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With arts funding in the nation’s capital facing "devastating cuts," IATSE Local 22 is calling on area activists and artists to demand that the City Council keep funding the arts... : : MORE
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Working Families Win Wisconsin State Senate, Vow to Hold Politicians to Account
Yesterday's Wisconsin election results, in which Governor Scott Walker (R) held onto his office but lost the state Senate, "is not the end of the story..."
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Jun 7, 2012
Labor Steps Up for Shoebox Project
An SUV overflowing with shoeboxes left the Community Services Agency yesterday...
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Jun 7, 2012
Award-Winning Short Doc Screening Tonight
When it comes to politics, retired coal miner Sebert Pertee sees one big problem: the rich keep getting richer while working people lose ground...
· Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO · Jun 7, 2012
Events
Haymarket Books presents "Education and Capitalism"
Join Teaching for Change, Busboys & Poets, and Haymarket Books as teacher activists discuss the struggle for public education...
· Jun 7, 2012
"Divide" Film Screening
Winner of the Best Short Doc award at the Workers Unite Film, "Divide" is the story of Sebert Pertee, a retired miner and union organizer in West Virginia...
· Jun 7, 2012
APALA DC "Every Vote Counts" Voter Registration Drive
Join the APALA-DC, KAFO, and VAFO as they join forces to register voters at the Korean-American Association of Virginia Annual Job Fair...
· Jun 9, 2012
Labor News Feeds
NMB Orders Election at American Airlines
The National Mediation Board (NMB) decided last night to move forward with a union election at American Airlines among nearly 10,000 passenger service agents and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Ed Wytkind writes that the NMB did...
· AFL-CIO Blog · Jun 7, 2012
Today in Labor History: June 07; Labor Book: No Place to Be Sick; Labor Humor: “The Boss’s Itinerary”
Today in Labor History: June 07 Founding convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The merger brought together the Retail Clerks International Union and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America – 1979 Also on this date: Militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colo.,...
· UCS Labor News Daily · Jun 7, 2012
Greece: Municipal workers call electoral strike, threatening to derail crucial June 17 vote
LabourStart headline - Source: The Post
· Labourstart World Labor Updates · Jun 8, 2012