Workers in the Prince George’s County school system will be getting significant raises in January that they wouldn’t have received if they hadn’t stood together in solidarity. More than 2,400 members of ACE-AFSCME Local 2250 recently ratified an economic agreement that will result in higher pay for the 6,000 employees covered by that local. “As a newcomer into a union, it was great to see democracy in action,” said Latasha Bacote, a program liaison for three years for the county’s Before and After School Extended Learning Program. “It was great to see the spirit of solidarity and moving forward.”
For the latest events on the local labor calendar, go to dclabor.org, and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1955, ending a 20-year split, the two largest labor federations in the U.S. merged to form the AFL-CIO. Currently, the federation’s fifty-five national and international unions represent more than 12 million active and retired workers. Today’s labor quote is by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, who on this date in 1999 welcomed the collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, declaring that "No deal is better than a bad deal." Union Plus helps make Union City Radio possible. Holiday travel planning? Union members get special savings on travel and entertainment at unionplus.org.
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