Union members at the Washington Post will picket at 12:30p today (see Calendar at right) to demand a fair contract. "We need everyone's support now more than ever," said the Washington-Baltimore News Guild bargaining committee. Off-the-record bargaining failed recently and the union's negotiators say the return to open bargaining "speaks to how unsatisfactory the Post's proposals have been." As usual, “everyone was a winner” at the Community Services Agency’s annual golf tournament on Monday, with two dozen teams enjoying perfect weather at the all-union Enterprise Golf Course. “Thanks to all our players and sponsors!” said CSA Executive Director Kathleen McKirchy. This year's winning teams: 1st: ATU 689-1; 2nd: Ashcraft Gerel; 3rd: Doyle Printing. Team photos now posted on Facebook. The 22nd annual tournament benefitted CSA’s Emergency Assistance Fund. photos by Chris Garlock "I have listened to all the speakers, and I have no further patience for talk. I am a working girl, one of those striking against intolerable conditions. I am tired of listening to speakers who talk in generalities. What we are here for is to decide whether or not to strike. I make a motion that we go out in a general strike." - Lemlich (right) was a garment worker involved in a strike agains the Traingle Shirtwaist Co. (see Today's Labor History) Source Striking textile workers in Fall River, Mass., demand bread for their starving children - 1875 The Int’l Typographical Union renews a strike against the Los Angeles Times; a boycott runs intermittently from 1896 to 1908. A local anti-Times committee in 1903 persuades William Randolph Hearst to start a rival paper, the Los Angeles Examiner. Although the ITU kept up the fight into the 1920s, the Times remained totally nonunion until 2009, when the GCIU—now the Graphic Communications Conference of the Teamsters—organized the pressroom – 1893 Int’l Ladies' Garment Workers Union begins strike (above) against Triangle Shirtwaist Co. This would become the "Uprising of the 20,000," resulting in 339 of 352 struck firms—but not Triangle—signing agreements with the union. The Triangle fire that killed 146 would occur less than two years later - 1909 Twenty-nine west coast ports lock out 10,500 workers in response to what management says is a worker slowdown in the midst of negotiations on a new contract. The ports are closed for 10 days, reopen when President George W. Bush invokes the Taft-Hartley Act - 2002 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services |