Trace Your Food, Jump-Start Your Union at Bread & Roses Series

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Learn how to trace your food  and jump-start your union at the next two Bread & Roses events at the 5th Street Busboys and Poets. In “Tracing Our Food: Connecting the Dots in our (Preferred) Food Supply Chain,” – next Monday, Feb 17 from 6-8p – the UFCW’s R. Dennis Olson will lead a discussion about the importance of building alternative sustainable food supply chains and the promise of union co-ops. And in “How to Jump-Start Your Union,” -- Wednesday, March 5 -- Labor Notes will host a book party for “How to Jump-Start Your Union,” which tells how Chicago teachers transformed their union and gave members hope. Washington Teachers Union President Elizabeth Davis will join former Union Cities Assistant Mobilizer Julia Kann (now a Labor Notes staffer) to talk about the new book and local teacher struggles.