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Many City of Takoma Park employees perform important work every day that goes unheralded and unsung, but the City would grind to a halt without them. Local artist Renee Lachman will be honoring City employees – members of AFSCME Local 3399 — in a new series of paintings and charcoal drawings, including sanitation workers, gardeners, crossing guards, and […]

After more than two years of back-and-forth with UNFI corporate executives, UFCW Local 400 remains without a contract at Shoppers. “It wasn’t until we announced our first protest on July 20th that UNFI started to respond,” said Local 400. “Enough is enough, we won’t let up until we get the fair contract we deserve!” Weekly […]

Aramark workers at Virginia Commonwealth University have won their first contract. The members of UNITE HERE Local 23 won immediate across the board raises of $3/hr, union health insurance, a pension by the end of the contract and strong civil rights language and protections.

Labor on the Air: On last week’s Your Rights At Work radio show (WPFW 89.3FM Thursdays at 1p): Selma James says “Our Time Is Now”. Writer, feminist and social activist Selma James on the International Wages for Housework Campaign at 50.

Dr. W.E.B. DuBois  and others  organized a silent parade  down Fifth Avenue in New York City  against the  lynching of  negroes  and  segregationist  Jim Crow laws. There had been  nearly 3,000  documented cases  of hangings and other  mob violence against  black Americans  since the  Reconstruction period  following  the Civil War. Read about W.E.B. DuBois  Strange […]

July 8, 2022 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Anti-Imperialism, Police Brutality, Racism, White Supremacy Protesting for Jayland Walker by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, July 6. 2022 The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is […]