Striking bus drivers returned to the picket line in Lorton, Virginia yesterday morning after a short break to spend time with family over Thanksgiving. The strike by ATU Local 689 Metrobus workers employed by Transdev at WMATA's Cinder Bed Road garage is now in its second month and bus drivers for the Fairfax Connector – which is also contracted out to Transdev -- have begun preparations for a possible strike there as well, over many of the same issues.
In today’s labor history, on this date in 1946, a general strike began in Oakland, California, started by female department store clerks. Today’s labor quote is by Rosa Parks, the housekeeper, seamstress and civil rights activist who refused to go to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, fueling the growing civil rights movement's campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South's "Jim Crow" laws. Rosa Parks, who said she had decided: "I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. The best gifts are union-made, so check out the Union Plus Online Store and get 20% off union-made apparel and gear for a limited time. Visit shopunionplus.org and use code 2019COM at checkout.
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