This week DC Jobs with Justice Launched the Take Back DC Coalition, a broad-based campaign led by labor and community groups working to protect public services for all District residents, strengthen transparency in the way the City does business and hold elected officials accountable by demanding:
* an immediate halt to the privatization of public services and land
* an impact-assessment of recently privatized services
* honoring of union contracts and bargaining in good faith

This year more than 70 area churches, synagogues, and mosques are planning special services to honor workers over Labor Day weekend as part of the annual Labor in the Pulpits, Labor on the Bimah, and Labor on the Minbar program.

Planned programs include a range of activities, including guest speakers from labor and workers' rights organizations, special prayers, luncheons, and celebration through song.

Over 150 workers, labor leaders and community activists demonstrated outside the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Northwest DC last night, filling the busy corner block to capacity as they walked the picket line chanting “Fired workers, corruption too, Fenty don’t deserve any money from you!” Charging that DC Mayor Adrian Fenty has “turned his back on the people who got him elected,” the demonstrators were angry that he has “used his time in office to promote privatization and private profit to the detriment of DC residents and workers.” A