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…