Transit workers say contractor “stomping on free speech rights”

Protesting the suspension of three NIH shuttle workers, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1764 members will demonstrate outside the Medical Center Metro station in Bethesda this morning from 7-9a. They’re calling on NIH to stop union busting and demand that private contractor W&T Travel Services bargain in good faith. “The NIH and W&T are stomping on our free speech rights,” said ATU Local 1764’s Sesil Rubain. “These suspensions were retaliation and the NIH turned a blind eye to this blatant and illegal union busting.” Three NIH shuttle workers were suspended by W&T earlier this week for wearing union buttons on NIH “Button Day.”