The 2020 Evening with Labor, rescheduled for November 12, honors those who have gone above and beyond to support and fight for the local labor movement. We’ll be featuring them this week in Union City. This Friday, October 29, is the deadline to reserve your ticket(s) and/or ad in the EWL program book; Get your ad and ticket orders in now! For ticket credit card purchases, CLICK HERE. For check payments or to avoid additional online fees, register using this google form. Note that an option to attend virtually is available this year.
Organizing Award ATU 689 Local 689 organized DASH after over a decade of work, fighting back against company opposition and their union busting law firm. The campaign culminated in an almost unanimous strike vote that won the workers a contract that took them from the lowest paid fixed route operators in the region to having the highest top salaries along with an incredible 401(k). Local 689 then took its efforts to Cinder Bed Road, a recently privatized MetroBus garage, and a strike there won a contract with Transdev that raised pay, healthcare benefits, and improved working conditions, as well as an agreement with WMATA to bring the workers in-house as full WMATA employees. IUOE 99 Local 99 won 14 major organizing victories in 2019, many at high-profile Top Secret government sites. Local 99 also won three hotel campaigns, one of which (the JD Marriott) included a non-stop bosses' campaign that featured 27 captive audience meetings in 31 days. They also won important campaigns at Audi Field, Andrews Airforce Base, the United States Department of the Interior, The Office of Personnel Management, and several large commercial sites. Comments are closed.
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