Your Dallas labor movement intends to win the May 24 runoff elections. Organizer Marilyn Davis has scheduled door-to-door canvassing for Saturday, May 7.
North Texas labor has two picnics for International Workers Day on May 1. Tarrant celebrates 12-3PM at Randol Mill Park, 1901 W Randol Mill Rd in Arlington.
Dallas Central Labor Council affiliates are looking forward to our Christmas Party 6-9PM on December 15 at the Bryan Street Tavern, 4315 Bryan in East Dallas. Members are asked to bring Kroger gift cards and a “White Elephant” gift, (nothing offensive) gender neutral, $10 or less, for a party game involving swapping gifts. Affiliated members attending the AFL-CIO party may RSVP here.
The Dallas AFL-CIO Central Labor Council meeting on November 17 was a lot like a celebration. Newly elected State Representative Victoria Neave drew three separate standing ovations as she spoke about labor’s role in her historic victory. The inner city of Dallas has voted labor’s way for several cycles, but Neave’s victory was the first conquest of new territory in the outer ring.
Mark York of the Dallas CLC and Tim Smith of the Tarrant CLC said the victory by Victoria Neave – the labor-backed candidate for Texas House District 107 – was the product of a painstaking process that saw to it that union voters heard about the importance of voting for candidates backed by the Committee on Political Education (COPE).
