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Accountability And Safety For All: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Workers in the Informal Economy: Thu, December 2, 9:00am – 10:30am
Registration is required to attend. Register Here!

Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, December 2, 1pm – 2pm

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Guests: David Story (“I’m a Defense Industry Worker. It’s Time to Cut the Pentagon Budget”); James Schiffman on the ongoing battle for workplace safety in public universities.

Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society: Thu, December 2, 4pm – 6pm

Jack Metzgar on his new book, Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society. Register Now

Arlington Dems Labor Caucus: Thu, December 2, 6pm – 7pm

Meeting of Arlington union members and friends of labor. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89012860678

Women Who Organize: Building Power with Workers: Thu, December 2, 7pm – 9pm

WILL Empower Young Womxn's Labor Leadership Group invites you to a virtual conversation. REGISTER.

AFGE urges Congress to avert government shutdown
Calling it “a lump of coal in the stocking of every hardworking American honorably serving their country and every citizen who counts on critical government services,” AFGE president Everett Kelley yesterday warned that “A government shutdown just before the holidays would be a Christmas gift to America’s global adversaries, who are anxious to exploit every failure of our democratic system of government.” With Congress approaching a Dec. 3 funding deadline and the potential of a fourth government shutdown since 2018, Kelley said that “Our members have a simple message for Congress: Stop playing chicken with people’s lives and do your jobs.”

Labor On The Move: Harrison new PM at CSA’s Building Futures program
James M. Harrison II is the new Program Manager for the Building Futures Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program at the Metro Washington Council’s Community Services Agency. He previously worked at North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services in the Communicable Disease/Epidemiology branch and was also a trainer for the state’s Regional Bridge Counselor Program. Harrison has an undergraduate degree in Family and Community Services along with a Graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and says that CSA’s BF program, which works to increase local residents’ access to the building and construction trades, “offers accessibility to opportunities that can create multiple paths to success.”

Today’s labor quote: Raymond Jackson

“Blue-collar workers in this country have had enough. We just want fair wages and fair benefits. That’s all we’re asking for.”

ATU 689 president Raymond Jackson in the Washington Post last Friday.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: This week's show: Long live Mother Jones! Last week's show: Murder, Race and (In)Justice.

Court documents filed in Boston say Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to 87,500 Massachusetts employees who claimed the retailer denied them rest and meal breaks, manipulated time cards and refused to pay overtime - 2009

- David Prosten.

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