EVENING WITH LABOR AWARD WINNERS: Laborers 657, Organizing Award
Monday, March 11, 2013
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Local 657 has become a real force in the metro community, reaching out to build
strong community-labor alliances through their groundbreaking work organizing
unemployed DC residents with DC Jobs or Else. The coalition of labor, faith and
community groups has been fighting for the District’s First Source law to be
enforced on DC-funded projects.
6 Days to EWL 2013! Join
the metro-area labor community as we honor all our award-winners at this
Saturday's 36th
Annual Evening with Labor; tickets $150 each, table of 10 $1,500: email kmckirchy@dclaborarchives.org or
call 202-974-8221.
photo: DC Jobs or Else activists picket a DC
construction site on 6/20/2012; photo by Jaime Flores/LiUNA
Mid-Atlantic