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Trump order "Opens door to political cronyism"

How to extend UI

Labor 2020 Update: GOTV & TriCounty COPE

Labor organizing to defend 2020 election

Today's Labor Quote

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FILM: ATLANTICS (UK online screening): Tue, October 27, 1pm - 3pm
FREE via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here (see below for description)

Labor 2020: Phone banking with UNITE HERE Local 25 for Ed Lazere: Tue, October 27, 5pm - 8pm
contact David Stephen at mailto:[email protected] [email protected] to participate.

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Special Meeting: Tue, October 27, 5pm - 7pm
The Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus will hold a special meeting this week with representatives of Virginia Tech to talk about how the new Innovation Campus can provide benefits to working class residents of Alexandria, during construction and after.
For the zoom link, contact mailto:[email protected] [email protected]

Loudoun County School Board Meeting (Loudoun County Labor Caucus): Tue, October 27, 5pm - 7pm
The Loudoun County Labor Caucus will not meet this Tuesday, but instead we are encouraging people to attend the School Board meeting in person to ask the Board allow people to comment virtually during their meetings. [link removed] RSVP here to sign up to speak.

NoVA Virtual Phone Bank for Abigail Spanberger (U.S. Rep, VA 7): Tue, October 27, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Rep. Spanberger will speak at the event! [link removed] Click here to register.

MD/DC AFL-CIO Labor 2020 phonebank (NC): Tue, October 27, 6pm - 9pm
[link removed] Sign up here

FILM: ATLANTICS: Tue, October 27, 7pm - 9pm
FREE via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here
After a group of unpaid construction workers disappears at sea one night in search of a better life abroad, the women they have left behind in Dakar are overwhelmed with a mysterious fever...

MWC Tri-County COPE meeting: Tue, October 27, 7pm - 9pm
Meeting via Zoom to discuss the political landscape of St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties in Maryland. All MWC delegates and union members are welcome to participate. [link removed] Register here

Progressive Maryland election text bank: Tue, October 27, 6pm - 8pm
David Stephen; [email protected]

Metro Washington Council, Community Services Agency and Claimant Advocacy Program staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses [link removed] here.

[link removed] Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: WorkWeek; Working People; Stronger Together
Election 2020 Special: Rochester Labor Council president Dan Maloney on their recent resolution calling for a general strike if president Trump ignores the results of the upcoming elections. Professor Veena Dubal explains why everyone who's a worker or who cares about workers should be paying close attention to Proposition 22 in California. A visit with Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Deb Patterson, a homecare worker running in Oregon's state Senate District 10.

Trump order "Opens door to political cronyism"
Calling it "the most profound undermining of the civil service in our lifetimes," AFGE National President Everett Kelley slammed president Trump's executive order last week that the union said would undermine decades of laws and policies designed to protect career civil servants from being hired or fired for political reasons. "Congress created these rules to guard against arbitrary hiring and firing decisions that are based not on job performance but on political affiliation, personal loyalty tests, and outright discrimination. President Trump's executive order throws those rules out the window for an enormous portion of the federal workforce," Kelley said. The order applies to current and new positions and gives agency heads seven months to conduct a complete review of their workforces that will be used to determine which jobs will be converted to the new schedule. [link removed] Read more here.

How to extend UI
A new flyer on [link removed] "How to Extend Unemployment Insurance Beyond 26 Weeks" has just been posted on the MWC's Claimant Advocacy Program's page.

Labor 2020 Update: GOTV & TriCounty COPE
With just one week until the last day to vote - Tuesday, November 3 - there's still plenty of work to be done to get out the vote for labor's candidates. Here's the Metropolitan Washington Council's guide to getting involved this week ([link removed] see Calendar for complete details):
Tuesday, October 27
* 5p: Phone banking with UNITE HERE Local 25 for Ed Lazere (DC City Council At-Large)
* 6p: Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Member-to-Member Phone Banks to Swing States
* 6p: Progressive Maryland text bank
* 7p: Tri-County COPE meeting via Zoom to discuss the political landscape of St. Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties in Maryland. All MWC delegates and union members are welcome to participate. [link removed] Register in advance for this meeting.
Wednesday, October 28
* 6p: Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Member-to-Member Phone Banks to Swing States
* 6:30p: Phone bank Against Montgomery County, MD Ballot Question B at 6:30 pm
Thursday, October 29
* 6p: Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO Member-to-Member Phone Banks to Swing States
For more info or to volunteer, contact Legislative and Political Director David Stephen at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]

Labor organizing to defend 2020 election
A grassroots network of labor organizations and activists committed to protecting the upcoming election has been growing quickly in recent weeks. More than 60 labor organizations--local unions, state federations and Central Labor Councils, national unions, and other workplace-based groups - held an online planning meeting last week and resolutions to mobilize post-election have been passed all over the country (including by the MWC in September) "and plans are being made to bring our members out into the street to stop Trump from stealing the election," say organizers of Labor Action To Defend Democracy. "We are building mobilizing power from the bottom up, with a focus on the possibility that we will need to build up to work stoppages in key places. Labor can make the difference in the post-election fight to protect democracy." The next meeting of LADD is this Thursday at 8p; email Gene Bruskin at mailto:[email protected] [email protected] for details.

Today's Labor Quote: Booker T. Washington

"Shall the labor unions use their influence to deprive the black man of his opportunity to labor... [or] unite with those who want to give every man, regardless of color, race or creed, what Colonel Roosevelt calls the `square deal' in the matters of labor?"

Writing in [link removed] The Atlantic magazine in June, 1913

Today's Labor History
This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: O Canada, organize!
How a little newspaper started labour journalism in Canada. The 1931 Fraser Mills Strike. And "Through Rain, Sleet, Snow and Terrorism."
Contributors: [link removed] Radio Labour; [link removed] On the Line: Stories of BC Workers; [link removed] Labor History in 2
Last week's show: [link removed] One Day More

The New York City subway, the first rapid-transit system in America, opens. More than 100 workers died during the construction of the first 13 miles of tunnels and track - 1904

The National Negro Labor Council is formed in Cincinnati to unite black workers in the struggle for full economic, political and social equality. The group was to function for five years before disbanding, having forced many AFL and CIO unions to adopt non-discrimination policies - 1951

- David Prosten

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