When D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced the Washington Commanders’ return to RFK campus, she described it as part of a larger effort to replace the tens of thousands of federal government jobs eliminated by the second Trump administration.

However, as local union organizer Paul Schwalb explained, it remains to be seen how, or whether, the District’s proposed $1 billion investment will yield high-wage jobs with benefits for those working in the hotels, restaurants and other areas of commerce throughout the 180 acres of public land.

“They have made no commitment [at] this point to create good jobs there,” said Schwalb, executive secretary treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 25 , which represents more than 7,500 non-managerial hospitality workers in the D.C. metropolitan area. “The kind o

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