2011: DC Labor's Year In Review (Part 2)
Tuesday, January 3, 2012(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
2011:
DC Labor’s Year In Review (Part 2)
From Wisconsin solidarity to the Verizon strike, Occupy DC and a host of local
struggles, 2011 was a banner year for the metro area labor movement. As
Union
City looks forward
to reporting on a New Year of solidarity in 2012, we’re taking a moment to
dip
into the 
Union City archive and remember some of the
highlights of the past year...
March
12: Rockin'
Out At Evening With Labor
Long
before the last notes
of Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s impromptu a capella rendition of
“Joe
Hill” faded away, the more than 900 labor activists crowded into the Omni
Shoreham’s ballroom knew they’d just attended one of the most memorable
Evening
with Labor dinners in the 34-year history of the
event...
April
4: "I
Am A Worker"
Chanting “We
are one!”
over a thousand activists marched through the streets of downtown Washington
Monday -- the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. -- to show their solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana
and other states “where politicians backed by corporate CEOs are trying to
take
away the rights for which Dr. King gave his life,” said NAACP President Ben
Jealous...
April
19: Young Activists Take To Streets To Link Environment, Labor
Chanting “The
youth are
rising- no more compromising!” thousands of fired-up young environmental and
labor rights activists rallied, marched and blocked the streets of the
nation’s
capital yesterday. “There’s a real connection between environmental
injustice
and economic injustice, which directly affects workers,” Marge Dodson –
from
Wesley University in Connecticut - told Union City…
University of Maryland students staged a sit-in Friday to demand that the school dump Daycon, the local cleaning contractor that’s repeatedly been found guilty of violating federal labor laws…
June 15: DC Residents, Workers Demand That Verizon "Pay Its Fair Share"
Saying that Verizon owes millions of dollars in unpaid taxes - thereby robbing states and cities of vital funds - dozens of District residents and workers rallied and marched through Downtown DC yesterday to demand that the global telecommunications giant be held accountable.