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Teaming up for a healthy workplace

Laurel public works employees demand worker rights

Student debt is a worker issue

2023 EVENING WITH LABOR PREVIEW: OPEIU 2, IATSE 22 & UFCW 400 to receive organizing awards

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Today's Labor History

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Transit Strike Picket Lines in Leesburg, Woodbridge and Manassas: Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2023

Prince William County Transit - Teamsters Local 639; 14700 Potomac Mills Rd, Woodbridge,VA. (3:30 am to 5 pm); 7850 Doane Drive, Manassas, VA ( 9 am - 5 pm)
Loudoun County Transit - ATU Local 689; 43031 Loudoun Center Place, Leesburg - 3:30 am to 3 pm.

Donate to the ATU689 strike fund at: [link removed] Local 689 Loudoun County Transit Strike Fund by clicking here.

MWC Evening with Labor: Fri, March 3, 6:30pm - 11:00pm

Martin's Crosswinds, 7400 Greenway Center Dr, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA ([link removed] map)
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Teaming up for a healthy workplace

Last week, AFSCME Maryland teamed up with the teachers' unions in support of HB 900/SB 355 (Public Buildings - Indoor Air Quality). "We all deserve to work in safe & healthy environments," [link removed] tweeted AFSCME Maryland. "That starts w/indoor air quality standards & workplaces that have proper ventilation & are free of mold."

Laurel public works employees demand worker rights

Department of public works employees testified at the Laurel City Council Monday night. "With UFCW 1994/MCGEO they are demanding the right to collective bargaining, which is currently not in the city code for department of public works employees," reports John Barry.
photo by Amy Millar/UFCW 1994

Student debt is a worker issue
"We are on the steps of the Supreme Court demanding that they cancel student debt!" [link removed] tweeted SEIU 500 yesterday.

2023 EVENING WITH LABOR PREVIEW: OPEIU 2, IATSE 22 & UFCW 400 to receive organizing awards

The Organizing Awards recognize efforts to bring the benefits of unionization to unorganized workers in the Metro Washington area. This year's winners are OPEIU 2, IATSE 22, and UFCW 400. The 2023 Evening with Labor will be held this Friday, March 3, at Martin's Crosswinds in Greenbelt; [link removed] click here to order tickets.


OPEIU 2: Continuing its years-long streak of nonprofit organizing, Local 2 remains one of the most active and successful unions to win campaigns with diverse groups of nonprofit workers. Between 2021-2022, employees at the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), DC SAFE, Defenders of Wildlife, The Public Interest Network, EMILY's List, MADRE, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights, and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) all - about 1,000 new members -- won unions with OPEIU Local 2. Contract bargaining is now underway as Local 2's new members fight to secure their rights and build a powerful coalition of unionized nonprofit employees under OPEIU's Nonprofit Employees United (NEU), a growing initiative that brings member leaders together to improve their workplaces as a united front.


IATSE 22: IATSE Local 22 has organized community theatres, including 40 at the Signature Theatre and more than 60 at the Shakespeare Theatre.

UFCW 400: UFCW 400 organized seven workplaces covering 260 workers' including workers at Politics and Prose, Union Kitchen, Kaiser Permanente, MOM's Organic Market, La Colombe Coffee Roasters, Zen Leaf, and Potomac Holistics.

Labor Quote: Quentin Blackman
"I'm proud to be a part of the Senate community that helped make this happen. I know I spoke to so many of the Senators myself, some several times."

As one of dozens of Senate cafeteria workers who received layoff notices three times in 18 months, Blackman - a member of UNITE HERE 23 -- was a key leader in helping to secure a first-ever union contract for dining hall workers at the U.S. Senate.

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary. Last week's show: [link removed] Celebrating Black History Month.

After five years of labor by 21,000 workers, 112 of whom were killed on the job, the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) is completed and turned over to the government. Citizens were so mad at Pres. Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam had been named, that it was later changed to Boulder Dam, being located near Boulder City, Nev - 1936

CIO president John L. Lewis and U.S. Steel President Myron Taylor sign a landmark contract in which the bitterly anti-union company officially recognized the CIO as sole negotiator for the company's unionized workers. Included: the adoption of overtime pay, the 40-hour work week, and a big pay hike - 1937

Screen Actors Guild member Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award, honored for her portrayal of "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind" (Actually leap year Feb. 29) - 1940

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Hiring Hall: DC-area union jobs, plus [link removed] click here for more listingshttp://www.dclabor.org/hiring-hall.html !

Administrative
[link removed] Workers' Compensation Administrative Assistant, AFGE, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/22/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Customer Service Representative, AFGE, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/17/2023) District of Columbia
[link removed] Confidential Legal Secretary, AFGE, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/17/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Accounting Clerk II - Payroll - Accounting Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/22/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Accounting Manager - Accounts Payable - Accounting Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/22/2023) District of Columbia
[link removed] Audit Clerk IV - Grade 8, CWA, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/27/2023) District of Columbia

Communications
[link removed] Video Editor - Communications Department, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/24/2023) District of Columbia
[link removed] Pressman I - Grade 8, CWA, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/16/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Campaign Communications Manager, PowerSwitch Action, remote or based out of a partner office (partner cities include: San Jose, Chicago, and New York) (Posted: 2/17/2023)

[link removed] Assistant Editor, SIU (Seafarers International Union), based in Camp Springs, MD (Posted: 2/16/2023) Maryland

Legal

[link removed] Associate General Counsel - Office of the General Counsel, AFSCME, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/23/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Senior Staff Attorney - Work Structures, NELP, based out of Berkeley, CA; Washington, DC; or New York City, NY (Posted: 2/27/2023) California, District of Columbia, New York

[link removed] Assistant General Counsel - Healthcare Division, SEIU, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/15/2023) District of Columbia

Misc

[link removed] Energy Project Coordinator, CJNRC (Climate Jobs National Resource Center), this is a REMOTE position (CJNRC is based in New York) (Posted: 2/24/2023)

[link removed] Executive Director, DMO (Democratic Municipal Officials), based in Washington, DC (requires regular travel) (Posted: 2/17/2023) District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia

[link removed] Occupational Safety Professional/ Industrial Hygienist (Entry Level) - Safety & Health Department, IBT, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/15/2023)

[link removed] Democracy for All Digital Coordinator, LCV, location is Flexible (LCV is headquartered in Washington DC, the employee may decide whether to work remotely or from an LCV office) (Posted: 2/23/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Director of Budget and Finance - NFFE Headquarters, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/27/2023) District of Columbia
[link removed] Deputy Director - State Power Program, SEIU, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/16/2023)

[link removed] Workforce Development and Training Manager, UFCW, based in Washington, DC (on-site) (Posted: 2/17/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Occupational Safety Professional/ Industrial Hygienist (Entry Level) - Safety & Health Department, IBT, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/15/2023)

Organizing

[link removed] Organizer, SEIU 500, based in Gaithersburg, MD (Posted: 2/17/2023) Maryland
[link removed] Community Organizer, (APRI (Memphis A. Philip Randolph Institute), based in Memphis/Rural West TN (Posted: 2/21/2023)

[link removed] Organizing Director, (FCFT, Fairfax County Federation of Teachers, AFT Affiliate Local 2401) based in Springfield, VA (Posted: 2/23/2023) Virginia

Political

[link removed] Government Affairs Administrative Associate, LCV, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/16/2023) District of Columbia
[link removed] Political Organizer, SEIU32BJ, based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/22/2023) District of Columbia

[link removed] Political Coordinator, UNITE HERE (Local 25), based in Washington, DC (Posted: 2/24/2023) District of Columbia

Research

[link removed] Researcher, SEIU (1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East), positions available in both the New York, NY and Baltimore, MD areas (Posted: 2/23/2023) Maryland, New York

 

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