Management at DASH, the city-owned transit company in Alexandria, agreed to back off on their anti-union campaign after strong pressure from the labor movement and political allies.
DASH had hired a notorious union buster in response to their drivers joining the transit worker union. A delegation of union leaders and local elected officials visited the DASH garage on Monday “to determine,” reported ATU Director of Field Mobilization Chris Townsend, “whether the City is abiding by their announced stand-down from their anti-union campaign.” DASH drivers and their supporters plan to pack a DASH board meeting this Wednesday in Alexandria; the election is on Thursday. You can read more on our website at dclabor.org Get a double dose of labor culture on today's labor calendar, starting with the DC Labor Chorus on Labor Live@5 today right here on WPFW 89.3FM, and then at 6 catch the free screening of “Adios Amor -The Search for Maria Moreno” at the Takoma Busboys and Poets; complete details, as always, at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1974, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union activist Karen Silkwood was killed in a suspicious car crash on her way to deliver documents to a newspaper reporter during a safety investigation of her Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma. You can hear more about this on our Labor History Today podcast, just search for Union City Radio on your favorite podcast app. Today’s labor quote is by William “Big Bill” Haywood, founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of America, and secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners. A strike by the Western Federation of Miners strike was crushed by the militia in Butte, Montona on this date in 1914. Big Bill Haywood, who said: “The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Visit unionplus.org to find out how union members might take advantage of a limited-time wireless offer from AT&T.
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