Faith Leaders To Weigh In On Daycon Strike
Monday, May 10, 2010(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Area religious leaders will conduct an ecumenical prayer service
at Daycon on Tuesday morning
to call on the cleaning supplies firm to return to the bargaining table with
Teamsters Local 639 "and bargain in good faith with the more than 50 company
employees that were forced out on strike April 26th." Participants will include
Rev. Raymond Bell, Pastor, First Rising Mt. Zion Church and Chair, DC Workers'
Rights Board, members of the DC Workers' Rights Board, the Interfaith Coalition
for Worker Justice, DC Jobs with Justice, and other religious and community
organizations.
- photo by Chris Garlock