Today's Labor Action Highlights: Early Voting & Labor to Labor Lit-Drops; Nurses' Bake Sale, Minimum Wage Walking Tour, Metro Council Meeting; Labor FilmFest
Monday, June 16, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Today’s
Labor Action Highlights: Early
Voting & Labor to Labor
Lit-Drops; Nurses’ Bake Sale,
Minimum Wage
Walking Tour, Metro Council Meeting; Labor
FilmFest "Billy Elliot"
Screening
Early Voting & Labor to Labor
Lit-Drops: Early voting for
Maryland voters runs daily through this
Thursday, June 19, from 10a until 8p at the
following locations Montgomery
County; Prince
George's County; Calvert
County; Charles
County; St.
Mary's County. Click
here for labor’s
endorsements in the Maryland General
Assembly, as well as Montgomery
County and other local jurisdictions. Labor to
Labor lit-drops will be held
next Saturday; click
here for details.
Nurses’
Bake Sale: MedStar Washington
Hospital Center registered nurses,
affiliated with National Nurses United, will
conduct a bake sale early this
morning to raise funds to help the
profitable hospital purchase working
wheelchairs and other basic supplies. Nurses
working at the region’s largest
medical center have reported a critical
shortage of basic equipment and
supplies, despite the hospital grossing over
$1.1 billion in 2011. 8-9a; corner of First
St. and Irving
St. NW DC.
Minimum
Wage Walking Tour: The United Food
and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 and
the Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement (LCLAA) will host a press
conference at 10a this morning at the
Hillandale Safeway to kick off a
week-long minimum wage walking tour aimed at
bringing awareness to area
employees on the new minimum wage increase, set
to take effect October 1, 2014.
10a; Hillandale Shopping
Center Safeway, 10101 New Hampshire Ave. Silver
Spring, MD.
Metro
Council Meeting: Don't miss
tonight's Metro Council meeting, the last
before the summer break.
Get the latest local labor news -- including
Labor to Labor
work in next week’s primaries -- report on
your local's activities and catch up
with your friends and colleagues in the
metro-area labor movement. 6:30P at the
AFL-CIO, 815 16th
Street NW DC.
Labor
FilmFest "Billy Elliot"
Screening: Set against the
backdrop of England’s lengthy, bitter mining
strike in 1984, the film magically blends
class-conscious history,
conscience-raising drama, and rousing music and
dance numbers to celebrate the
transformative power of following your dreams.
7:30p, AFI, 8633 Colesville Rd Silver
Spring, MD.