Voting Opens for "Scrooge of the Year" Award

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Two of the nominees for DC Jobs with Justice’s 2012 Scrooge of the Year are so heartless they’re not even human. And the others we’re not so sure of either. Ahold USA and JBG Companies join Clarence Otis, Verizon Vice President, Rob Walton, head of Walmart, and the Montgomery County Executive, Council, and Police Chief as this year’s Scrooge nominees. Click here to cast your vote; the “winner” will be announced at the December 15 DC Jobs with Justice annual Winter Cabaret. Ahold won the nomination for trying to run Giant Food into the ground while continuing to buy up other union companies, closing them and then reopening non-union, JWJ says. The Montgomery County Executive, Council, and Police Chief were tapped for attacking collective bargaining rights and laws that benefit all County employees, including using taxpayer resources in a political campaign against their rank and file police officers, while JBG Companies was singled out for trying to destroy affordable housing in DC.