NEWS: DC fire fighters won a significant victory last week when the DC Court of Appeals ruled in their favor in a long-running dispute over overtime. The Court affirmed Local 36's position that DC fire fighters should receive overtime after 42 hours of work in a week, as negotiated in their contract.
And today’s the deadline for contributions to the Community Services Agency’s Labor’s Holiday Basket project. Non-perishable goods, gift cards or cash will go directly to help area working families in need during the holidays; contact Kathleen McKirchy at 202-974-8221 or check out CSA’s page on the dclabor.org website for details. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1907, an explosion in the Darr Mine in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania killed 239 coal miners. Seventy-one of the dead share a common grave in Olive Branch Cemetery. December 1907 was the worst month in U.S. coal mining history, with more than 3,000 dead. And on this date in 1983, the 47-day strike at Greyhound Bus Lines ended with members of the Amalgamated Transit Union accepting a new contract containing deep cuts in wages and benefits. Striker Ray Phillips died during the strike, run over on a picket line by a scab Greyhound trainee. Today’s labor quote is by Criss Jami: “Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.” Criss Jami is a poet, singer, essayist and existentialist philosopher.
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