While next year’s campaign for president of the United States is generating lots of attention, there’s a race closer to home local labor folks are focusing on. Bus driver Derrick Mallard is running for Bowie City Council in District 4. "As a union member,” says Mallard, who’s a vice president at ATU Local 689, “I know first-hand how important the decisions of politicians can be to the everyday lives of workers."
Metro Council president Jackie Jeter, herself a former bus driver, enthusiastically welcomed Mallard’s candidacy, saying that “Derrick represents the very best hopes and dreams of a resurgent labor movement that is not only taking to the streets but to the halls of power at every level across the country.” Bowie voters go to the polls on November 5. On today’s labor calendar, there are three labor rallies tomorrow at 4pm – one each in DC, Maryland and Virginia -- as supermarket workers and janitors rally and march for justice. For complete details and all the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 2003, sanitation workers working for private haulers in Chicago won a 9-day strike featuring a 28 percent wage increase over 5 years. Today’s labor quote is by the arbitration panel in the 1997 Smith Barney sexual harassment case, which found that the workplace at the retail stock brokerage was, quote "permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insults sufficiently severe and pervasive as to alter the conditions of her employment and create an abusive working environment." In the suit, tentatively settled on this date in 1997, a group of female employees charged that branch managers asked female workers to remove their tops in exchange for money and one office featured a "boom boom room" where women workers were encouraged to quote, unquote, "entertain clients." Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. This fall, watch the big game in person! Union members can save on professional sports and other events with Union Plus Concerts and Events Discounts. Visit unionplus.org/entertainment.
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