Welcome Sig Meilus, incoming Director of the Community Services Agency
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The Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO and the Community Services Agency extend a warm welcome to Sigute Meilus (she/her), the incoming Director of the Community Services Agency. Sigute is a community and worker organizer with deep roots in anti-poverty organizing and economic justice movements for public transportation, workers’ rights, and housing. She joins the Community Services Agency from Repairers of the Breach where she served as the Director of Organizing for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
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Previously, Sigute worked to raise wages and improve working conditions with tipped workers, organized during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to connect community members to rental assistance and eviction diversion resources, and spent many years working alongside public transit workers and riders to build community-labor coalitions to improve public transportation locally and across the country.
In her new role Sigute will lead the Community Services Agency's work bringing the DC region's labor movement to community service efforts. Welcome, Sig!
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Support union families this holiday season
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ART workers overwhelmingly ratify their tentative agreement
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Congratulations to Arlington Transit workers with ATU Local 689 who voted 98% in favor to ratify their tentative agreement! Workers will now have a strong union contract that drastically improves working conditions and includes competitive pay with other regional transit workers. Congratulations, ART workers!
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UNITE HERE Local 25 members in Northern Virginia ratify new contract
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After months of action on the shop floor and in the streets, members of UNITE HERE Local 25 in northern Virginia ratified a historic contract that includes a $7 raise over 4 years for non-tipped workers, stronger pension, and Juneteenth as a paid holiday! Congratulations, Local 25 members!
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Maryland honors apprentices and launches new initiative to encourage apprenticeships
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In honor of National Apprenticeship Week, Governor Wes Moore presented Maryland’s 2024 Apprenticeship Awards. The 2024 Award winners include Carla Varela, Finishing Trades Institute, and Ashley Taylor, Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 5 Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee. Read more »
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Live in Maryland? The U.S. Department of Labor might have back wages for you
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Upcoming Actions + Events
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What's Next for Labor? An Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee panel discussion
Wednesday, December 4 — 8:30 PM EST
On Zoom
Join Sara Nelson, International President of AFA-CWA; Cecelia Prado, Chairperson of A Lute Sigue; and Carl Rosen, President of United Electrical Workers for a panel discussion about how the resurgent labor movement can keep up our momentum even under a Trump administration. Register »
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Thank a postal worker this season
December is the busiest time of the year for letter and package processing. To celebrate the hardworking union members who make this part of the holidays possible, APWU invites you to take some time to thank postal workers this holiday season. Record a short message of thanks and support »
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Refer a family to CSA's Holiday Basket Program by December 6
Every year at holiday time, the Community Services Agency provides holiday baskets to families who could use a little extra support. This week we'll share Thanksgiving baskets with several families, thanks to the generosity of our Affiliate unions. Referrals for Christmas are open now until December 6. Contributions are open until December 13. Refer a family or contribute »
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Left: Last week, AFSCME Maryland members from Frostburg to the Eastern Shore gathered in College Park for the first-ever University System of Maryland Stewards Training under their new unified contract. Right: DC SAFE offered a big "thank you to the Post Office Women for Equal Rights (P.O.W.E.R), a committee of the American Postal Workers Union advocating for women’s rights, for their generous donation of hygiene supplies, school backpacks, and blankets to our shelter!"
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