Thousands of local supermarket workers at Giant are preparing for a strike. While a tentative agreement has been reached with Safeway, Giant management "has refused to agree to a similar fair deal," reports UFCW Local 400. With the contract expiring this Friday, the union says that "all options (are) on the table" and has begun preparations for a possible strike. Talks continued Monday afternoon; watch for updates this morning at dclabor.org "We are ready to do whatever it takes to get a fair contract and we will continue to stand together and fight until we all get the agreement we deserve," said Local 400.
On today's labor calendar, author John Judis will discuss his new book "The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics" today at noon at the AFL-CIO And then tonight at 6 at the Takoma Busboys and Poets, join political writer Harold Meyerson for a discussion about "What’s Next for Labor?" following this year's election. Details on both events -- and the entire local labor calendar -- are on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1881, the founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions was held in Pittsburgh. It urged enactment of employer liability, compulsory education, uniform apprenticeship and child and convict labor laws. Five years later it changed its name to the American Federation of Labor, the precursor to today's AFL-CIO. Today’s labor quote is from the preamble to the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions' constitution "A struggle is going on in the nations of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed...a struggle between capital and labor, which must grow in intensity from year to year and work disastrous results to the toiling millions of all nations..."
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