What We're Reading: Labor News Roundup
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)SuperShuttle Drivers Find Common Enemy in Veolia, Labor
Notes (3/10): It’s been a bumpy
road for SuperShuttle drivers attempting to organize at three D.C.-area
airports. To win recognition, the drivers must prove they are employees—of a
global corporation that’s making more money off workers’ fees than
customers’
payments. “Before you start the week, you owe them,” driver Patrick Benhene
tells former Union City staffer Julia Kann... photo: UFCW 1994
MCGEO
Politicians: Building Trades Show The Way In Rebuilding
U.S.,
PAI
With the federal
government mired in partisan warfare, U.S. building trades unions are showing
the way in rebuilding the country, while also reaching out – and putting to
work – the women and minorities who will be the future of the construction
industry, two top politicians said Monday at the Building and Construction
Trades Department's annual legislative conference…