AFL-CIO Gingerbread Competition Raises Over $800 for Laid-Off Workers

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

The AFL-CIO’s Gingerbread House competition raised $861 this year, which is being donated -- through the MWC's Community Services Agency -- to “our local union brothers and sisters with UNITE HERE Local 25 who were recently laid off from L’Enfant Plaza Hotel,” reports Katrina Blomdahl. The winning house, submitted by the AFL-CIO’s Political Department, featured a replica of the AFL-CIO building, caroling AFL-CIO officers, a train carrying toys for tots, and, of course, Santa and his reindeer.