At D.C.’s only public university, Washington City Paper reports that one of the nation’s most successful metropolitan area adjunct organizing drives has hit a roadblock as the part-time professors face unforeseen bargaining challenges coming from the administration. UDC adjuncts and their union officials with SEIU Local 500 say that at first the school dragged its feet while they waited at the bargaining table. But now that the school has finally come to the table, the union says that the administration refuses to negotiate on most contract demands because of D.C.’s public-employer-friendly collective bargaining law. Read more on City Paper's website at washingtoncitypaper.com
On the Labor Calendar, NoVA Labor continues precinct walks and phone banks tomorrow starting at 9a in Annandale; go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for complete details. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1891, two African-American sharecroppers were killed during a cotton-pickers’ strike in Lee County, Arkansas. By the time the strike had been suppressed, 15 African-Americans had died, another six had been imprisoned, and a white plantation manager was killed as well. Today’s labor quote is by Pope Francis, who visited DC this week: “The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.”
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