With last Thursday’s introduction of Fast Track authority in the US Senate, the battle against the unfair trade deal has taken on a new urgency and much of the struggle’s focus will be in the metro area, on Capitol Hill as well as on local members of Congress who are still undecided on the issue. Among the DC-area Fast Track actions, NOVA Labor will be running phonebanks all week in Annandale and there’s a Fast Track Town Hall in Bethesda on Friday; go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for complete details, which we’ll update as more info comes in.
Also on today’s labor calendar, check out the Capital Bikeshare Town Hall Meeting tonight at 6pm at the DC Public Library on 7th St NW. In today’s labor history, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the Taylor Law on this date in 1967, permitting union organization and bargaining by public employees, but outlawing the right to strike. And in 1997, some 12,500 Goodyear Tire workers struck nine plants in what was to become a three-week walkout over job security, wage and benefit issues. Today’s labor quote is by essayist and novelist Pico Iyer: “’Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.”
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