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AFSCME MD: No deal with Hogan

RIP AFSCME Council 20's Andrew Washington

Election Results for December 2020 Board Election for 2nd Vice President

From Protest to Power: Save the Date

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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[link removed] Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO phone bank for Georgia Senate Runoff: Mon, January 4, 10am - 5pm

[link removed] Airport Union Caucus: Mon, January 4, 2pm - 3pm
Meeting of unions representing airport and airline workers.

Rally at Tysons Corner To Protest Union-Busting: Tue, January 5, 12pm - 1pm
1950 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA
Anti-union company K&S has busted the union (SEIU 32BJ) at this site; masks and social distancing. #JusticeForJanitors

Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, January 5, 5pm - 6pm
Meeting for union members and community allies in Loudoun County.
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[link removed] Shenandoah Valley Labor Caucus: Tue, January 5, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Union members and community allies joining together for worker rights in the Shenandoah Valley.

Missed last week's Your Rights At Work radio show? [link removed] Catch the podcast here; Chris and Ed say goodbye to 2020 with a dozen work-themed songs. This show is dedicated to Andrew Washington (AFSCME Council 20) and all the working men and women taken from us this year by the COVID pandemic. Rest in Power, brothers and sisters!

AFSCME MD: No deal with Hogan
On January 1, the same day Maryland announced the second highest COVID positivity rates, AFSCME Maryland also announced that they had failed to reach an agreement with Governor Hogan.
"We are unwilling to accept less when we deserve more," the union said. AFSCME Maryland president Patrick Moran accused Gov. Larry Hogan's administration of a pattern of discriminatory negotiation tactics. A majority of the union's members are women and people of color. AFSCME also accused the Republican governor of playing partisan politics, alleging that while Maryland police unions, including the the State Law Enforcement Officer's Labor Alliance, were recently granted a pay increase of more than 20% over three years, AFSCME members were offered just a 1-year, 1% raise "contingent on revenue."

RIP AFSCME Council 20's Andrew Washington
In a year when COVID has taken so many too soon, we must add another name to the list of the fallen: AFSCME Council 20 Executive Director Andrew Washington, who passed away December 26. When elected in 2014, Washington became the youngest executive director of AFSCME Council 20, which today represents 8,500 federal, private and public sector workers in the metro Washington area. Washington had a no-nonsense reputation when it came to representing and organizing members, unafraid to take on local leaders on issues of social and economic justice. He served on the national union's Judicial Panel and was a 2016 graduate of Harvard University's Trade Union Program.
Andrew Washington also served as first vice president of the Metro Washington Council and earlier this year filled in as Acting President, unhesitatingly taking on those additional responsibilities amidst a pandemic that was ravaging his own membership. "The hearts of the entire local labor movement go out to his family, friends, colleagues and members," said MWC president Dyana Forester.
"Andrew always brought a fresh perspective to any conversation about our union's future," said AFSCME President Lee Saunders. "Andrew was a tireless champion for the workers he represented and always had their best interests at heart, whether at the bargaining table or the public podium. Andrew's ideas, commitment and youthful energy are irreplaceable."
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Election Results for December 2020 Board Election for 2nd Vice President
With 57.70% of the vote (27,597.8 votes, an outright majority) Chuck Clay (IATSE 22) is the winner of December's vote for 2nd Vice President of the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO. Tom Clark (IBEW 26) received 32.10% (15,342 votes) and Michele Clarke (PGCEA) 10.30% (4,912.6 votes). Election turnout was 59%, with 125 ballots submitted out of 213 eligible voters. Vote-by-vote results are available for review, upon request, subject to the same conditions as previously this year. Congratulations to all three candidates for their efforts and best wishes to Brother Clay in his new position.
- MWC Election Committee; [link removed] posted 12/29

From Protest to Power: Save the Date
"We're done talking about what 2020 has taken from us," says Nakisha Lewis, Director of Civil, Human and Women's Rights at the AFL-CIO. "Let's talk about what we built together. Let's talk about what we'll fight for in 2021." Thousands of organizers and activists protested across the country, demanding to be heard as they said, "Black Lives Matter." Millions of people elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House, winning a labor-friendly administration and the first African American and Indian American woman as vice president. With that inspiration, the theme for the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference is From Protest to Power: When We Fight, We Win. "On Jan. 15 and 16, we will gather virtually to build on our victories and strategize about the continued fight for economic and racial justice with--and also within--the labor movement," says Lewis. The conference will be free of charge, and all sessions and trainings will be held online so that everyone can attend safely.

Today's labor quote: Mike Quill

"The judge can drop dead in his black robes, and we would not call off the strike. Personally, I don't care if I rot in jail!"

Legendary Transport Workers Union leader Mike Quill and other TWU leaders were jailed on this date in 1966 for violating anti-strike court injunction in 4-day-old New York City transit walkout involving 35,000 members. A settlement was reached Jan. 13.

Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Cutting along the Color Line; Quincy Mills, Professor of History at the University of Maryland in College Park on black barbers, the evolution of their trade, and its political meaning as a skilled form of labor.
Last week's show: [link removed] Cordwainers strike of 1805

Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression - 1933

8,000 NYC social workers strike, demand better conditions for welfare recipients - 1965

- David Prosten

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