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Prince George's County Board of Education Labor Forum: Wed, October 14, 11:00am – 12:15pm
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Virtual Phone bank for Cameron Webb: Wed, October 14, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Zoom; link here

MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (OH): Wed, October 14, 6pm – 9pm
Sign up here photo: at recent MD/DC phonebank

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, October 14, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Contact [email protected] for the zoom link.

Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: RadioLabour; We Do The Work; America’s Work Force; Laborlines
Labour calls for a new social contract; “Grand Theft Paycheck”; NFLPA’s JC Tretter on renegotiating collective bargaining agreements for player safety during the pandemic; an interview with NYC Restaurant Workers Council organizers.

CLUW releases catchy “Women Vote” video
We are fighters on fire
Justice will guide us
We are the champions
The world’s gonna hear us roar louder,
voting with power
Women vote vote vote!
That’s the catchy chorus of the brand-new video released yesterday by the Coalition of Labor Union Women. CLUW is urging people of all sexes to post the video -- which features the DC Labor Chorus -- on social media and share it with your members, friends and family. “Our goal is to empower women to be leaders in their community and in the political arena,” said CLUW. “This video is a representation of the journey, one that begins with women’s voices and Women’s Vote.”

Renne & Cuffie re-elected at UFCW 1994/MCGEO
Long-time President Gino Renne and Secretary-Treasurer Yvette Cuffie have been re-elected to the leadership of UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO. Lisa Blackwell-Brown was elected Local 1994's Recorder, a position long held by Nelvin Ransome.
photo: members of UFCW 1994 at work in Wheaton last month

Today’s Labor Quote: Manifesto of The International Working Peoples' Association

The International Working Peoples' Association was founded on this date in 1883 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their first demand was for the “Destruction of the existing class rule, by all means, i.e., by energetic, relentless, revolutionary, and international action.”

Read the Manifesto here

Today's Labor History

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Package King
Former Teamster activist Joe Allen on “A Rank-And-File History of UPS.” Folklorist Bucky Halker interviews iron workers Sharon Sisson and her husband Richard for the America Works podcast. And, on this week’s Labor History in 2: Born into Privilege, But…
Last week’s show: Roediger on "The Sinking Middle Class"; Feurer on Mother Jones' legacy

The Seafarers International Union (SIU) is founded as an AFL alternative to what was then the CIO’s National Maritime Union. SIU is an umbrella organization of 12 autonomous unions of mariners, fishermen and boatmen working on U.S.-flagged vessels - 1938

- David Prosten

Hiring Hall

Plus dozens more DC-area union jobs; click here!

Administrative
Office Assistant III, AFSCME Federal Government Affairs Department, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 10/9/2020)

Communications
Communications Program Manager, SEIU (Posted: 10/13/2020), based in Washington, DC (Posted: 10/13/2020)

Misc
Racial Justice Trainer / Consultant, AAUP (Posted: 10/7/2020)
Chief of Ops, People and Culture, Remote, UFR (United for Respect) (Posted: 10/7/2020)
Director of People Ops & Culture, Remote, UFR (United for Respect) (Posted: 10/7/2020)
Human Resources Manager, ATU (Posted: 10/13/2020)

Organizing
National Organizer, AFGE (Posted: 10/9/2020)
Field Organizing Specialist, based in Maryland (Posted: 10/8/2020)
Organizing Specialist – Organizing and Field Support, VEA (Virginia Education Association) (Posted: 10/13/2020)
Four Temporary Organizing Specialists – Organizing and Field Support, VEA (Virginia Education Association) (Posted: 10/13/2020)

Political
State Legislative Representative, UFCW (Posted: 10/7/2020)

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