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Good Jobs for Good Airports campaign comes to DC today

Fund the NLRB

Tix going fast for CSA's Commanders-Giants game

MWC hiring receptionist

Union Voice/Readers Write: Mine worker typo

Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

 

Today's Labor Calendar

[link removed] Click here for the complete calendar and details. Got something to add or update? Email us at mailto:[email protected] [email protected].

Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM

2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.

National Latina Equal Pay Summit: Thu, December 8, 9:00am - 1:30pm
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Holmes Norton @ Capitol w/Airport Workers Demanding Good Jobs: Thu, December 8, 12pm - 1pm
U.S. Capitol Building Grounds, Senate Swamp, Washington, D.C. 20510 ([link removed] map)

Your Rights at Work radio show (WPFW 89.3FM): Thu, December 8, 1pm - 2pm

WPFW 89.3 FM or [link removed] listen online.
Today's guests: area Starbucks workers; local union members who got out the vote in Georgia for Sen. Warnock.

Emergency Happy Hour for Federal Workers: Thu, December 8, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Elephant & Castle, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA ([link removed] map)

COMING UP:
Rally for Starbucks Workers United in Arlington: Fri, December 9, 5pm - 6pm
Plaza outside the Arlington government center, 2200 Clarendon Boulevard, Arlington.

[link removed] DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs: Sun, December 11, 4pm - 7pm; Free, [link removed] RSVP here.
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, 9601 Cedar Ln, Bethesda, MD 20814

Good Jobs for Good Airports Act campaign comes to DC today

Workers who clean planes, handle baggage and assist wheelchair passengers will gather at the U.S. Capitol today (see Calendar, above) to demand their members of Congress take action to pass the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act. They'll be joined by Members of Congress, including DC Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, as well as SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry and other allies. The Capitol Hill action is part of a Day of Action that includes activities in more than 15 cities across the nation. "Airport workers like me and working people all across the economy are fed up," said Verna Montalvo, a cabin cleaner at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport organizing with SEIU. "It's time that jobs for those of us who keep airports safe, clean and functioning are good jobs you can actually thrive on."


Fund the NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is in a funding crisis. "We need a fully funded NLRB to investigate unfair labor practices and conduct union elections," says the AFL-CIO. [link removed] Click here and send a letter to your senators to demand funding for the NLRB. All over the country, workers are organizing to win union elections and fight illegal corporate union-busting. The NLRB is supposed to back workers up by enforcing labor law and worker protections, but it's severely underfunded and doesn't have enough staff to do its job. "Without the NLRB, we can't hold corporations accountable or build worker power through stronger unions," says the AFL-CIO. "It's that simple."


Tix going fast for CSA's Commanders-Giants game

Tickets are still available - but going fast -- for the December 18 Labor Day at the Commanders. The hometown team will take on the New York Giants and a portion of tickets sold benefits the MWC's Community Services Agency. [link removed] Click here for details and to order tickets; for 10 tickets or more, email [email protected]

MWC hiring receptionist

The Metro Washington Council has an immediate opening for a fulltime receptionist; [link removed] click here for job description. Send résumé and cover letter to mailto:[email protected] [email protected]

Union Voice/Readers Write: Mine worker typo

"Thanks for your great newsletter," writes UC reader Regina. "BTW - typo - the UMWA [link removed] 110-day national coal strike was in 1977, not 1997."

Labor Quote: American Federation of Labor

"A struggle is going on in all of the civilized world between oppressors and oppressed of all countries, between capitalist and laborer..."

From the founding document's preamble of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), founded on this date in 1886 by 25 unions in Columbus, Ohio; Cigarmaker's union leader Samuel Gompers was elected president.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] "Capital's Terrorists". Last week's show: [link removed] Pins & Needles' mass appeal.

114-day newspaper strike begins, New York City - 1962

President Bill Clinton signs The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - 1993

Nearly 230 jailed teachers -- about one-fourth of the 1,000-member Middletown Township, N.J. staff -- are ordered freed after they and their colleagues agree to end a nine-day strike and go into mediation with the local school board - 2001

David Prosten

 

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