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Subject VA bus strike may spread
Date December 2, 2019 10:45 AM
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Airline workers sit-in at National Airport

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Transdev bus driver picket line (ATU 689): Daily 4:00am - 5:00pm
Gates of the Cinder Bed Road Division, 7901 Cinder Bed Road, Lorton, VA
Show your support for the strike: [link removed] download the sign here, post on Twitter and tag @ATULocal689.

WMATA HQ Picket with Striking Metrobus Workers: Mon, December 2, 7:45am - 9:45am & 11:30am - 1:30pm
600 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001-2610

VA bus strike may spread
Striking bus drivers returned to the picket line in Lorton, Virginia this morning after a short break to spend time with family over Thanksgiving. The strike by ATU Local 689 Metrobus workers employed by Transdev at WMATA's Cinder Bed Road garage is now in its second month and bus drivers (members of ATU 1764) for the Fairfax Connector - which is also contracted out to Transdev -- have begun preparations for a possible strike there as well, over many of the same issues. The National Labor Relations Board is currently investigating 32 separate allegations that Transdev violated federal labor law by failing to bargain in good faith with Local 1764. "This is about the lawlessness and complete disregard of Transdev for federal labor law and these workers," said ATU president John Costa. [link removed] Click here for a more detailed update.

Airline workers sit-in at National Airport
Airline catering workers -- members of UNITE HERE 23 -- staged a sit-in last Tuesday at Reagan National Airport on a historically busy travel day before the Thanksgiving holiday. Workers and supporters called for American Airlines to address poverty wages, expensive health care in the airline catering industry.

Today's Labor Quote: Rosa Parks

The housekeeper, seamstress and civil rights activist refused to go to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, fueling the growing civil rights movement's campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South's "Jim Crow" laws. Parks later said she had decided:

"I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen."

Today's Labor History
This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Making the Woman Worker
Eileen Boris on "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards" from the Working History podcast. Plus this week's labor history highlights!
Last week's show: (11/24): [link removed] FWW&CP, the ILO and Lattimer Redux

December 2
Court documents filed in Boston say Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to 87,500 Massachusetts employees who claimed the retailer denied them rest and meal breaks, manipulated time cards and refused to pay overtime - 2009

December 3
Textile strikers win 10-hour day, Fall River, Mass. - 1866

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes an ordinance setting an eight-hour workday for all city employees - 1867

General strike begins in Oakland, Calif., started by female department store clerks - 1946

5,000 union construction workers in Oahu, Hawaii march to City Hall in protest of a proposed construction moratorium by the City Council - 1976

Arrests began today in Middleton, NJ of teachers striking in violation of a no-strike law. Ultimately 228 educators were jailed for up to seven days before they were released following the Middleton Township Education Association's agreement to take the dispute to mediation - 2001

photo: [link removed] Oakland general strike, courtesy Richard Boyden and libcomm

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