After making headlines for secretly overcharging Metro customers for years, the transit agency is under fire again from one of its biggest unions, which accuses General Manager Paul Wiedefeld of threatening the public's health and safety. WMATA has been outsourcing custodial work usually done by members of ATU 689, in what the union calls a “blatant” violation of its contract. The resulting “unreliable custodial work” poses potential security risks, Local 689 said Wednesday, pledging to take collective action unless Wiedefeld complies with the contract by this Sunday.
Visitation for AFGE’s Yvette Martin-Gross – who passed June 8 – will be Monday, June 25 at From the Heart Church Ministries, 4949 Allentown Rd, Suitland, MD from 10 a.m. until the funeral at 11a. More details in Monday’s Union City.
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A total of 86 passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen’s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen’s League of America - 1918 Violence erupted during a coal mine strike at Herrin, Ill. A total of 36 were killed, 21 of them non-union miners - 1922 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services |