Members of OPEIU Local 2 at several of their shops have stepped up to help the Metro Washington Council's Community Services Agency with its Holiday Basket Project for working families in need.
Members and staff at the National Electrical Benefits Fund conducted their holiday food drive right before Thanksgiving, resulting in a carload stuffed with food and baby supplies. Members of Local 2 at AFGE are adopting two families, as they have done for a number of years, and so are staff at Union Plus. And, Local 2 members at Kaiser Permanente had a Gratitude Tree that resulted in a harvest of $600 dollars in food gift cards, checks and cash. Stay tuned for more “Labor Cares- Labor Shares” stories as the list of CSA Holiday Basket helpers increases! More details on how you can help are at dclabor.org, click on Community Services. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1170 BC, history’s first recorded strike took place. Egyptians working on public works projects for King Ramses the Third in the Valley of the Kings were protesting having gone 20 days without pay —which were portions of grain—and put down their tools. The strike so terrified the authorities they gave in and raised wages. Today’s labor quote is by "Big Bill" Haywood, the founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, who said: "A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike."
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