Month: April 2023

View it in your browser The campaign to “Rollback Prices, Restore & Expand Food Stamps, End Food Deserts, Feed the People, Not War” is taking it to the community. We have a goal of collecting a thousand signed petitions.  DONATE NOW  Venmo@SolidarityCenter WestsideCommunity Outreach Event Food is a Human Right Rollback Prices, Restore & Expand Food […]

This week’s Labor History Today podcast:  Tom Breiding’s songs of struggle. Last week’s show:  The 1922-23 Windber Coal Strike.

Saying that “ACLU D.C. prioritizes justice, equity, and inclusion in its work and, as the workers of this organization, we believe it should maintain those priorities in its self-governance,” workers at ACTU D.C. on Monday told management they had organized with the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild. Read more @ACLUDCunion

The staff of Solid State Books have unionized with UFCW Local 400, the union announced yesterday. The owners of the store — located at 600 H Street NE — have signed an agreement to voluntarily recognize the union, making Solid State Books the second bookstore in the District of Columbia to unionize after booksellers and […]

Workers at the Compass-operated cafeteria at the World Bank will picket this afternoon at 4p (see Calendar). The workers, members of UNITE HERE 23, are in negotiations for new union contracts that keep up with the cost of living. Last week Local 23 released the results of a survey that detailed the ways workers struggle […]

EN: Join us on Monday, May 1st, 2023, as part of a national day of action, an annual statewide strike and a mass march. This year we are demanding: Biden end 287g & extend TPS; the the U.S. Congress pass immigration reform; Wisconsin Republicans stop blocking drivers licenses for all and in-state tuition! Wisconsin School […]