EVENING WITH LABOR AWARD WINNERS: Laborers 657, Organizing Award

(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