Contracted service workers at National Airport and Dulles last week voted to walk off the job on strike against their employer, Huntleigh Corporation. The group, represented by SEIU 32BJ, plans to picket at both airports soon. Workers will attend the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's meeting this Wednesday. They've been waiting for a vote on their demand that the Authority ensure that all contractors pay their workers $15 an hour; they currently earn as little as $6.15/hr plus unreliable tips.
On today's labor calendar, Cecily McMillan discusses "From Occupy Wall Street to Resisting Trump" tonight at 6pm at the Takoma Busboys & Poets, where copies of her memoir, "The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan," will be available for sale. For the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1924, Samuel Gompers, president and founder of the American Federation of Labor, died in San Antonio, Texas, where he had been rushed after falling ill in Mexico City while attending the inauguration of the new president of Mexico. Today’s labor quote is by Sam Gompers Sam Gompers, who said "Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion."
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