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Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM 2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter. George Mason University Coalition for Worker Rights: Fri, December 2, 11am – 12pm Coalition of students, professors, alumni, campus staff and contract workers to support worker rights at GMU. Cambodia March for Justice: Fri, December 2, 12pm – 1pm Royal Embassy of Cambodia, 4530 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20011, USA (map) Labor Notes meet-up & happy hour: Sun, December 4, 5pm – 7pm Sonny's Pizza, 3120 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20010. 10 minute walk from the Columbia Heights metro stop. (map) COMING UP Monday, December 5: DC Jobs with Justice “I'll Be There” Awards This year’s awardees include ATU 689, The Museum, Luz Chavez, Migrant Mutual Aid, and National Domestic Workers Alliance – DC. CLICK HERE for tickets/details.  Workers at Potomac Holistics Medical Dispensary in Rockville, Md. Yesterday announced plans to unionize with UFCW Local 400. “Every single eligible worker at the store signed union authorization cards in support of the effort,” reports Local 400. The group filed for a union election through the National Labor Relations Board Thursday morning in the event that management fails to voluntarily recognize the union. The staff at Potomac Holistics are joined by other cannabis dispensaries in the region that have recently unionized. In August, workers at Zen Leaf in Germantown, Md. unionized with UFCW Local 400 and are currently negotiating their first collective bargaining agreement. In 2020, workers at MaryMed, LLC in Hurlock, Md., became the first workplace in the state’s cannabis industry to reach an agreement on a union contract. That same year, workers at DC Holistic Wellness became the first dispensary in the nation’s capital to unionize. Read more here.
 Electrical Workers (IBEW) International President Lonnie Stephenson (at left) is retiring, effective Jan. 4, bringing an end to a nearly five-decade active career in the union. During his tenure as international president, Stephenson helped the IBEW’s organizing efforts reach new heights as membership grew yearly. He deepened the IBEW’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity, stewarding the IBEW Strong program to bring more people of color and women into the union. “President Stephenson leaves behind a great legacy. We are a bigger, stronger and more diverse union than we were seven years ago,” said IBEW International Secretary-Treasurer Kenneth Cooper (right), the union’s incoming president. “I am committed to building on that legacy as we work to fulfill our fundamental mission: ‘to organize every worker in the electrical industry.’”
 As the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign gets underway, women trade unionists worldwide are building on their momentum to end sexual harassment and gender violence at the workplace. In the Republic of Georgia, for instance, Raisa Liparteliani, deputy chairperson of the Georgia Trade Union Confederation, says the union's work strengthening national anti-discrimination clauses and more clearly defining sexual harassment in the country’s labor code is moving the government to ratify Convention 190, the international treaty to end GBVH at work. Read more at Solidarity Center.
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