After months of negotiations – and leafleting several performances -- Strathmore ticket office employees have finally settled a contract. The three-year agreement with members of IATSE Local 868 includes wage increases and extending and protecting health insurance and retirement benefits. Local 868 Business Agent Anita Wilkinson said the Strathmore workers “stuck together to assure they got a contract they were satisfied with.”
It’s the first contract for the Strathmore ticket office workers, and the union said that the agreement “will serve as the foundation upon which Strathmore and IATSE Local 868 will build a mutually beneficial long-term relationship.” Wilkinson added that "We have plans to keep working with other box offices to assure the same benefits." Here’s today's labor history, On this date in 1912, vigilantes beat IWW organizers for exercising free-speech rights in San Diego. Today’s labor quote is by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, on the philosophy of the Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW "They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts." Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a labor leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the IWW.
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