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Labor hits the doors for Burroughs in PG District 8 race

Report Breaks the Silence on Gender Violence in Nigeria

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Labor hits the doors for Burroughs in PG District 8 race

Metro Washington Labor Council president Dyana Forester (at left in photo) was among those hitting the doors for Prince George's County Council candidate Edward Burroughs III over the holidays. "Ed has been a long-time supporter of union labor and a fierce advocate for creating union labor jobs in the county," said Forester as she door-knocked on Christmas Eve. Labor's effort to elect Burroughs included knocking on doors in District 8 and phone banking, with various MWC affiliates sponsoring phone banks and canvasses. With thousands of union voters in the district, the Metro Labor Council is working hard to activate the membership to mail in their ballots and turn out to the polls on Tuesday, January 4th. [link removed] Click here to sign up to help get Edward Burroughs elected.

- Story/photo by Dejah Williams

Report Breaks the Silence on Gender Violence in Nigeria

A new report by the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and the Solidarity Center, "Breaking the Silence: Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria's World of Work," finds that gender-based violence and harassment (GVBH) at work is widespread in Nigeria, but goes largely unreported. It is important that we stop the stigmatization of sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence at work, says Regina Otorkpa, an NLC gender activist. "The struggle against GBVH is a collective one for the good of all." Find out more and download the report at [link removed] Solidarity Center.


Today's labor quote: Bishop Desmond Tutu

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

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January 3
The ship Thetis arrives in Hawaii with 175 Chinese field workers bound to serve for five years at $3 per month - 1852

In a familiar scene during the Great Depression, some 500 farmers, black and white, their crops ruined by a long drought, march into downtown England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families, warning they would take it by force if necessary. Town fathers frantically contacted the Red Cross; each family went home with two weeks' rations - 1931

The Supreme Court rules against the closed shop, a labor-management agreement that only union members can be hired and must remain members to continue on the job - 1949

January 4

Angered by increasing farm foreclosures, members of Iowa's Farmers Holiday Association threaten to lynch banking representatives and law officials who institute foreclosure proceedings for the duration of the Great Depression - 1933

8,000 NYC social workers strike, demand better conditions for welfare recipients - 1965

Legendary Transport Workers Union leader Mike Quill, other TWU leaders are jailed for violating anti-strike court injunction in 4-day-old New York City transit walkout involving 35,000 members. A settlement was reached Jan. 13 - 1966

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