Daycon Loses Another Round, Owes Workers Over $1 Million
Friday, September 30, 2011
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Daycon now owes its workers over a million dollars. Workers at the Upper
Marlboro, MD-based janitorial and maintenance supply company – represented by
Teamsters Local 639 – struck last year and subsequently offered to return to
work. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has told Daycon make the
striking workers whole for any loss of earnings and other benefits suffered as a
result of the company’s refusal to reinstate them, in defiance of the NLRB’s
orders to do so. The NLRB on September 21 adopted an Administrative Law
Judge’s ruling that Daycon has engaged in various unfair labor practices, the
latest in a string of wins for the union. “This is a major victory,” said
Teamster Local 639 President Thomas Ratliff, “Our members have held strong for
over 17 months and the government has ruled on more than one occasion that
Daycon violated the law.” According to Ratliff, the monetary damages owed by
Daycon now top $1 million and are growing quickly because the NLRB ordered that
interest on the losses be compounded daily. - photo by Chris Garlock