The Capitol’s Shadow Army A Washington Post reporter, photographer and video journalist spend a night with Congress’s rarely glimpsed graveyard shift. Labor rides a building backlash Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank on why "I am proud to be a card-carrying member of [Newspaper Guild] Local 32035 of the Communications Workers of America." This Week's Quiz: The 1909 New York labor strike known as the “Uprising of the 20,000” involved what type of workforce? Miners; longshoremen; garment workers; teamsters; ironworkers. Click here and you could be next week's winner of a labor-themed prize! Previous Quiz: As of 2014, 24.6% percent of the employees in the state of New York were union members. Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Congrats to Hugo Lopez of OPEIU Local 2, Kensington, MD, this week's quiz winner! This year’s DC LaborFest continues today with a free noontime screening of The Hand That Feeds at the AFL-CIO (bring your lunch!) and then tonight Two Days, One Night begins a 1-week run at the Old Greenbelt Theater. Full details here. |