Over the past six years, Washington has been a hotbed for organizing wins by local transit workers. More than 1,500 transit workers have joined the Amalgamated Transit Union in DC, Maryland and Virginia since 2013.
ATU says the workers have organized because they saw that the union has been effective at winning strong contracts with high wages, pensions, healthcare and other benefits. And just as important, workers rejected several attempts to break their union, thanks to solidarity painstakingly built up over time. On today’s labor calendar, locked out Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians will be back out on the picket line today from 8am to 9:30am; for details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1905, the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World – also known as the I.W.W., or Wobblies -- concluded in Chicago. Charles O. Sherman, a former American Federation of Labor organizer, was elected president. Today’s labor quote is by labor organizer Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor, born on this date in 1862 in Staten Island, NY. Her activities included investigating child labor in glass factories and mines, and working undercover in meat packing plants to verify the nightmarish working conditions that author Upton Sinclair had revealed in "The Jungle." Ella Reeve Bloor, who said: “It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re planning to go to the movies this summer, you can save up to 37% off tickets with Union Plus Movie Discounts at national chains. Visit unionplus.org/movies.
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