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Transdev bus strike Day 8 update: Wet, but "We're not going anywhere"
Last big push for Tuesday's labor vote
Worried BWI workers file more safety charges against airport contractor
AFSCME demands safe staffing in Maryland
VA transit workers fight Fairfax union-busting
Office workers ratify contract at SEIU
Trump administration backs down, withdraws "pay to protest" rules
Today's Labor Quote
Today's Labor History
LABOR CALENDAR; [link removed] click here for latest listings
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Transdev bus driver picket line (ATU 689): Fri, November 1, 3:30am - 5:00pm; Sat, November 2, 3:30am - 5:00pm; Sun, November 3, 3:30am - 5:00pm
Gates of the Cinder Bed Road Division, 7901 Cinder Bed Road, Lorton, VA
Come to Fredericksburg to Knock Doors for Neri! Sat, November 2, 9am - 9pm; Sun, November 3, 9am - 9pm
Jane Pickren's house, 11409 Roslyn Rd., Fredericksburg, VA (map)
Virginia Labor Walk (Annandale) with AFSCME President Lee Saunders and former Governor Terry McAuliffe: Sat, November 2, 9am - 12pm
NOVA Labor Office 4536 - B John Marr Dr., Annandale, VA
Virginia Labor Walk (Dublin): Sat, November 2, 9am - 12pm
5110 Cougar Trail Rd, Dublin, VA 24084
Virginia Labor Walk (Newport News): Sat, November 2, 9am - 12pm
UA Local 110 Hall 7812 Warwick Blvd., Newport News, VA
Virginia Labor Walk (Norfolk): Sat, November 2, 9am - 12pm
Ironworkers Local 79 Hall, 5307 E. Virginia Beach Blvd., Norfolk, VA
Virginia Labor Walk (Richmond): Sat, November 2, 9am - 12pm
CWA Local 2201 Hall, 5809 Lakeside Ave., Richmond, VA
Virginia Labor Walk (Roanoke): Sat, November 2, 9am - 12pm
SMART 100 Hall 2101 Dale Ave. SE, Roanoke, VA
Labor Walk for Derrick Mallard (Bowie, MD): Sat, November 2, 9:30am - 12:00pm
IBEW Local 26, 4371 Parliament Pl # A, Lanham, MD 20706
photo: WIN DC shows their support for Transdev strikers; [link removed] download the sign here, post on Twitter and tag @ATULocal689
Transdev bus strike Day 8 update: Wet, but "We're not going anywhere"
As Lorton bus drivers prepare to enter Day 9 of their strike against Transdev, the ATU Local 689 Metrobus workers at WMATA's Cinder Bed Road garage "are a little wetter thanks to today's rain, but their morale remains high," reports ATU's Todd Brogan. "'We're not going anywhere' is the mood," Brogan added. On Thursday, bargaining with Transdev resumed, four members of the VA General Assembly submitted a [link removed] letter to Paul Wiedefeld and Senator Bernie Sanders issued a [link removed] message of support. Pickets continue over the weekend (see Calendar); for latest solidarity updates follow ATU Local 689 on [link removed] Facebook.
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photo: UFCW 400 at Transdev picket line on Wednesday
Last big push for Tuesday's labor vote
Election Day is next Tuesday, November 5th, and labor is hitting the doors throughout the metro Washington area this weekend to get out the union vote. Among the candidates are bus driver (and ATU 689 member) [link removed] Derrick Mallard and local Carpenters union president [link removed] Neri Canahui-Ortiz. See Calendar, above, for details on all the labor walks.
Worried BWI workers file more safety charges against airport contractor
Workers at BWI continue to report feeling unsafe and have filed a second round of charges with the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) alleging that their employer has again violated safety regulations.
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AFSCME demands safe staffing in Maryland
Members from AFSCME Council 3 headed to Annapolis last Monday to demand a solution to the growing crisis around staffing in state agencies.
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VA transit workers fight Fairfax union-busting
Dozens of transit workers and their allies picketed the Fairfax Connector's West Ox garage Wednesday morning to protest the County's move to try and break the Cinder Bed Road strike by putting out WMATA routes with Connector buses.
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Office workers ratify contract at SEIU
SEIU and OPEIU Local 2 announced on Tuesday that that they have reached an agreement on a new contract after a majority of Local 2 members voted to ratify SEIU's offer. [link removed] Read more here
Trump administration backs down, withdraws "pay to protest" rules
In response to more than 140,000 comments received from the public and stakeholders, the National Park Service (NPS) on Monday announced it was "withdrawing its August 2018 proposal to revise the First Amendment and Special Use Permit regulations for the National Mall, President's Park and other national parks in the Washington, D.C. area."
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photo: at the January 21, 2017 Women's March; photo by Chris Garlock
Today's Labor Quote: Peter Cooper
The American industrialist and philanthropist (February 12, 1791 - April 4, 1883), who said:
"Every manufacturer ought to remember that his fortune was not achieved by himself alone, but by the cooperation of his workmen. He should acknowledge their rights to share the benefits of that which could not exist without their faithful performance of duty. Not until the capitalist is just enough to recognize this truth, can he ever join a group of workmen and feel himself among his friends."
Today's Labor History
Labor History Today (10/28): Cannabis organizing; 2007 Writers Guild Strike
[link removed] Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this show, originally posted November 4, 2018, Patrick Dixon talks with Clara Mejía Orta about workers in the cannabis industry in California, and Writers Guild of America West president David Goodman remembers the 2007 strike by 12,000 film and television screenwriters. Plus: Bill Fletcher on the 1892 general strike that brought 20,000 black and white workers together in New Orleans; David Fernandez-Barrial on the four million jobs created by the Civil Works Administration in 1933 for Depression-era unemployed; and Dan Duncan pays tribute to the workers lost when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975.
Last week's show: (10/20/19): [link removed] Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
November 1
Nation's first general strike for 10 hour day; Philadelphia - 1835
Thirty-seven black striking Louisiana sugar workers were murdered when Louisiana militia, aided by bands of "prominent citizens," shot unarmed workers trying to get a dollar-per-day wage. Two strike leaders were lynched - 1887
Malbone tunnel disaster in New York City; inexperienced scab motorman crashes five-car train during strike, 97 killed, 255 injured - 1918
November 2
150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Wash. - 1909
Railroad union leader & socialist Eugene V. Debs receives a million votes for President while imprisoned - 1920
President Reagan signs a bill designating a federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., to be observed on the third Monday of
January - 1983
November 3
Striking milk drivers dump thousands of gallons of milk on New York City streets - 1921
Labor history courtesy David Prosten. photo: IWW free speech fight; photo courtesy [link removed] Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout
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