Video: "LiUNA! and the Civil Rights Movement":

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

The LiUNA! Mid-Atlantic Region’s “Profiles in Courage: LiUNA! and the Civil Rights Movement” takes a close look at LiUNA! members in the civil rights movement, and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. among workers in the Washington D.C. Metro area. The first in a series of five short films being released this week features Laborer Rudolph Tobin (left). Tobin helped build the MCI — now Verizon — Center, Washington Harbor and L'Enfant Plaza, but he couldn't take a seat at the lunch counter at the G.C. Murphy store near Capitol Hill until he and other civil rights activists protested to win that right. However, as a LiUNA! organizer and local leader, he always made sure the needs of the workers on his job sites were met.  Tobin spent more than 50 years as a Laborer in Washington DC, and now serves on the Retiree Council of LiUNA! Local 657. Click here for the second video, on Thomas Milton, who devoted his career to protecting workers in DC's concrete industry.
- JH Flores & Nicole Duarte, LiUNA! MidAtlantic Region