Mark Your Calendars: Local 2's Upcoming Events

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Equal pay day, highlighting the plight of laborers under the south's Jim Crow laws, and more. 

• Love Songs from the Liberation Wars a live, jazz opera production. Opening next week, March 30, 31 and April 1st at the Tommy Douglas Conference Center in Silver Spring, MD. This promise to be one you don't want to miss, as it will take you back to the 1940's era when the Tobacco Workers' struggled during the Jim Crow South. Directed by Elise Bryant and hosted by the Labor Heritage Foundation. Tickets are going fast so reserve them today! 
  
  
• Local 2’s Next Stewards Forum, April 1, 2017 at 10 A.M. Location will be at the Local 2 Office – 8555 16th Street, Suite 550, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
  
  
• *PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN TIME* Local 2’s Quarterly Meeting, Tuesday, April 4th @ 6:00 P.M. Location will be the Capitol Hilton, 1001 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036.
  
  
• Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Wear RED on Equal Pay Day to symbolize how far women and minorities are "in the red" with their pay! This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.   “While the gender wage gap has narrowed, it has not changed statistically in the last year, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Sept. 13, 2016.  Based on the median earnings of all full-time, year-round workers in 2015, women now make 79.6 cents for every dollar men make, a change from 78.6 cents the previous year. Women’s earnings in 2015 were $40,742, while men’s were $51,212. Rounding off the figures shows women’s earnings now at 80 percent of men’s, compared to 79 percent last year.”  
  
  
• Do you have a story suggestions, event announcements, campaign reports, Letters to the Editor and other material are welcome. Should be directed to: Editor: Alicia Nestor, anestor@opeiu-local2.org  
  
  
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