is drawing strong interest from District employees... more...
Apr 26, 2012 Activists Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law Blowing whistles, singing songs of solidarity, and waving signs that read "Do I look illegal to you?" and "People are more than their papers"... more...
Apr 26, 2012 Great Labor Arts Exchange Early Bird Rates Expiring Soon Early Bird discounted registration for this year's Great Labor Arts Exchange, Conference on Creative Organizing, and Camp Solidarity ends on May 2... more...
Apr 26, 2012 Workers Memorial Day Honors First Responders & Public Employees To help mark Workers Memorial Day, the National Labor College is hosting an afternoon of activities open to the public this Friday, April 27... more...
Apr 25, 2012 Republican Attack on Fair Union Election Rule Fails in Senate Congressional Republicans yesterday failed in their latest attempt to roll back workers' rights... more...
Apr 25, 2012 Local Unions Mobilize Against Postal "Destruction" Leaders of local postal unions are helping mobilize support to head off legislation in Congress they say would dismantle the U.S. Postal Service... more...
Jun 17, 2013 Protests Spread to 77 Cities in Turkey Over the past few weeks, Turkey has been rocked by unrest. The protests were sparked by peaceful resistance to the destruction of Istanbul’s Gezi Park in Taksim Square, the only green public place in central Istanbul, which was to be turned into a shopping mall and historical recreation of... more
Jun 17, 2013 Today in Labor History: June 17; Labor Quiz Today in Labor History: June 17 Susan B. Anthony goes on trial in Canandaigua, N.Y., for casting her ballot in a federal election the previous November, in violation of existing statutes barring women from the vote – 1873 —Click here for the complete posting. Labor Quiz: Union Busting... more
Jun 18, 2013 Turkey: Journalists Call for International Action to End Crackdown on Media in Turkey LabourStart headline - Source: IFJ more

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