2012: DC Labor's Year In Review (March/April)
Monday, December 17, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)As Union City looks forward to reporting on a New Year of solidarity in
2013, we’re taking a moment to dip into the Union
City archive and remembering some of the highlights of the past
year...
March 22: Verizon
Workers say Contract "Due" after 9 Months: Commuters making their way
through the fog on Route 29 early Thursday morning may have thought they were
hallucinating. Looming out of the fog on the highway were dozens of people. Very
pregnant people...
March 27: Raising
Voices for Health Care at the Supreme Court (right): “The right
wing is making a big test of what kind of society it is we’re going to have”
AFSCME’s Paul Booth said as he walked the picket line in front of the Supreme
Court Monday morning...
March 30: Trayvon
Martin Rally Exposes ALEC's Attacks on Civil & Worker Rights:
“I’m wearing my hoodie today for Trayvon and for all working people” said AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz
Shuler Thursday at a midday rally outside the downtown DC offices of the
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)...
April 3: Giant,
Safeway Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify New Contract (left): Giant
and Safeway workers in the Washington, DC, area represented by United Food &
Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 on Tuesday overwhelmingly ratified a new
collective bargaining agreement that provides for significant wage increases,
improved health benefits and strengthened retirement security...
April
10: Firefighters
& Cops Join Teachers in Budget Protest: Firefighters, police, and
school administrators stood in solidarity with DC public school teachers
yesterday as the Washington Teachers Union (WTU) rallied against budget cuts in
front of the Wilson Building...
April 19: Hotel
Workers Launch Mariott Wardman Picket & Boycott (right):
Hotel workers launched a picket line and boycott at the Marriott Wardman Park
Hotel Thursday morning after contract talks broke down over healthcare, wages
and pension issues...
April 25: Local
Unions Mobilize Against Postal "Destruction": Leaders of local postal
unions are helping mobilize support to head off legislation in Congress they say
would dismantle the U.S. Postal Service...