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Wednesdays with Warner: Wed, September 29, 8:15am – 9:15am

Join us for Week 28 of our weekly breakfast vigil at the picnic table at Windmill Hills Park, 500 South Lee St., Alexandria, to celebrate the fact that the Democratic Party of Virginia adopted a Resolution urging Senator Warner to sign on to the PRO Act.

DC LERA: Federal Reserve Talk with Tom Barkin: Wed, September 29, 9:30am – 10:30am

Join DC LERA for a conversation with Federal Reserve Board Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin. FREE; register here

WEBINAR: Hilton Hotels is Playing Dirty with its Housekeepers: Wed, September 29, 2pm – 3pm
CLICK TO REGISTER. Hosted by The Catholic Labor Network

NoVA Volunteer Phone Bank: Wed, September 29, 6pm – 8pm

For more info contact Bob Zabel. [email protected].317-489-2501

Fairfax County Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, September 29, 7pm – 8pm

Meeting of Fairfax County union members and friends of labor. Special guest Julie Hunter, Virginia AFL-CIO Political Director, will speak about the elections.

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, September 29, 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Meeting of Alexandria union members and friends of labor. Contact [email protected] for the link.

Honoring those lost to COVID-19
If your local has lost someone to COVID-19, you can honor their memory at the “In America: Remember” art exhibition now blanketing the National Mall. Visitors are invited to personalize flags for someone they have lost. Those who cannot visit in person can dedicate a flag on this website until Thursday, September 30th, and it will appear in physical form on the National Mall. With over 660,000 white flags, the exhibition shows “the magnitude of our loss as a nation, while honoring each person who has died from COVID-19.” You can visit this immense field of flags on the National Mall through this Sunday, October 3.

Brookings recognizes staff union

The Brookings Institution has voluntarily recognized their staff’s union, Brookings United, and their selection of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) Local 70, IFPTE to be their collective bargaining representative. “Our strength as contributors is rooted in our

shared mission of promoting workplace diversity and inclusion, ensuring Brookings is competitive among peer organizations, and expanding work opportunities for staff to better prepare the next generation of leaders,” said the Brookings United Organizing Committee in a statement. “This union is a much-needed step forward in achieving those goals.” Read more here.

Today’s Labor Quote: Alice Walker

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”

Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Feathers and Pennies - the 1888 Matchgirls and us. Last week's show: Rich Trumka on “Art is why they remember our struggles.”

A report by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the average weekly take home pay of a factory worker with three dependents is now $94.87 - 1962

Tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets of Europe, striking against government austerity measures. - 2010

- David Prosten.

Hiring Hall: DC-area union jobs, plus click here for more listings!

Administrative
Office Assistant III – Conference & Travel Services, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC [Headquarters] (Posted: 9/24/2021)
Confidential Secretary, UFCW, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 9/23/2021)

Legal
Spring 2022 Law Clerk, UFCW, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 9/23/2021)

Misc
Director of Facilities And Building Operations – Facility Management, AFL-CIO, based in Washington, DC [Headquarters] (Posted: 9/23/2021)
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist IV, Solidarity Center, based in Washington, DC (currently remote) (Posted: 9/22/2021)
Program Officer I for Europe and Central Asia, Solidarity Center, based in Washington, DC (currently remote) (Posted: 9/22/2021)

Organizing
Union Organizer-in-Training (OIT) – Higher Education Campaign, SEIU, based in Rockville, MD (Posted: 9/23/2021)

Research
Senior Research Analyst, ACRE (Action Center on Race and the Economy), location is flexible but Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area, or Washington, DC are preferred (Posted: 9/27/2021)
Director of Research, NELP (National Employment Law Project), based in Washington, DC; New York City, NY; or Berkeley, CA (Posted: 9/28/2021)

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