TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR; click here for latest listings
Transdev bus driver picket line (ATU 689): Wed, October 30, Thu, October 31, 3:30am – 5:00pm
Gates of the Cinder Bed Road Division, 7901 Cinder Bed Road, Lorton, Virginia
Union City Radio: 7:15a; WPFW-FM 89.3
Fairfax Connector Workers Informational Picket: Wed, October 30, 9:30am – 11:00am
West Ox Bus Garage, located at 4970 Alliance Drive, Fairfax, VA
NoVA Retiree Phone Bank: Wed, October 30, 12pm – 2pm
4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale, VA
Rally for UFCW 27 members: Thu, October 31, 11am – 12pm
Safeway, 1017 York Rd, Towson, MD 21204
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, October 31, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.
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DC Health Justice Coalition demands full-service, high-quality healthcare
Fully fund the United Medical Center, contract with a responsible operator and ensure a full slate of health services. Those were the demands of the DC Health Justice Coalition at a DC City Council hearing last Friday. The Coalition, comprised of labor unions and community organizations, gathered at the Council to demand full-service, high-quality healthcare for residents of Wards 7 and 8. Read more here.
- Yvonne Slosarski, 1199SEIU
State Fed convention hotel rate deadline extended
The deadline for the $135/night rate for the upcoming Maryland State and D.C. AFL-CIO 32nd Biennial Convention has been extended to this Friday, November 1. Call the Maryland Live! Casino & Hotel directly at (443) 842-7000, code AFL-CIO. The Convention runs Sunday, November 17 –Tuesday, November 19. If your Council/Local or Constituency group hasn't yet received credentials, call (410) 269-1940 or email [email protected].
Today’s Labor Quote: Sebastian Junger
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
Junger wrote the book “The Perfect Storm,” about the fishing boat Andrea Gail, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, which on this date in 1991 was caught in a ferocious storm and lost at sea with her crew of six. The city of Gloucester has lost more than 10,000 whalers and fishermen to the sea over its 350-year history.
Today's Labor History
Labor History Today (10/28): Cannabis organizing; 2007 Writers Guild Strike
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this show, originally posted November 4, 2018, Patrick Dixon talks with Clara Mejía Orta about workers in the cannabis industry in California, and Writers Guild of America West president David Goodman remembers the 2007 strike by 12,000 film and television screenwriters. Plus: Bill Fletcher on the 1892 general strike that brought 20,000 black and white workers together in New Orleans; David Fernandez-Barrial on the four million jobs created by the Civil Works Administration in 1933 for Depression-era unemployed; and Dan Duncan pays tribute to the workers lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975.
Last week's show: (10/20/19): Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
Ed Meese, attorney general in the Ronald Reagan administration, urges employers to begin spying on workers "in locker rooms, parking lots, shipping and mail room areas and even the nearby taverns" to try to catch them using drugs - 1986
- David Prosten
This week's featured job: Travel Agent – AFT Convention
Administrative
Administrative Specialist – AFL-CIO Meetings and Travel Department (Posted: 10/23/2019)
Office Manager (Fixed-Term), Working America (Posted: 10/25/2019)
Communications
Communications Specialist, BAC (International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers) (Posted: 10/17/2019)
Creative Content Designer, UFCW (Posted: 10/22/2019)
Misc
Travel Agent – AFT Convention, Meetings & Travel Department (Posted: 10/22/2019)
Pension Services Analyst, PPNPF (Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund) (Posted: 10/23/2019)
Staff Accountant II – Pension Accounting, PPNPF (Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund) (Posted: 10/23/2019)
Benefit Determination Group Assistant Supervisor, PPNPF (Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund) (Posted: 10/23/2019)
Delinquency Group Supervisor, PPNPF (Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund) (Posted: 10/23/2019)
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist – PQLC, Solidarity Center (Posted: 10/23/2019)
Senior Transportation Analyst/Engineer – UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) Clean Transportation Program (Posted: 10/18/2019)
UniServ Manager, VEA (Virginia Education Association) (Posted: 10/28/2019)
Organizing
National Organizer, Labor for Bernie (Posted: 10/21/2019)
Full-Time Community Organizer, Working America (Posted: 10/16/2019)
Director of Organizing and Field Support, VEA (Virginia Education Association) (Posted: 10/28/2019)
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