Today’s Labor Calendar
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Union City Radio: 7:15am, WPFW-FM 89.3 FM
2-minute audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.
Your Rights at Work radio show (WPFW 89.3FM): Thu, January 12, 1pm – 2pm
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online and call in at 202-588-0893
NoVA Labor Strategic Plan Discussion: Thu, January 12, 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Join an open discussion about priorities and programs for NoVA Labor for 2023.
AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference: Jan 13 – 16, 2023
TheMLKConference.org for more information and to register.
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Loudoun County Transit workers “stand strong in unity”
Loudoun County Transit members struck at 3 a.m. this morning, after negotiations with Keolis -- the French-owned global corporation that contracts with Loudoun County -- broke down because the company is insisting on a two-tier wage system in which bus operators for local routes would be paid $12 an hour less than commuter bus operators doing the same work. The drivers, members of ATU Local 689, are also angry because although Keolis told county representatives it would not cut benefits when trying to win the contract, “The first thing they did after they got the contract was they took away the health insurance and all the benefits,” Local 689 President Raymond Jackson told Loudon Now.
In a related development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning heard arguments in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Int'l Brotherhood of Teamsters, which could undermine the fundamental right of American workers to strike in order to improve wages, hours and working conditions. |
Labor Quote: Raymond Jackson
“Can you imagine spending your whole career operating a bus, and then at the end of that time frame, you so-called retire, but you retire with nothing—no benefits, no nothing?” |
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Today’s Labor History
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Cambridge Movement. Last week’s show: “No Labor Dictators for Us”.
Novelist Jack London is born. See above for his classic definition of a scab -- someone who would cross a picketline and take a striker's job – 1876
Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson orders police to raid an open-air mass meeting of shipyard workers in an attempt to prevent a general strike. Workers were brutally beaten. The strike began the following month, with 60,000 workers walking out in solidarity with some 25,000 metal tradesmen – 1919
Pres. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board to mediate labor disputes during World War II. Despite the fact that 12 million of the nation’s workers were women -- to rise to 18 million by war’s end -- the panel consisted entirely of men – 1942
David Prosten
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