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Dyana Forester elected president of the Metro Washington Council
In the Metro Washington Council's first contested election in living memory, Dyana Forester (UFCW 400) narrowly defeated Eric Bunn (AFGE District 14) in Monday night's election for president of the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO, winning with 51.3% of the vote in a roll call vote conducted online via Zoom and ElectionBuddy. Mike Spiller (OPEIU 2) and Greg Bowen (ATU 689) won the open seats on the Executive Board, with 43.8% and 33.7% of the vote, respectively. "I want to thank everyone who turned out for this historic vote," Forester told Union City last night at 11pm, just after the marathon 5-hour election - which drew 208 delegates from 98 affiliated local unions -- wrapped up. "Having to conduct an election remotely during these challenging times is not easy, but the fact that so many rank-and-file union members turned out shows how vibrant our labor movement is." Forester credited Bunn with running a strong campaign and said that "I look forward to working with him to continue his excellent work as Treasurer for the Council." Forester pledged to work closely with all the Metro Council's affiliates, delegates and board members "to build an even stronger local labor movement as we fight to improve the lives of working families throughout the metro area. We have so much work to do; I'm humbled by the task ahead, but can't wait to get started!"
photo: Forester with former MWC president Jackie Jeter at a rally for a contract at Safeway earlier this year

Today's Labor Quote: Eugene V. Debs

"Socialism is a growing idea; an expanding philosophy. It is spreading over the entire face of the earth: it is as vain to resist it as it would be to arrest the sunrise on the morrow. It is coming, coming, coming all along the line. Can you not see it?"

Railroad union leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs on this date in 1918 spoke in Canton, Ohio on the relation between capitalism and war. Ten days later he was arrested under the Espionage Act, and eventually sentenced to 10 years in jail.

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This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: Painters join Black Lives Matter protests; the history of black police in America; Race and Rebellion
[link removed] Last week's show: Labor supports DC Black Lives Matter protests; "Debs In Canton" preview; Revisiting The Battle of Homestead; Voices of exiled Iranian workers.

Eight local unions organize the International Fur Workers Union of U.S. and Canada. The union later merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen - 1913

The National Industrial Recovery Act became law, but was later to be declared unconstitutional. It established the right to unionize, set maximum hours and minimum wages for every major industry, abolished sweatshops and child labor. The Wagner Act, in effect today, was approved two years later to legalize unionization - 1933

Inacom Corp., once the world's largest computer dealer, sends most of its 5,100 employees an e-mail instructing them to call a toll-free phone number; when they call, a recorded message announces they have been fired - 2000

- David Prosten

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