Ward 1 Candidate Forum To Focus On Labor Issues, Affordable Housing
Thursday, July 29, 2010(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
With the DC primaries less than two months away, Ward 1 City
Council candidates will appear before labor and community groups tonight for a
candidate forum. Sponsored by DC Jobs with Justice, Defeat Poverty DC, Empower
DC, Jews United for Justice and the Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO
--among others -- the forum will feature incumbent Jim Graham, and challengers
Jeff Smith, Bryan Weaver and Marc Morgan. “This is an important opportunity
for labor to join community groups, pose questions to the candidates and hold
elected officials accountable,” says Alya Solomon of the Metro Washington
Council AFL-CIO. Questions will address the role of Project Labor Agreements in
ensuring local hiring and apprenticeships, the need for responsible contracting
language to prohibit the city from doing business with contractors who have
violated workers’ rights, and next steps to expand employment and job
readiness services.The forum will run from 6-8:30p at True Reformer Building,
1200 U Street. The forum is free and open to the public, and there will be an
open floor for questions. For more information contact Ruth Castel-Branco at
202-974-8281. - photo: at the August 2009 Take Back DC
rally; photo by Adam Wright