SAMs Workers Continue Public Fight For Justice

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Downtown Safety/Hospitality and Maintenance workers are taking their fight for a union to the streets again this week, with noontime demonstrations planned for Tuesday and Wednesday outside Downtown BID’s headquarters on H street, NW. “Since the SAMs voted for the Machinists union in July 2009, their employer Downtown BID has used every move in the union-buster’s playbook to stamp out the voice of their employees,” says Cory Bythrow, National Communications Coordinator for the National Federation of Federal Employees-IAM. “Now they are spending thousands of tax dollars on union-busting attorneys to file baseless lawsuits and undermine the union’s support among employees.” Watch Union City for updates. – photo: at the April 29 rally to support SAMs workers on H Street NW; photo by Adam Wright