2011: DC Labor's Year In Review (Part 4)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)August 10: Verizon Strikers: "No Contract, No
Peace!"
On Tuesday, red-clad picketers marched outside the Verizon
Wireless store on F Street, NW in Washington, DC to urge Verizon to settle a
fair contract that will give workers more benefits instead of taking them away.
Almost 45,000 workers are on strike throughout the New England and Mid-Atlantic
regions of the United States...
September 1: Activists
Stage "Main Street" Sit-In at Majority Leader Cantor's Office
Hundreds of
activists demanding a “Main Street Contract” staged a sit-in outside House
Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R., VA 7) Richmond district office Thursday.
Another group was blocked from attending a "Citizen’s Advisory Council
Meeting" Wednesday night by police and private security...
September 22: Office
Cleaners Rally For Good Jobs, Strong Communities
Area office cleaners
have hit the streets in recent days to demand their chance at sharing in the
American Dream. Negotiations began last week for a new union contract covering
over 1,500 cleaners in Montgomery County, Maryland, 5,000 commercial cleaners in
Washington, D.C., nearly 4,000 cleaners in Northern Virginia, and over 700 in
Baltimore...
October 5: OccupyDC:
Report from McPherson Square
Like its New York City model, OccupyDC has
started small. About 30 protestors were in McPherson Square on Tuesday afternoon
on Day 3 of the local occupation, standing in solidarity with those who have
been occupying Wall Street in New York City for the last few weeks...