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Transdev bus driver picket line (ATU 689): Daily, 4:00am – 5:00pm
Gates of the Cinder Bed Road Division, 7901 Cinder Bed Road, Lorton, Virginia
Union City Radio: 7:15a; WPFW-FM 89.3
Union City Radio: Your Rights at Work: Thu, December 12, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
DC COPE: Thu, December 12, 2pm – 4pm
IATSE Local 22, 1810 Hamlin Street, NE Washington, DC 20002
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Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Hotel picket: Thu, December 12, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, 700 Aliceanna St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Fire Drill Friday with Jane Fonda and Sally Fields: Fri, December 13, 11am – 1pm
U.S. Capitol lawn near the Capitol Visitors Center
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ATU 689 and Metro reach tentative 4-year labor deal on broad range of issues
In a major development, a tentative agreement on wages and benefits was reached yesterday between Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 and Metro that would "create incentives for better customer service, enable Metro to live within its legally-required three-percent subsidy growth cap, and create a path to bring in house work performed at Cinder Bed Road bus garage and on the Silver Line," Local 689 said in a press release. "The new agreement would provide four years of certainty to Metro employees and customers after the current contract expires on June 30, 2020," the union said. The terms must be ratified by union members and approved by Metro’s Board of Directors. Read more here
Paid parental leave for federal workers
A historic victory for millions of federal workers may be coming later this week. Congress reached a deal on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal employees to use to care for a new baby after birth, adoption or the initiation of foster care. Currently, federal employees are eligible to receive 12 weeks of unpaid leave. A vote on the NDAA is expected soon. Currently, federal employees are eligible to receive 12 weeks of unpaid leave. The United States is the only developed country that does not offer nationwide paid parental leave. In Germany, all new mothers receive 43 weeks; new Swedish moms get 35 weeks, and Norwegian mothers are entitled to 45 weeks of paid leave. Read more here.
- The Labor Wire, AFL-CIO
Internal organizing seminar Saturday at NoVA Labor
There’s still space available at the free internal organizing seminar this Saturday from 10 to 3 at NoVA Labor. The seminar will be taught by labor educators from Rutgers University and includes breakfast and lunch. More info: [email protected] or 703-627-5510.
"Party Like It's 1997" with USASSaturday’s "Party Like It's 1997” dance party “isn’t your typical labor movement fundraiser,” say organizers. “It’s is a cross-generational space to gather folks from across the labor movement to let loose and dance the night away to 90’s tunes, classic hits, and fresh beats.” The event benefits United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), which was founded in 1997; tickets are $10-$40. “I'll be at the party because through my work in USAS, issues of labor justice have become an incredibly important part of my life,” says Gabe Mielke, a senior in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. “As I look toward graduation and my life afterward, I want to stay connected to the struggles being waged by students and workers for justice throughout the world. The dance party is just one small way of my staying involved with the labor movement writ large."
Today’s Labor Quote: Gloria Steinem
“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
Today's Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Collective actions
Working-class heroes organize Pecket Well College in England; Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farms Cooperative (photo) in the Mississippi Delta. Plus this week’s labor history highlights!
Last week's show: (12/1): Making the Woman Worker
A small group of black farmers organize the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union in Houston County, Texas. They had been barred from membership in the all-white Southern Farmers’ Alliance. Through intensive organizing, along with merging with another black farmers group, the renamed Colored Alliance by 1891 claimed a membership of 1.2 million - 1886
Ten days after an Illinois State mine inspector approved coal dust removal techniques at New Orient mine in West Frankfort, the mine exploded, largely because of coal dust accumulations, killing 119 workers - 1951
- David Prosten
This week's featured job:
Legal
AFA-CWA staff attorney/staff negotiator, CWA
Misc
Federal Sector Staff Representative, AFSCME (District Council 20) (Posted: 12/5/2019)
Member Services Representative B – Level 4 (Local 26 IBEW-NECA Joint Trust Funds) (Posted: 12/9/2019)
Executive Director, CLUW (Coalition of Labor Union Women) (Posted: 12/4/2019)
Executive and Legislative Assistant, BlueGreen Alliance (12/11)
Civic Engagement Fellow, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (12/11)
Political
Director of Policy and Advocacy, Community Change (Posted: 12/6/2019)
Legislative Analyst / Counsel – Committee on Labor and Workforce Development, Council of the District of Columbia (Posted: 12/5/2019)
Research
Research Assistant – Revolving Door Project, CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research) (Posted: 12/9/2019)
ESG Research and Engagement Specialist, CtW Investment Group (Posted: 12/6/2019)
Campaigns Department Research Coordinator, UNITE HERE (12/11)
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