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Count the Votes Rally: Wed, November 4, 3pm – 5pm
McPherson Square, 15th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
Meet at McPherson Square, 14th and K NW in DC, and march to Black Lives Matter Plaza. Organized by the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, SEIU 32bj, Unite Here Local 25, Unite Here Local 23, and Jobs with Justice.
NoVA Labor Arts Caucus: Wed, November 4, 3pm – 4pm
Unions representing the performing and broadcast arts will assess the landscape post election day.
Contact Jess Speaker, [email protected] for the link.
LIVE election coverage on the Labor Radio Podcast Network: Wed, November 4, 5pm – Thu, November 5, 7pm
Watch on Facebook Live
Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, November 4, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Alexandria union members and community allies will assess the landscape post election day.
Contact [email protected] for the link.
Labor 2020: Stay tuned for local, state and national reports; be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook!
Metro Washington Council, Community Services Agency and Claimant Advocacy Program staff are teleworking; reach them at the contact numbers and email addresses here.
Sweet retirement for IATSE 22 couple
Everyone deserves to retire with dignity, and if you're like IATSE Local 22 retirees Charles "Buff" and Julia Vaughn, donuts! After both recently retired from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where Buff was head of props for the opera house and Julia was a stagehand, the couple are opening a Duck Donuts in Rehoboth Beach. ““They’re yummy, warm and delicious,” says Buff. Read more here
photo by Chris Flood, The Cape Gazette
GWCF awards CSA grant to aid hungry
The Greater Washington Community Foundation has awarded a grant to the Community Services Agency to help alleviate food insecurity in designated zip codes in Washington, DC. "Food insecurity, a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life, is a major problem for working families in the District of Columbia," said CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. According to the DC Food Policy Council, "...it is projected that the District’s food insecurity rate in 2020 will be at least 16%, with even higher rates among vulnerable populations, including the elderly, children, undocumented individuals, and unhoused individuals. "This grant will provide food assistance to approximately 365 laid off workers and their families," DuCote added. For more information email [email protected].
Today's Labor Quote: Will Rogers
“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
Populist humorist Will Rogers was born on this date in 1879 near Oologah, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma).
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today: Organizing through the Divide
Author and historian Peter Rachleff and longtime labor educator and organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. explore labor’s connections to Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue. PLus: A union-made Halloween.
Contributors: Race Capitol podcast; Labor History in 2.
Last week’s show: O Canada, organize!
Some 3,000 dairy farmers demonstrate in Neillsville, Wisc., ultimately leading to the freeing of jailed leaders of a milk strike over low prices set by large dairy plants. Tons of fresh milk were dumped on public roads, trains carrying milk were stopped, some cheese plants were bombed during the fight - 1933
After a struggle lasting more than two years, 6,000 Steelworkers members at Bridgestone/Firestone win a settlement in which strikers displaced by scabs got their original jobs back. The fight started when management demanded that the workers accept 12-hour shifts - 1996
- David Prosten
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