After 82 days -- the longest transit strike in this region's history-- the Cinder Bed Road bus strike may be over. Late Tuesday afternoon, ATU Local 689 announced that it had reached a tentative agreement with Transdev that covers the workers at WMATA's Cinder Bed Road Facility. The tentative agreement includes improved healthcare and retirement plans along with substantial wage increases.
And on Wednesday, DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced that Power Design, a national electrical contractor, will be required to pay $2.75 million dollars to workers and the District as part of a settlement in a wage theft and worker misclassification case. On this weekend’s labor calendar, march with the Coalition of Labor Union Women at the Women’s March on Saturday; meet them at 9am on Freedom Plaza; Then on Sunday, don’t miss the “Gonna Take Us All MLK Holiday Ball” starting at 8pm at the Silver Spring Civic Building; for ticket info and all the latest labor events listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, guaranteeing federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively. Today’s labor quote is from “Take This Job and Shove It,” by Johnny Paycheck, listed by Billboard magazine as the most popular song in the U.S. on January 18, 1978: Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more My woman done left and took all the reasons I was working for You better not try to stand in my way 'cause I'm walkin' out the door Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus.Hey, ring in 2020 with a resolution you can actually keep, and that’s to get life insurance. The Union Plus Life Insurance program can help secure your family’s financial well-being. The unique assistance benefits of Union Plus Life Insurance policies provide extra peace of mind for union families. Visit unionplus.org/lifeinsurance.
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DC’s call-in show about worker rights: those you have, those you don’t, how to get them and how to use them. On today's show: Elizabeth Falcon: National electrical contractor to pay $2.75 million to workers and the District for wage theft Lane Windham, WILL Empower report/update "Take This Job and Shove It!" Johnny Paycheck Case Closed, with Bob Samet, Ashcraft & Gerel Elise Bryant: CLUW contingent in Women’s March on Saturday; “Gonna Take Us All” MLK Holiday Ball Sunday Produced by Chris Garlock and Peter Pocock; engineered by Michael Nasella Members of NABET-CWA Local 31 have won one of the largest back pay settlements in the 84-year history of the National Labor Relations Board. The settlement negotiated by NABET-CWA and its locals in both DC and
New York City, requires CNN America to pay a total of $76 million dollars to hundreds of broadcast technicians who were fired in 2004 when CNN terminated its subcontract with union-represented employees at Team Video Services. NABET-CWA President Charlie Braico said that “This incredible settlement in workers’ favor should send a very clear message to CNN and to other employers that union-busting is illegal and has consequences.” On today’s labor calendar, catch this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work today at 1pm right here on WPFW, and for the latest labor events listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1920, thousands of Palmer Raids detainees won the right to legal representation at deportation hearings. The “Palmer Raids” were the nation’s first “Red Scare,” targeting mostly Italian and European immigrants. Today’s labor quote is by Bayard Rustin, an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Bayard Rustin, who said: “We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus.Hey, ring in 2020 with a resolution you can actually keep, and that’s to get life insurance. The Union Plus Life Insurance program can help secure your family’s financial well-being. The unique assistance benefits of Union Plus Life Insurance policies provide extra peace of mind for union families. Visit unionplus.org/lifeinsurance. “In the last several years, we’ve become very-focused on the behavioral health--mental, emotional issues associated with our profession.”
That’s Harold Schaitberger, President of the Fire Fighters, on the latest episode of State of the Unions, the AFL-CIO’s podcast. “Post-traumatic stress is certainly a term that people are more familiar with now but it’s something that has plagued our industry if you will for a number of years. But part of our problem in addressing it was trying to remove the stigma that had been associated with you can't admit you’re troubled. You can't admit you have a silent injury. If you do you’re weak. I don’t want you on my apparatus, you know if you’re showing you know an emotional moment or condition. And we realized you know the ignorance of that number one, because these injuries are not unlike a busted knee or a busted shoulder; they’re just a different aspect of the exposures to what our members deal with on a day-to-day basis and the toll that it takes on them.” Fire Fighters President Harold Schaitberger on the latest episode of State of the Unions, available wherever you listen to podcasts. For the latest labor events listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1938, the CIO miners' union in the Grass Valley area of California struck for higher wages, union recognition, and the 8 hour day. The strike was defeated when vigilantes and law enforcement officials expelled 400 miners and their families from the area. Today’s labor quote is from the labor anthem “Solidarity Forever,” which Ralph Chaplin, an IWW member in Chicago for a demonstration against hunger, finished writing on this date in 1915. He’d begun writing it in 1914 during a miner’s strike in Huntington, West Virginia. When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, ring in 2020 with a resolution you can actually keep, and that’s to get life insurance. The Union Plus Life Insurance program can help secure your family’s financial well-being. The unique assistance benefits of Union Plus Life Insurance policies provide extra peace of mind for union families. Visit unionplus.org/lifeinsurance. |
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