What with all the ghouls and goblins out tonight, Halloween is a spooky time but what’s really scary for local transit workers is that Fairfax County taxpayers are now subsidizing a private company’s strikebreaking operation.
French multinational Transdev is already being struck by more than 130 workers who are members of ATU Local 689 at the WMATA Cinder Bed Road Facility in Lorton, Virginia. This Monday, the union received word that the Fairfax Connector was being used by Transdev to run routes that have been shut down by the MetroBus strike. This means that Fairfax Connector workers are being coerced by Transdev management to undermine their striking sisters and brothers. ATU Local 1764 picketed in Fairfax yesterday and plan to take their own strike vote next week. On today’s labor calendar, striking Transdev bus drivers continue their picket line in Lorton, VA; we’ll check in with them and get a labor angle on the World Series on this week’s edition of Your Rights At Work at 1pm here on WPFW; for details and the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1891, the state of Tennessee sent in leased convict laborers to break a coal miners strike in Anderson County. The miners revolted, burned the stockades, and sent the captured convicts by train back to Knoxville. Today’s labor quote is by George Henry Evans, who published the first issue of the Working Man’s Advocate on this date in 1829. Evans said his paper was focused on the inequities between what he described as the “portion of society living in luxury and idleness” and those “groaning under the oppressions and miseries imposed on them.” You can support Union City Radio – and all the great programming here at WPFW – by making a generous contribution today; call 202-588-9739 or go to wpfwfm.org and Thank You! Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’ve ever thought you could use some legal advice, think about enrolling in the Union Plus Legal Program for access to a nationwide network of attorneys at a low price. Take advantage of even lower pricing during open enrollment now until November 30. Visit unionplus.org/legal.
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