Moore hires labor veteran as state workers’ union prepares to seal new contract

Gov. Wes Moore’s administration announced Wednesday the hiring of a D.C. labor council president experienced in public employee contract negotiations as the year-end talks with the state’s largest workers’ union near contract ratification. Dyana Forester, who most recently served as the president of the Metropolitan Washington Labor Council, AFL-CIO, will join the governor’s team on Jan. 10.