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Transdev workers authorize strike

Cool jazz, mural and remembrances honor saxophonist letter-carrier Buck Hill

Big hole-in-one prize at CSA golf tourney

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Transdev workers authorize strike
Transdev workers at the Cinder Bed Road facility have voted unanimously to strike if ongoing negotiations stall. The workers belong to ATU Local 689 and drive the same routes, on the same roads, with the same buses as WMATA, but earn $12 less per hour than other operators in the region because they work for a private contractor. The workers are also demanding improvements to safety and working conditions. "The workers at Cinder Bed have stood together for almost a year to fight Transdev and WMATA to make sure that they're treated with respect," said ATU Local 689 President and Business Agent Raymond Jackson. "This strike authorization vote should serve as a warning to every transit authority and private contractor in the area that workers are fed up with schemes to profit off the low wages of transit workers. Transdev and WMATA cut corners at every turn with the Cinder Bed Facility, but these workers won't let them!"
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Cool jazz, mural and remembrances honor saxophonist letter-carrier Buck Hill
For more than three decades, Roger Wendell "Buck" Hill walked DC's streets delivering mail by day but at night he was "The Wailin' Mailman," a saxophonist who accompanied greats such as Miles Davis, Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie. Hill, a longtime member of NALC Branch 142, was honored at a noontime ceremony - kicked off, of course, with live jazz -- at the Reeves Municipal Center on Tuesday when a 70-foot-tall mural of him wearing his Letter Carrier uniform and playing his sax was unveiled on a building at 14th and U Streets NW. "He was a legend within our ranks and in music," said Letter Carriers Executive Vice President Brian Renfroe. "And we know what his greatness was, as a man and as a Letter Carrier." Hill was so popular for his personality, his work and his sax playing that when he tried to retire once, the Postal Service wouldn't let him do so, one speaker said. Hill played his sax in Europe early in his career, but "wanted to stay in DC to care for his family and because he could always come home," his daughter-in-law, Ruta Doster-Walker said in a brief interview after she and Hill's family accepted a proclamation of August 27 as "Buck Hill Day" in DC.
- report/photo by Mark Gruenberg, PAI News; posted 8/27; follow us @dclabor on Facebook and Twitter!

Big hole-in-one prize at CSA golf tourney
Hit a hole-in-one at this year's Community Services Agency golf tournament and you'll be driving home in a 2019 Lincoln MKC, courtesy East West Lincoln. But you cannot win if you do not play; register now for the September 23 tournament by clicking [link removed] here or email mailto:[email protected] [email protected]. "I'm so excited to have the participation of the unions and allies who have registered so far," said CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote, noting that "there are still spots available but the registration deadline is September 16th."

Today's Labor Quote: Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
From Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech on August 28, 1963 (see Labor History, below)

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Today's Labor History

[link removed] Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week's show: Heidi Thomas on the history of rodeo women; Frances Perkins' labor landmarks; Common revisits MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech; labor and civil rights activists unite to desegregate Glen Echo Amusement Park.

250,000 people participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. The march--initiated by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters--was organized by a coalition of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations. It was here that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. - 1963

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