Five delegates from OPEIU Local 2’s Rising Stars “Step Up” Committee are on their way to Chicago today. They're joining over a thousand young union activists and community advocates from all over the country at the AFL-CIO Next Up Young Worker Summit this weekend. At the largest gathering of young worker advocates this country has ever seen, these future union and community leaders are coming together to build a common middle-class agenda, provide young activists the tools they need to build power and begin mapping out the strategy they’ll need to claim the future they deserve.
In today’s labor calendar, Hexagon is performing the musical comedy "The Spoof, The Whole Spoof, and Nothing but The Spoof!" in a benefit for the Employment Justice Center, tonight at 8pm at Wilson High School; Go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for details. Here's today's labor history: On this date in 1865, Michigan authorized the formation of workers’ cooperatives. Thirteen were formed in the state over a 25-year period. Labor reform organizations were advocating "cooperation" over "competitive" capitalism following the Civil War and several thousand cooperatives opened for business across the country during this era. Participants envisioned a world free from conflict where workers would receive the full value of their labor and freely exercise democratic citizenship in the political and economic realms. Today's labor quote is by Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”
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