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Union City Radio: 7:15a; WPFW-FM 89.3
FILM: Helmet Heads [Cascos Indomables] (Costa Rica): Wed, September 18, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Mancha is an easygoing bike messenger with no big expectations in life...
35th Annual “Ernie Grecco” Golf Tournament: Thu, September 19, 8am – 4pm
Rocky Point Golf Course, 1935 Back River Neck Rd, Essex, MD 21221
Baltimore Symphony Musicians picket line: Thu, September 19, 8:30am – 10:00am
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1212 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 21201
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, September 19, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
FILM: The Chambermaid (2018) [La Camarista] (Mexico): Thu, September 19, 5:15pm – 7:00pm
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous workday of Eve (Gabriela Cartol), a chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film rich with detail.
Monthly NoVA Labor Meeting: Thu, September 19, 7pm – 9pm
NoVA Labor, 4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale VA
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Metro Council meeting highlights
It was a packed house for Monday night’s meeting of the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, as delegates gathered after the summer break. Highlights of the meeting included an appearance by ATU 689 member Derrick Mallard, a bus driver who’s running for election in Bowie City’s Council District 4, under a special program organized by the MD/DC AFL-CIO. “No one can tell our story better than we can ourselves,” Mallard said.
Other reports included:
AFGE: Donna Brockington urged turnout for the September 24 “Fed Up? Rise Up!” rally focusing on the issues facing federal workers.
OPEIU 2: Michael Spiller reported on the recent organizing and contract win for workers at Partner Global; Spiller also reported that Local 2 is starting negotiations on October 4 for workers at the Baltimore office of the ACLU, which hired a union-busting lawfirm.
UNITE HERE 23: Josh Armstead reported that Aramark workers at the Washington Convention Center just ratified a new contract. Local 23 is still battling with IL Creations and has a picket coming up 9/24.
- report/photo by Chris Garlock
DMV support for UAW strike
Len Shindel dropped off a pizza to UAW 239 members picketing GM's transmission plant -- 10301 Philadelphia Rd -- in White Marsh, MD on Monday. Fifty thousand auto workers walked out on strike Monday against General Motors. Their demands include fair wages, affordable health care, a share of profits, and job security. “Show the workers taking on GM and corporate greed some love and solidarity!” urges Shindel. Stay tuned for more details on local support for the strike.
Today’s Labor Quote: Terry Dittes
“We stood up for General Motors when they needed us most. Now we are standing together in unity and solidarity for our members, their families and the communities where we work and live."
Dittes is Vice President at the United Auto Workers
Today's Labor History
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. “You can't know where you are going if you don't understand where you came from.” AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka (right) sits down with Labor History Today’s Joe McCartin to discuss the historic Pittston strike, which began on September 17, 1989, when ninety-eight members of the United Mine Workers of America and a minister occupied the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Virginia. Plus Cool Things from the Meany Labor Archives: the AFL-CIO’s attempts to persuade union voters not to support George Wallace during the 1972 presidential campaign.
The Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) is formally founded at an Ohio convention. Two years earlier at an IBT convention in Las Vegas a union reform leader who (unsuccessfully) called for direct election of officers and a limit on officers’ salaries had been beaten - 1978
A 20-month illegal lockout of 2,900 Steelworkers members at Kaiser Aluminum plants in three states ends when an arbitrator orders a new contract. Kaiser was forced to fire scabs and fork over tens of millions of dollars in back pay to union members - 1999
- David Prosten
This week's featured job: Program Officer 1 – Europe and Central Asia Department, Solidarity Center
Administrative
Administrative position, IUPAT DC51 (9/16); Submit cover letter, résumé to: [email protected]
Project Accountant II – Finance, Solidarity Center (Posted: 9/17/2019)
Legal
Legal Secretary – Legal Department, SEIU (Posted: 9/13/2019)
Misc
Account Executive – Digital Fundraising & Advocacy, M and R (Posted: 9/13/2019)
Program Officer 1 – Europe and Central Asia Department, Solidarity Center (Posted: 9/17/2019)
Bids and Proposal Development Specialist – PQLC, Solidarity Center (Posted: 9/17/2019)
Staff Representative, AFSCME (Council 67) (Posted: 9/16/2019)
Executive Director, SEIU (Local 500) (Posted: 9/11/2019)
Organizing
Organizer-in-Training, UNITE HERE 25 (Posted: 9/10/2019)
Political
Field Legislative & Political Action Organizer – AFGE Political Mobilization Department (Posted: 9/11/2019)
Research
Washington DC Inequality Data Researcher, Institute for Policy Studies (9/16)
Policy Analyst, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 9/10/2019)
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