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Farmers market workers organize; Keolis strike spreads to Prince William County; The trouble with Keolis; “Make me wanna holler”; Prince George’s County “is a union town”!
Today’s labor quote: Martin Luther King Jr.     
Today’s labor history: Farm Labor Organizing Committee signs agreement with Campbell Soup.

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Dozens of area building trades workers and their community and political allies rallied in Greenbelt on Wednesday night.
Today’s labor quote: Wala Blegay
Today’s labor history: Fight for $15 rallies across U.S.   

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Marvin Gaye, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King at Tuesday night’s Leesburg rally by striking Keolis transit workers.
Today’s labor quote: Julius.
Today’s labor history: NYC furriers strike.   
  
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The French transit company – whose workers are striking in Loudoun and Prince William County – also has problems in Reno, Las Vegas and Raleigh.
Today’s labor quote: Susan B. Anthony.
Today’s labor history: Civil Works Emergency Relief Act relieves Depression-era poverty and unemployment

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Teamsters 639 members strike Keolis in Prince William County; ATU 689 members have been striking the company in Loudoun County for last four weeks.
Today’s labor quote: ATU 689.
Today’s labor history: Western Federation of Miners strikes for the 8-hour day.   

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Freshfarm Workers Union unionizes workers at DC-area farmers markets.
Today’s labor quote: Pasha Fesenko.
Today’s labor history: Hollywood writers end 3-month strike.

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Defenders of Wildlife not so great with people; Defenders of Wildlife settles; workers demand contract; Rejecting a “culture of fear”; Two organizing wins; Freshfarm workers unionize.
Today’s labor quote: Frederick Douglass.
Today’s labor history: Birth of John L. Lewis, president of the Mine Workers and founder of the CIO.

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25 employees responsible for staffing and operating 28 local farmers markets in DC, Maryland and Virginia join UFCW 400.
Today’s labor quote: Freshfarm workers organizing committee.
Today’s labor history: Forty workers killed in Staten Island explosion.

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Johns Hopkins grad students join Teachers and Researchers United; education professionals at the Maryland School for the Deaf join the AFT.  
Today’s labor quote: Nicole Goldberg.
Today’s labor history: Boeing engineers and technical workers strike.

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Fired Defenders of Wildlife worker says “Enough is enough; we're sick of losing people, we're sick of being seen as the enemy.”
Today’s labor quote: Eleanor Roosevelt.
Today’s labor history: Vigilantes beat IWW organizers in San Diego.   
 
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