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College Park MOM's Organic Market workers file for union election

Loudoun County transit workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike, if necessary, to win fair contract

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College Park MOM's Organic Market workers file for union election

Workers at MOM's Organic Market in College Park, MD last Thursday announced plans to unionize with United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400. The workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday. The College Park store is the third MOM's Organic Market to file for a union election. An election date has yet to be determined by the NLRB. In August, workers at a Baltimore store in Hampden [link removed] voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing with the Teamsters, and today, workers at the MOM's Organic Market in Timonium will [link removed] vote in a union election as well.


Loudoun County transit workers vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike, if necessary, to win fair contract

ATU Local 689 members at Loudoun County Transit, employed by the private contractor Keolis, last week voted over 96% in favor of authorizing a strike, if necessary, to win a fair contract. "Keolis underbid this contract and thought they were going to profit off of underpaying these workers forever," said Raymond Jackson, President and Business Agent for ATU Local 689. "Our members aren't going to let that happen. They thought they could stop us with illegal threats, retaliation, and other union-busting tactics, but they were wrong. Keolis needs to get serious. Half measures aren't going to cut it."


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The United Mine Workers of America President called a meeting on November 13, 1938, in Pittsburgh's Islam Grotto, founding the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to "organize workers into a powerful industrial union."

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Founding convention of the Federation of Trades and Labor Unions is held in Pittsburgh. It urges enactment of employer liability, compulsory education, uniform apprenticeship and child and convict labor laws. Five years later it changes its name to the American Federation of Labor - 1881

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