Metro DC Represents at "Next Up" Young Worker Summit
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Over
800 young workers from around the world, including several from the metro
DC area, gathered in Minnesota this
past week for the AFL-CIO’s second Next Up Young Worker Summit.
Attendees
exchanged ideas about building a strong labor movement for the millennial
generation, participated in workshops such as leadership development, creating
successful young worker groups, creating a cross-generational labor movement,
and learned about the AFL-CIO's new America Wants to Work campaign.
Attendees also participated in community service projects to help local
Minneapolis youth, attended two separate CWA leafleting actions, and a powerful
jobs rally.
“Each of us needs to provide leadership—forceful, ground-level
leadership,”
said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the conclusion of the Summit. “We
need
to challenge ourselves and push each other to take risks, and that means to
risk failure. We need to create strategic plans, put them into action and hold
ourselves and each other accountable, so we actually carry through, and build
our plans to the next level….Together we are the most powerful progressive
force on the face of the earth.” Click
here
for a more in depth look at the Summit.
- report/photos by
Jessica Ingerick; at left: Maryland and Virginia conference
attendees