The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union has filed charges against the National Center for Transgender Equality for firing all the workers in the bargaining unit, after they asked for voluntary recognition of their union.
The union said that “By busting their staff’s union and retaliating against collective action, (NCTE has) done a disservice to their organization’s own mission,” noting that one in six transgender workers has lost a job due to discrimination. On today’s labor calendar, bus drivers in Lorton continue to picket as they enter the second month of their strike against Transdev; For all the latest labor events, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York City’s shirtwaist industry. Dubbed the Uprising of the 20,000, it was the largest strike by women to date in American history. The young strikers’ courage, tenacity, and solidarity forced the predominantly male leadership in the “needle trades” and the American Federation of Labor to revise their entrenched prejudices against organizing women. Although the strikers won only a portion of their demands, the uprising sparked five years of revolt that transformed the garment industry into one of the best-organized trades in the United States. The young strikers faced opposition from the manufacturers, the police, and the courts, leading to today’s labor quote by one enraged judge, who scolded them, saying “You are striking against God and nature.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Want to earn $100 just for switching wireless carriers? Then it’s the perfect time to switch to AT&T! For a limited time, union members can get $100 in credits per line when they switch to AT&T – and take advantage of other union-exclusive discounts with the AT&T Signature Program. Visit unionplus.org/att.
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