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Washington labor leader Jackie Jeter retires

General Assembly overrides Hogan's veto of MOU grievance bill

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Washington labor leader Jackie Jeter retires
Longtime labor activist Jackie Jeter, president of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO, retired at the end of January after a lifelong career in the labor movement. In addition to her incredible leadership with the council, Jeter served as an elected official with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689 in Forestville, Maryland, for more than 25 years. She began as a shop steward for rail operations in 1994 and was elected assistant business agent, first vice president and financial secretary-treasurer before becoming president in 2007. With every new position, Jeter set a historical precedent as the first African American woman to hold those offices. Jeter also made history at the council when she became its first female president in 2016. Previously, she served on the council's executive board from 1996 to 2002. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) thanked Jeter for her service: "Throughout her career, Jackie never stopped protecting and championing the rights for working people. The labor movement has deeply benefited from her hard work and dedication, and we will miss her dearly."
- Adapted from a [link removed] report on the AFL-CIO Now blog. Photo by Bill Burke

General Assembly overrides Hogan's veto of MOU grievance bill
Today, the Maryland General Assembly last Thursday overrode Governor Hogan's veto of AFSCME's MOU grievance bill. "Thank you to the shop stewards, activists and members who fought to strengthen workers' rights by working on this bill," [link removed] said AFSCME Maryland. "This important legislation strengthens our contract and our ability to fight violations of the contract." AFSCME said the union "is continuing to organize and lobby in Annapolis to end the staffing crisis and strengthen workers' rights."

Today's Labor Quote: Ritchie Brooks

"You never say never. There's always hope."

Brooks, president of Teamsters Local 730, talking about the union's plan to fight the [link removed] closure of the Safeway distribution center.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Sisters, rebels and social justice in the Jim Crow South
On today's show, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall discusses her new book, Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of the South in an excerpt from the Working History podcast.
Also this week, Karen Nussbaum on Iris Rivera's historic refusal to serve coffee, Jessica Pauszek reads poetry by a striking British miner's wife and Tom Zaniello remembers Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.
Last week's show: [link removed] Voices from the Lansing Auto Town Gallery

February 3
The US Supreme Court rules the United Hatters Union violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by organizing a nationwide boycott of Danbury Hatters of Connecticut - 1908

U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Wages and Hours (later Fair Labor Standards) Act banning child labor and establishing the 40-hour work week - 1941

February 4

Big Bill Haywood born in Salt Lake City, Utah: Leader of Western Federation of Miners, Wobblies (IWW) founder - 1869

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man launched the 1955 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott and the birth of the civil rights movement, is born in Tuskegee, Ala. - 1913

Unemployment demonstrations take place in major U.S. cities - 1932

- David Prosten; photo: Mary Louise Smith, a plaintiff in the Browder vs. Gayle case that desegregated buses in Montgomery, stands beside the Rosa Parks statue after its unveiling event in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, the anniversary of Parks' arrest for not giving up her seat on a city bus. (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser)

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Published by the Metropolitan Washington Council, an AFL-CIO "Union City" Central Labor Council whose 200 affiliated union locals represent 150,000 area union members. JACKIE JETER, PRESIDENT.

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