Forward to a friend:
[link removed]

Workers unionize at both College Park MOM's Organic Market and La Colombe Coffee Roasters

Evening with Labor nominations open

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.

Sonia Vasquez Luna (NoVA VP) Swearing In: Tuesday, January 3, 5:15 - 6:15pm
New Manassas City Council member Vasquez Luna is 2nd Vice President of NoVA Labor.
Jennie Dean Elementary School Auditorium, 9601 Prince William Street, Manassas.

Workers unionize at both College Park MOM's Organic Market and La Colombe Coffee Roasters
In double victories on December 23, workers at both MOM's Organic Market in College Park, Md. and the La Colombe Coffee Roasters Chinatown location in Washington, DC voted to unionize with UFCW Local 400.

The College Park store is the third MOM's Organic Market to unionize. In August, workers at a Baltimore store in Hampden [link removed] voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing with the Teamsters, and in October, workers at the MOM's Organic Market in Timonium [link removed] voted to unionize as well. The Chinatown La Colombe is the first La Colombe cafe in the country to successfully unionize.


Local 400 noted that "union organizing efforts are sweeping through the DMV region, where in the last few months workers at [link removed] Books-A-Million, [link removed] Union Kitchen, [link removed] Politics and Prose, and [link removed] Zen Leaf dispensary have all unionized, announced plans to unionize, or ratified their first union contracts." The wave of unionizing workplaces is not limited to the DMV region. According to the NLRB, [link removed] union elections filings in the first half of fiscal year 2022 are up 57% from the year before and [link removed] approval of labor unions is at its highest point since 1965 according to a recent Gallup poll.

[link removed] Posted 12/23 at dclabor.org

Evening with Labor nominations open (reminder)


Nominations are now open for 2022 Evening with Labor awards; [link removed] please click here for the nomination form, which includes details on all awards (including JC Turner Award For Outstanding Trade Unionist of the Year; COPE Award; Thomas M. Bradley Community Services Award; Organizing Award; Golden Picket Sign; Outstanding Ally; Joslyn N. Williams Vanguard Award).


Labor Quote: La Colombe workers

"Our union has existed through the solidarity, friendship, and camaraderie we have shared with each other at work for many months."

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] "No Labor Dictators for Us". Last week's show: [link removed] A Working-Class Christmas Story Christmas.

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

More than 400 Google engineers and other workers form a union at the tech giant. Their Alphabet Workers Union, named after parent company, is an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America. Acknowledging that the company has more than 260,000 full time employees and contractors, union supporters said the move was primarily an effort to give structure and longevity to organizing efforts. 2021

David Prosten

 

Material published in UNION CITY may be freely reproduced by any recipient; please credit Union City as the source.

Published by the Metropolitan Washington Council, an AFL-CIO "Union City" Central Labor Council whose 200 affiliated union locals represent 150,000 area union members.

Story suggestions, event announcements, campaign reports, Letters to the Editor and other material are welcome, subject to editing for clarity and space; just click on the mail icon below. You can also reach us on Facebook and Twitter by clicking on those icons.

[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
mailto:[email protected]
undefinedhttps://www3.thedatabank.com/dpg/_public/ct.asp?aacwc=37156366565807109211030192097&ct=wwwdclabororg&redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edclabor%2Eorg%2F

 

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that [link removed] [email protected] signed up to receive this newsletter. Click here to [link removed] edit your subscription preferences
To view our Privacy Policy: [link removed]