Commuters on Route 29 Tuesday morning wondering why pregnant women were picketing honked their support when they saw the banner reading “Verizon Has Labor Pains!” “It’s been nine months since we began bargaining,” said CWA 2108 president Marilyn Irwin, “and we’re not much closer to a contract than we were on that first day.” While negotiations continue, the Verizon workers are frustrated and Irwin said that a strike “is a very real possibility. It’s just day to day and workers are angry that a company that’s making a billion and a half dollars a month in profits is trying to take away our job security and ruin our work lives.” Despite those frustrations and the chilly morning, the Local 2108 members were in good spirits Tuesday morning as they patted bellies exaggeratedly distended with pillows and waved at passing commuters.
On today’s labor calendar, check out “Your Rights at Work” today at 1pm here on WPFW 89.3FM, as we discuss patient safety with the DC Nurses Association. For the latest local labor activities, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar Here’s today’s labor history: In this date in 1900, groundbreaking began on the first section of the New York City subway system, from City Hall to the Bronx. Today’s labor quote is by William O. Douglas “The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.” William O. Douglas served as U. S. Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975; his term, lasting 36 years and 209 days, is the longest term in the history of the Supreme Court.
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