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On November 12th We Are Family and Positive Force held a benefit concert for the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON). D.C. artist Ted Leo and the Pharmacist performed to a crowd of 1,000 people at Sacred Heart church. Social Justice organizations, such as D.C. Jobs with Justice, STITCH, SOA Watch and NDOLN tabled at the event giving information to the concert attendees.

Join us for the release of the ROC Diner’s Guide 2012.

We all enjoy eating out. Unfortunately, the workers who cook, prepare, and serve our food suffer from poverty wages, no benefits like paid sick days, and little or no chance to move up to better positions.
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Who do you think deserves the dubious distinction of Scrooge of the year?

Employees of Unique Residential Care Center voted 165-0 to join Service Employees Inte
ational Union (SEIU) Local 1199 in February of 2010. More than a year later, they still do not have a contract. This is because of the company VMT which manages Unique Residential Center. VMT’s sole CEO Solange Vivens has refused to come to the table and bargain for a fair contract for the workers.

New 4-Year Contract for DC-Metro/Baltimore Office Cleaners Protects 12,000 Good Jobs!

Courtesy of Union City, Monday, October 17, 2011
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Although the strike is over members of the Communications Worker of America (CWA)are still struggling to secure a fair contract with corporate giant Verizon. Some of the cuts that Verizon is trying to make to the workers contracts include: freezing pensions for active employees and eliminating them for new workers, slashing disability benefits for workers injured on the job, and imposing health care payments of up to $6,800 on active employees.

On the mo
ing of September 1, 2011, members of the Service Employees Inte
ational Union (SEIU) Local 500, Union representatives, and DC Jobs with Justice formed a delegation to the DC Department of Employment Services. The purpose of the delegation was to file complaints against employers who are not paying the Living Wage to their employees.

More than a 50 local congregations will celebrate workers this weekend as part of the annual Labor in the Pulpits and Labor on the Bimah programs.

Labor on the Bimah is coordinated by Jews United for Justice and this year will focus on the importance of workers’ rights and organized labor. More info on this year’s events is available online at http://www.jufj.org/our_work/programs_and_events/labor_bimah/2011_organized_labor
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