With just a few days until their contract expiration, UFCW Local 400, Giant and Safeway "remain far apart on nearly every issue," reports Local 400. For the first time, Safeway and Giant are negotiating with Local 400 separately. "While the companies are divided, we are united," says Local 400. "We remain strong and united with each other, with UFCW Local 27, with the Teamsters who drive the trucks and work the warehouses, and with Giant/Ahold and Safeway/Albertson's workers across the country . We expect Giant and Safeway to come to us with a fair contract, in the event they do not, we continue to prepare." This week union representatives and members donned their UFCW Local 400 team jerseys and collected signatures on a petition encouraging customers and communities to ask Giant and Safeway to "do the right thing." Watch Local 400's latest video here. Click here for more information and to sign up for text alerts. photo: Local 400 members Andrea and Brian at Giant #147 Letter carrier Shearly Shawn took on the task of encouraging Montgomery County's post office workers to give generously through their worksite campaign this month as the CFC coordinator, organizing presentations at over 20 Montgomery County locations which included CSA staff on the program. "NALC 3825 actively supports the CFC and we try to make sure our members know how to give and give generously," said Shearly. "And we support CSA because they help working families- including some of our members." In addition to CSA, Shearly also invited speakers from A Wider Circle, a Montgomery County-based charity helping homeless families move to self-sufficiency which partners with CSA's Building Futures program, and L-Dubs Love, founded by a retired postal worker in memory of her daughter, who died of cancer, to help families of children with cancer come to NIH for care. photo: Annette Waller (left), founder of LDubs Love, and Shearly Shawn, NALC Branch 3825 and CFC Coordinator, at the Germantown Post Office VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD, a local lawyer who frequently argues on behalf of First Amendment rights, was worried this week that Donald Trump might use the Secret Service to keep protesters at bay, and “sanitize their event from the reality of public dissent.”
On this date in 1904, the New York City subway, the first rapid-transit system in America, opened. More than 100 workers died during the construction of the first 13 miles of tunnels and track. In 1935, three strikes on works-relief projects in Maryland were underway today, with charges that Depression-era Works Projects Administration jobs were paying only about 28 cents an hour—far less than was possible on direct relief. Civic officials in Cumberland, where authorities had established a 50-cent-per-hour minimum wage, supported the strikers, And in 1951, the National Labor Council was formed in Cincinnati to unite Black workers in the struggle for full economic, political and social equality. The group was to function for five years before disbanding, having forced many AFL and CIO unions to adopt non-discrimination policies. - compiled/edited by David Prosten at Union Communication Services |