The Metro Washington Council’s offices are now in the AFL-CIO headquarters building: 815 16th Street NW, 3rd Floor North, Washington, DC 20006. Phone, fax and social media remain the same: 202-974-8150; Fax: 202-974-8152; www.dclabor.org; Twitter: @dclabor; Facebook: Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO. Click here for individual staff contact info. Joaquin F. Otero of Arlington, VA passed away on November 9, 2016. Born in Havana, Cuba on April 3, 1934, Otero was a major player in the American labor movement, serving a Vice President of the Transportation-Communications Union and the first Hispanic elected Vice-President of the National AFL-CIO. Otero was a founder and later served as National President of the AFL-CIO's Labor Council for Latin American Advancement. He later served as Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Labor Affairs in the Clinton Administration. He was the recipient of the Cardinal Gibbons award for trade union leadership at the Metro Labor Council's annual Labor Day Mass in the late ‘80's. - adapted from The Washington Post A county judge in Punxsutawney, Pa., grants an injunction requested by the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co. forbidding strikers from speaking to strikebreakers, posting signs declaring a strike is in progress, or even singing hymns. Union leaders termed the injunction “drastic” - 1927
The National Football League Players Association ends a 57-day strike that shortened the season to nine games. The players wanted, but failed to win until many years later, a higher share of gross team revenues – 1982 Read more; compiled/edited by David Prosten at Union Communication Services. “Black and white workers did not fight each other because they hated each other, but they hated each other because they fought each other. They fought each other because they did not know each other. They did not know each other because they had no control or communication with each other because they were afraid of each other.” Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. |