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Strike averted for 10,500 janitors

Sheet Metal Workers Local 100 mints 23 new journeyworkers

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UAW strike picket: Wed, October 16, 6am - 2pm; Thu, October 17, 6am - 2pm
GM White-Marsh transmission plant, 10301 Philadelphia Road, White Marsh, MD.

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, October 17, 1pm - 2pm
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Rally for a Fair Contract at Giant & Safeway (NW DC): Thu, October 17, 4pm - 6pm
Safeway #2808, 3830 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC 20011

Rally for a Fair Contract at Giant & Safeway (Alexandria, VA): Thu, October 17, 4pm - 6pm
Giant #2747, 6200 Little River Turnpike, Alexandria VA 22312
photo: 10/15 UAW picket in White Marsh; photo by Chris Garlock

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Strike averted for 10,500 janitors
Just hours before their contract expired at midnight last night, local janitors won a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract. The deal averted a strike by over ten thousand commercial office cleaners in the D.C. area. The janitors, members of 32BJ SEIU, waged an intensive campaign, holding 16 separate strike vote rallies over a two-week period throughout D.C., Montgomery County, Northern Virginia and Baltimore. As part of the large push, area politicians, including D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, rallied with janitors, who marched through downtown D.C. during rush hour two weeks in a row. Details will be released on Monday, October 20th, pending a ratification vote by union members.
photo: 10/11 SEIU32BJ demo; photo by Chris Garlock

Sheet Metal Workers Local 100 mints 23 new journeyworkers
At its annual graduation ceremony on Saturday, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, SMART International Association, graduated 23 apprentices from their 5-year apprenticeship school. The graduates, a diverse group which included a female graduate, received their journeyworker certificates as well as congratulations and encouragement from a representative of the International Training Institute, and the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Program of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. Four graduates received the Matthew Romeo Award for perfect attendance, "which is quite a feat for a grueling 5-year program like ours," said John Dumler, Local 100's Training Director. Among the 400 attendees were staff of the Community Services Agency, which partners with Local 100, providing instructors, space and entry into apprenticeship for CSA's Building Futures pre-apprenticeship graduates. "We salute Local 100 for its support and for its success graduating well-trained ready-to-work professionals for the construction industry," said CSA's Executive Director Sonte DuCote. "They do a great job!"
photo by Kathleen McKirchy

Today's Labor Quote: John Brown

"I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for."

Today's Labor History

[link removed] Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. Jody Allen, Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and Director of The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation. Jody discusses William and Mary's slaveholding past and the genesis, research, and ongoing community outreach of The Lemon Project with [link removed] Working History podcast host Beth English. Plus: SEIU 32BJ's Maria Naranjo on the origins of "chingchinas" -- soda can noisemakers --during the Justice for Janitors campaigns of the mid-Eighties.
Last week's show: (10/6/19): [link removed] Sex Workers Outreach Project makes history in Minneapolis

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is beheaded during the French Revolution. When alerted that the peasants were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, lore has it that she replied, "Let them eat cake." In fact she never said that, but workers were, justifiably, ready to believe anything bad about their cold-hearted Royalty - 1793

Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men, including five free blacks, in an attack on the Harper's Ferry ammunition depot, the beginning of guerilla warfare against slavery - 1859

- David Prosten

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This week's featured job: Executive Director - Center for Military Recruitment and Veterans' Employment

Communications
[link removed] Assistant Director - Digital Strategy, SEIU (Posted: 10/9/2019)
[link removed] Digital Ads Specialist, UFCW (Posted: 10/10/2019)

Legal
[link removed] Labor Relations Staff Attorney, NATCA (Posted: 10/8/2019)

Misc
[link removed] Executive Director - Center for Military Recruitment and Veterans' Employment (CMRAVE) Helmets to Hardhats® Program, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 10/10/2019)
[link removed] Project Organizer - Maryland Professional Employees Council, based in Baltimore, MD (Posted: 10/8/2019)

Research
[link removed] Temporary Research Assistant - AFT Research & Strategic Initiatives Department, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 10/10/2019)
[link removed] Policy Analyst, SEIU (Posted: 10/9/2019)

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