What’s ahead for working people and the labor movement under President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress? Metro Washington Council Executive Director Carlos Jimenez moderates a discussion tomorrow night with political writer Harold Meyerson, Dyana Forester, lead political and community representative for UFCW Local 400, and Joanna Blotner, DC Paid Family and Medical Leave Program Campaign Manager at Jews United for Justice. "Here’s your chance to vent, to mourn, and to begin organizing," says Jimenez. "What's on your mind?" The free event starts at 6pm at the Takoma Busboys and Poets; complete details on this and the rest of the local labor calendar are on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar.
Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1903, the Women’s Trade Union League was founded in Boston. The League played an important role in supporting the massive strikes in the first two decades of the twentieth century that established the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and in campaigning for women's suffrage among men and women workers. In 1938, the National Federation of Telephone Workers—later to become the Communications Workers of America—was founded in New Orleans. And in 1979, the Federation of Professional Athletes was granted a charter by the AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote is by James Baldwin Writer and activist James Baldwin, who said "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have"
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