Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO - Home

Time 2020-07-13 21:03:05

Web Name: Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO - Home

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Click here for latest listingsUnion City Radio: 7:15am dailyWPFW-FM 89.3 FM;click here to hear today's reportLabor Conversation with MD Congressman Jamie Raskin: Mon, July 13, 3pm 4pmVia Zoom; MD State and DC AFL-CIO;[email protected]A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci: Tue, July 14, 4pm 5pmViaFacebook TwitterCo-sponsored by The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor: "As workers continue to grapple with the increasing severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, protecting public health must be at the forefront of our collective fight for the common good."DC Labor FilmFest: We Are Not Ghosts Another World is Possible: Tue, July 14, 7pm 9pmVia Zoom; RSVP hereMetro Washington Council and Community Services Agency staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresseshere. Union City Summer Schedule:UC appears Monday, Wednesday and Friday in July/August, with special editions as necessary. Follow us onTwitterandFacebookfor latest local labor news updates.Check out theLabor Radio/Podcast Weekly podcast:Belabored; WorkWeek Radio; Valley Labor Report; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; We Do The Work. Plus, on We Do The Work, an interview and songs from singer George Mann Plus: Labor History in 2, and sneak previews of The Gig and Labor History Today. We ve been on the front line since this virus started but it seems like management is not along with us, said Saul Walker, who maintains dormitories at the University of Maryland College Park. A member of AFSCME Local 1072, Walkertold WJLAthat he believes the school has been focused on the safety of students and faculty, not workers. People are having to choose between a paycheck and their safety, said union organizer Celina Sagusingh. Local 1072 handed out 200 donated K-N95 masks to housekeepers and maintenance workers on UMD s campus last week to show that "when it comes to providing maximal PPE, the union is doing for the workers what management will not," interim local president Todd Holden told Union City. Metro Washington Council D.C. COPE will restart its monthly meetings after the hiatus due to COVID-19 this Thursday, July 16 at 2:30p EDT via Zoom.Click hereto RSVP. Any member of a union affiliate of the MWC is welcome to participate, learn about our political education efforts, and get involved, says MWC Political Director David Stephen. Thursday s agenda includes reviewing and finalizing the MWC s political calendar for endorsements in the November general election. Candidates in the District of Columbia will include two At-large DC City Council seats, Council seats in Wards 2, 4, 7 8, and State Board of Education Ward Members in Wards 2, 4, 7 8. Deliberately negotiating to impasse, unilaterally imposing conditions, and breaking strikes all of these actions destroy the function of collective bargaining Rhomberg is the author of "The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor." On this date in 1995, Detroit newspaper workers began their 19-month strike against the Gannett and Knight-Ridder newspaper chains. NEW! Share any story to your Facebook or Twitter page or via email! Just click on the story and then click on the appropriate social media icon at right!

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