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Clerks, teamsters and building service workers at Boston Stores in Milwaukee strike at the beginning of the Christmas rush. The strike won widespread support—at one point 10,000 pickets jammed the sidewalks around the main store—but ultimately was lost. Workers returned to the job in mid-January with a small pay raise and no union recognition - 1934 The SS Daniel J. Morrell, a 603-foot freighter, breaks in two during a strong storm on Lake Huron. Twenty-eight of its 29 crewmen died; survivor Dennis Hale was found the next day, near frozen and floating in a life raft with the bodies of three of his crew mates. He had survived for nearly 40 hours in frigid temperatures wearing only a pair of boxer shorts, a life jacket, and a pea coat - 1966 National Labor Relations Board rules that medical interns can unionize and negotiate wages and hours - 1999 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services After five months, Swartha Tujare, a 67-year old immigrant, has finally won her job back as a Dulles International Airport wheelchair attendant, as well as thousands of dollars in back-pay and interest. Although it admitted no wrongdoing, the Huntleigh USA Corporation has settled a National Labor Relations Board Complaint, after SEIU 32BJ filed charges with the NLRB alleging that Huntleigh fired Tujare in retaliation for her participation in a 2016 strike to protest the company’s poverty wages. “This is a tremendous weight off my shoulders," said Tujare, who earned just $6.15 per hour plus unreliable tips and lives in publicly-subsidized housing in Reston, VA. "I’m happy to put the ordeal behind me.” “Huntleigh should learn a legal and moral lesson that those men and women busting their backs at our airports as contractors should be able to work with dignity,” said former Virginia Congressman Perriello, who signed a letter earlier this year calling on Tujare’s employer to act responsibly. photo: Tujare (in pink jacket) and Perriello at Dulles Airport rally yesterday; photo courtesy 32BJ Twitter Suggestions for questions for the 2018 COPE (Committee on Political Education) DC candidate questionnaire are due no later than Tuesday, December 14 (click here to download). Email them to Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO Director of Legislative/Political Affairs David Dzidzienyo at [email protected]. "Please submit no more than two questions per electoral race," says Dzidzienyo. "Also, please specify which questions pertain to which race." The races under consideration are: DC Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, Mayor of the District of Columbia, Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, At-large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia, Ward Member of the Council of the District of Columbia (Wards 1, 3, 5 & 6), Attorney General of the District of Columbia, United States Senator ("Shadow Senator") and United States Representative ("Shadow Representative"). |