Daycon Loses Another Round, Owes Workers Over $1 Million

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Daycon now owes its workers over a million dollars. Workers at the Upper Marlboro, MD-based janitorial and maintenance supply company – represented by Teamsters Local 639 – struck last year and subsequently offered to return to work. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has told Daycon make the striking workers whole for any loss of earnings and other benefits suffered as a result of the company’s refusal to reinstate them, in defiance of the NLRB’s orders to do so. The NLRB on September 21 adopted an Administrative Law Judge’s ruling that Daycon has engaged in various unfair labor practices, the latest in a string of wins for the union. “This is a major victory,” said Teamster Local 639 President Thomas Ratliff, “Our members have held strong for over 17 months and the government has ruled on more than one occasion that Daycon violated the law.” According to Ratliff, the monetary damages owed by Daycon now top $1 million and are growing quickly because the NLRB ordered that interest on the losses be compounded daily. - photo by Chris Garlock