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Welcome Back Congress March and Rally
Tue, September 21, 12:00pm – 3:30pm
Start Time/Location: 12:00 pm at Benjamin Banneker Park (429 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20024, closest metro stop is L’Enfant Plaza)
● End Time/Location: 3:30 pm at Grant Memorial/Capitol Reflecting Pool (West Side of the US Capitol Building)

DC COPE meeting
Tue, September 21, 2pm – 3pm
Please register in advance for this meeting; after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Our agenda items will include redistricting, ranked choice voting, the upcoming 2022 elections, and an overview of the budget. We look forward to seeing you there.

Loudoun County Labor Caucus
Tue, September 21, 5pm – 6pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun County.

NoVA Volunteer Phone Bank
Tue, September 21, 6pm – 8pm
We will be calling fellow union members about this important election! Please click the below link to register:
Post cards and lit are available for pick up at the NoVA Labor office. For more info contact Bob Zabel. [email protected]. 317-489-2501

Wednesdays with Warner (2 locations!)
Wed, September 22, 8:15am – 9:15am
Will this be the week that Senator Warner finally decides to stand with workers and co-sign the PRO Act? Join the Coalition to Repeal Right to Work for Week 27 at Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria at 8:15 am or join the Painters Union outside the Senator's district office at 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Vienna at 8:30 am.
Contact [email protected] and [email protected] for more info.

Check out the best of labor radio and podcasts on the latest Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: Stick Together; Red Dead Redemption; Activate Live; The Solidarity Center Podcast; Belabored; Working Class History; Grit NW

ALEC’s sneak attack on MontCo union rights

Montgomery County police officers could lose their collective bargaining rights if Bill 34-20 passes, warns UFCW 1994/MCGEO. The bill, which Local 1994 says is “right out of Scott Walker's and ALEC's playbook,” also threatens other public sector bargaining rights, the union warns. “How long before they take away the rights of our public health nurses, our bus drivers, or our parks workers?” Bill 34-20 is sponsored by Councilmembers Hans Reimer and Craig Rice.
Local 1994 is urging concerned MontCo residents to call the public safety committee's members and tell them to vote no on Bill 34-20: Councilmember Katz at 240-777-7906; Councilmember Albornoz at 240-777-7959 and Councilmember Hucker at 240-777-7960.

VA barber strike escalates
The strike by Fort Lee and Fort Pickett military barbers has now escalated to an unfair labor practice (ULP) strike.

The barbers’ union representative, LIUNA Public Service Employees Local 572 says there are three ways you can help:

Send a letter today: show your support by contacting Sheffield Barbers LLC owners and AAFES. Tell them to get the union barbers back to work.

Donate: send a donation to local's strike fund to support the union barbers on strike.

Educate: visit LIUNA Local 572's website and follow them on Facebook [@PSELU572] to learn more and share updates with friends and family!

You can also watch and share the LIUNA 572 Barber Strike video here and read more about the strike here.

Today's Labor Quote: Mother Jones

“In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?”

Mother Jones led a march of miners' children through the streets of Charleston, West Virginia on this date in 1913.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Rich Trumka on “Art is why they remember our struggles.” Last week's show: Live from The Battle of Blair Mountain!

Militia sent to Leadville, Colo., to break miners strike - 1896

National Football League Players Assn. members begin what is to become a 57-day strike, their first regular-season walkout ever - 1982

- David Prosten.

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