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Labor Photos: DC-area MLK-Labor

Loudoun County transit strike update

ICYMI: Moore nominates Wu as MD Labor Secretary; GOP tries to shut down congressional unions

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Labor Photos: DC-area MLK-Labor

Bottom left: MWC President Dyana Forester at the Saturday morning kick-off of the annual AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference (photo by Keith Mellnick); top left: Nearly 100 union members including 60+ ATU 689 members marched through Leesburg in the annual MLK parade on Monday (photo courtesy Ginny Diamond); top right: NNU nurse leaders with AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond (photo by Korey Hartwich); middle right: CSA Executive Director Letycia Pastrana at UPO's 39th Annual MLK Jr. Memorial Breakfast with guest speakers Congressman Emanuel Cleaver and DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton; bottom right: MD/DC AFL-CIO President Donna Edwards at the AFL-CIO MLK conference (photo courtesy IAM).

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Loudoun County transit strike update

Last Friday, day three of their [link removed] strike, ATU Local 689 Loudoun County Transit members got a boost as Phyllis Randall, the Chair At-Large of the Loudoun County Supervisors, and Juli Briskman, Loudoun County Board Supervisor, joined the picket line to show their support.

ICYMI: Moore nominates Wu as MD Labor Secretary; GOP tries to shut down congressional unions

[link removed] Moore nominates six department heads, including Portia Wu as Secretary of Labor
"Portia has a tremendous labor background," said MD/DC AFL-CIO President Donna Edwards. "She comes with great experience from both sides - a labor point of view and a business point of view."

[link removed] The House GOP's questionable attempt to shut down congressional unions, explained
"We're not going to stop": Staffers are undeterred by Republicans' union-busting efforts.

Labor Quote: Lucy Parsons

Strike not for a few cents more an hour,
because the price of living will be raised faster still,
but strike for all you earn.
Be content with nothing less.

A labor organizer and anarchist, Parsons led a hunger march in Chicago on this date in 1915.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Strong Winds and Widow Makers. Last week's show: [link removed] The Cambridge Movement.

President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively - 1962

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