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Striking VA OmniRide drivers reach agreementAfter a three day strike (Virginia bus operators with PRTC go out on strike, 8/2), AFSCME Local 3001 OmniRide drivers reached a tentative agreement with their employer First Transit on August 5. "The new tentative agreement represents a giant step forward from previous offers on workplace safety, time off and pay," said AFSCME Council president Andrew Washington. "Local 3001 members are an example of what working people can accomplish when we stand together."
This story originally posted on our website on 8/5
Maryland ACLU staff join OPEIU Local 2
Workers at the ACLU of Maryland have joined OPEIU Local 2. The 14-member unit, comprised of organizers, attorneys, legal fellows and assistants, and policy specialists, won an election on July 31. “The staff at the ACLU of Maryland take exercising our rights as employees as seriously as the work we produce on behalf of our clients, Maryland residents, and the broader ACLU of Maryland family,” said the unit’s organizing committee in a statement. “We hope that the ACLU of Maryland will hold itself to the same values we use to fight for our civil liberties every day and apply those values to our internal workplace reform.” The ACLU of Maryland is an affiliate of the national American Civil Liberties Union, a progressive nonprofit that works to preserve and maintain individual freedoms. This is the latest non-profit to join Local 2, following the Solidarity Center, Planned Parenthood, the National Democratic Institute, and PartnersGlobal. photo courtesy OPEIU 2
CSA Golf Tournament fast approaching
Whether or not you’ve been using summer vacation to polish your golf game, now’s the time to sign up for the 2019 CSA Golf Tournament, coming up Monday, Sept. 23. "We sponsor the CSA Golf Tournament," says Julio Palomo, LIUNA Local 11 Assistant Business Manager and CSA board member. "It's always a fun time and a great way to help raise funds for CSA's Emergency Assistance Fund," For more information email [email protected] photo by Chris Garlock
Today's Labor Quote: Lech Walesa
“Tanks can threaten and massacre us, but they will never be able to force us to work.”
Walesa was the co-founder of Solidarity, the Polish union that seized the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk on this date in 1980. Sixteen days later the government officially recognized the union, and many consider the event the beginning of the end for the Iron Curtain.
Today's Labor History
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: Labor lawyer Matt Fusco on Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat, which is facing extermination at the hands of the Trump labor board. Gregory Wood, author of “Clearing the Air: The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace,” and a special LHT remix of the labor classic “Which Side Are You On?”
President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, providing, for the first time ever, guaranteed income for retirees and creating a system of unemployment benefits - 1935
Former AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland dies at age 77 - 1999
photo: Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa holds up the George Meany Human Rights Award as AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland applauds during the AFL-CIO convention in Washington (Nov. 14, 1989). J. Scott Applewhite / ASSOCIATED PRESS
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