Labor Quiz: Non-union Drivers?

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Independent non-union drivers are known in the trucking industry as: scabs, pie-cards, or gypsies? Click here to submit your answer and you could be next week’s winner!

Last Week’s Quiz: A “nixie” was an unsortable or misaddressed letter; a “bum” was a damaged or empty mail sack (Before leaving a station, one clerk would signal another to toss out the empty mailbags by exclaiming, “Throw the bums out.”); the hook used to snag the sacks held aloft at the cranes standing outside train stations is a real thing but we’re not sure if it had a special name. Click here for Mail by Rail and other great labor history on the APWU’s website.