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Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Support DC's Service Workers
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Riders will join in solidarity with local Washington labor unions at three events on Thursday, Oct. 2:
2:30 p.m. Join a UNITE picket line with union president Bruce Raynor, in support of workers at Sterling Laundry at the Churchill Hotel, 1914 Connecticut Ave. NW.
Lend your voice to the Laborers' rally for ACECO workers with union president Terry O'Sullivan at the US Treasury Department, 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
7 p.m. Support DC parking lot attendants, who are members of the HERE Local 27. HERE president John Wilhelm, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, and AFL-CIO executive vice president Linda Chavez-Thompson will speak at Farragut Square (K Street, between 17th and Connecticut NW).
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