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LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, January 12, 5pm – 6pm Building A More Perfect Union: Wed, January 13, 12:15pm – 1:45pm Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, January 13, 7:30pm – 8:30pm Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Labor Radio Podcast Network Livestream (featuring Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly and AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers); America's Work Force; The BCTGM Voices Project; Labor Vision; LRPN Spotlight; Labor History in 2:00 ‘I Did Not Feel Safe’: How the insurrection at the Capitol affected D.C. essential workers ![]() After pro-Trump insurrectionists fought their way into Congress and essentially shut the city down Wednesday, stories began emerging of restaurant workers, hotel, and hospital staff getting caught in the fracas. D.C.’s essential workers, it would seem, were once more put in danger. For the third time since the election, cohorts of Trump supporters, alt-right groups, and Proud Boys instigated violence in D.C., disrupting the lives of residents, before leaving the Capitol and surrounding area in disarray. One Washington Post reporter shared a firsthand account of Capitol food staff handing out boxed lunches of chicken and beef in the middle of the insurrection, while Congress members sheltered within the depths of the building. Meanwhile, essential staff on and near the Capitol grounds, many of them Black and Brown workers, were left to clean-up from the violence. By early Thursday morning, crews of National Park Service and Capitol employees were out collecting the discarded MAGA gear, beer cans, and other trash littered across the grounds of the National Mall.
- Adapted from a report by Colleen Grablick and Elliot C. Williams on DCist; photo WAMU/DCist / Daniella Cheslow ![]() IBEW 26 retirees’ medical equipment program helps families heal, stay connected Labor Photo: LIUNA trainees #TrainingTuesday: @LIUNA trainees are very interested in what they are learning in #landscaping training at the @TrainingLiuna @BaltFund ![]() Today’s labor quote: Jack London ![]() Today's Labor History Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson orders police to raid an open-air mass meeting of shipyard workers in an attempt to prevent a general strike. Workers were brutally beaten. The strike began the following month, with 60,000 workers walking out in solidarity with some 25,000 metal tradesmen - 1919 Pres. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board to mediate labor disputes during World War II. Despite the fact that 12 million of the nation’s workers were women -- to rise to 18 million by war’s end -- the panel consisted entirely of men - 1942
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