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Nine women grads who took a chance

AFSCME 67 represents at 2019 MACO

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Baltimore Symphony Musicians picket line: Tue, August 27, 8:30am - 10:00am
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1212 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 21201

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Nine women grads who took a chance
On August 19th, nine women along with their families and supporters gathered at the Plumbers Local 5 training center to celebrate the start of a new chapter in their lives. They had successfully completed an innovative program run by the Community Services Agency (CSA) in partnership with Plumbers Local 5 to bring more women into good-paying, union, skilled-trades jobs. "Thanks to Building Futures I have learned to bring the qualities I already have to school and take a chance for a life-changing experience in a new career," said newly-minted graduate Ruby Blackstone, who works as a lifeguard at Howard University, speaking on behalf of the other graduates. The nine women have obtained direct entry into the Plumbers Local 5's five-year registered apprenticeship program and will start work immediately in good union jobs. "Programs like this offer real hope as a way to begin rebuilding the labor movement and bringing in women who usually don't have access to the trades," said Keith Willis, Job Development Consultant for the CSA's Building Futures program and SEIU retiree. CSA's Building Futures Pre-Apprenticeship program offers hands-on experience in a union trade, an intro to the labor movement and additional wrap-around services to help women enter the union apprenticeship program and succeed. Other support services offered include mentoring and technical assistance to help build a community of local tradeswomen who can share experiences and support each other throughout their nontraditional careers.
For more information about the program email Sylvia Casaro Dietert, CSA Client Services Coordinator at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]
photo: Plumbers' pre-apprentice graduates, participating Plumbers Local 5 instructors, and Emma Brennan, Women in the Trades Project Manager

AFSCME 67 represents at 2019 MACO
[link removed] AFSCME Council 67 joined county elected officials, county employees, state officials and employees, congressmen, commercial and nonprofit representatives at the Maryland Association of Counties (MACO) [link removed] conference August 14-17 in Ocean City, MD. The focus was on changes being seen at every level of government and constituent services "and how counties are harnessing that momentum for the good of all Marylanders." Topics included transforming approaches to economic trends, climate change, land use, millennials in the workforce, and education, among others.
photo: Council 67 Executive Director Glenard Middleton Sr. and friends.

Today's Labor Quote: A. Philip Randolph

"At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization."

Randolph was the first organizer for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded on this date in 1925 at a meeting in New York City. photo: Pullman porter Harry Lucas

Today's Labor History

[link removed] Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week's show: Heidi Thomas on the history of rodeo women; Frances Perkins' labor landmarks; Common revisits MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech; labor and civil rights activists unite to desegregate Glen Echo Amusement Park.

After three-quarters of the states had ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, women win their long struggle for the vote - 1920
The Coalition of Labor Union is celebrating Women Women's Equality Day today;

[link removed] Sign the petition to elevate Women's Equality Day to a Federal Holiday and check out this [link removed] Equality Day brochure.

With America in the depths of the Great Depression, the Comptroller of the Currency announces a temporary halt on foreclosures of first mortgages - 1932

More than 1,300 bus drivers on Oahu, Hawaii, begin what is to become a five week strike - 2003

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