Just hours before their contract expired at midnight last night, local janitors won a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract.
The deal averted a strike by over ten thousand commercial office cleaners in the D.C. area. The janitors, members of 32BJ SEIU, waged an intensive campaign, holding 16 separate strike vote rallies over a two-week period throughout D.C., Montgomery County, Northern Virginia and Baltimore. As part of the large push, area politicians, including D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, rallied with janitors, who marched through downtown D.C. during rush hour two weeks in a row. Details will be released on Monday, October 20th, pending a ratification vote by union members. On today’s labor calendar, although some movement has been reported in the month-long UAW strike against GM, the picketline in White Marsh is scheduled to continue today from 6am to 2pm; For complete details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. You can also get the latest local labor news by following us @dclabor on Facebook and Twitter In today’s labor history, on this date in 1859, abolitionist John Brown led 18 men, including five free blacks, in an attack on the Harper's Ferry ammunition depot, the beginning of guerilla warfare against slavery. Today’s labor quote is by John Brown, who said: “I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, if you have a car, you don’t need to overpay for auto insurance. Union Plus Auto Insurance with SnapQuote helps you get quotes from multiple providers so you can get a great deal. Visit unionplus.org/auto.
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