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DC school leaders finally get contract

Rail strike averted

Sodexo federal workers rally


Moore meets with metro-area trades

Labor Quote: Sodexo workers

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DC school leaders finally get contract

After nearly two years without a contract, DC school leaders finally got a deal on Wednesday when DC Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a new, four-year collective bargaining agreement between DC Public Schools (DCPS) and the Council of School Officers (CSO). The union represents 840 DCPS employees from a variety of positions, such as school leadership, administrators, and service providers. The new contract "will allow us to increase compensation for hundreds of CSO members who are serving our school communities," said Mayor Bowser. CSO President Richard A. Jackson said that "Their perseverance in the face of the many school challenges, especially during the pandemic, has allowed our students and families to seamlessly continue to receive exemplary service." Meanwhile, the District's 4,000 teachers -- members of the Washington Teachers' Union -- have gone three years without a contract, and WTU president Jacqueline Pogue Lyons told The Washington Post that "morale is really low." [link removed] Read more here.


Rail strike averted

Narrowly averting a nationwide strike, rail workers early Thursday morning reached a tentative agreement with the nation's largest freight rail carriers which includes wage increases, bonuses, and no increases to insurance copays and deductibles. The deal came through after down-to-the-wire talks hosted by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, and includes exempting time off for certain medical events from draconian attendance policies, one of the workers' main demands. President Biden himself made the announcement early this morning, calling the deal "a win for tens of thousands of rail workers who worked tirelessly through the pandemic to ensure that America's families and communities got deliveries of what have kept us going during these difficult years." The contract will not become final until rail union members have an opportunity to review its terms and approve it through ratification votes. Read more [link removed] here [link removed] and [link removed] here. [link removed]


Sodexo federal workers rally

"We work too hard to be this poor, we're gonna need a little more! We work too hard to be this poor, We're gonna need a little more!" Sodexo workers at the government's largest food service contractor rallied Tuesday at the House of Representatives to expose financial struggles and unequal treatment. "The reason we're standing right outside here in front of the House of Reps today is because we want them to listen to the concerns of our members who work and serve their staff," said Marlene Patrick-Cooper, President of UNITE HERE Local 23. "They can serve them, but they cannot serve them and take care of their families. Our folks only want a good equal, honest day's pay for a honest day's work." The rally by UNITE HERE Local 23, which represents 20,000 workers, including unionized federal building food service workers, called attention to wages that aren't keeping up with inflation and disparate treatment at work.


Moore meets with metro-area trades

Local building trades leaders met with Maryland gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore at the Steamfitters Local 602 union hall earlier this week. "In a Moore-Miller administration, labor will always have a seat at the table," Moore tweeted after the meeting. "Together we'll advance workers' rights, ensure access to critical benefits, and build pathways to [link removed]]=AZXHOI4ibqSlMM3ISuDX80lNs3WqdXwoQCh-TMZwgHjrgr1RODIZmgBNQEoE9eEuA56SXvlQ4I9CRdYJ0Gsw9YiLYYT4LJaYXrujtPe-LwAhvXX-eZKBqtYs1pstzEjQedziZbV7YRR9-rj1QRCiqNMw9LBSNy7Su2Y04J5t3CBbQQ&__tn__=*NK-R #WorkWagesWealth for all. Because we know that our state can't succeed unless our workers do." IBEW 26 Business Manager Joe Dabbs and Political Director Tom Clark spoke with Moore about Project Labor Agreements, license enforcement, and wage theft issues. "A friend in the Governor's mansion will only help our ability to turn out the most productive, well-paid electricians in the state," said Dabbs. Unions attending included the Mid-Atlantic Pipe Trades Association, Steamfitters Local 602, UA Locals 5 and 486, IBEW Locals 24, 26, 70 & 307, IUEC Local 10, SMART Local 100, IUPAT DC 5, and Ironworkers Local 5.


Labor Quote: DC-area Sodexo workers

"Who feeds this city? We feed this city! Who feeds this city? We feed this city!"

Hear the rallying Sodexo workers -- members of UNITE HERE 23 -- on this morning's [link removed] Union City Radio.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] A miasma of metals. Last week's show: [link removed] NC Labor History Revealed!.

September 16
400 Chinese, Portuguese and local field hands, along with 125 Paiute Indians, struck the Pleasanton Hop Company in one of the largest and earliest, though unsuccessful, interracial strikes in California agriculture. - 1893

September 17

Ninety-eight United Mine Workers of America members and a minister occupy the Pittston Coal Company's Moss 3 preparation plant in Carbon, Va., beginning a year-long strike. Among other issues: management demands for drastic limitations in health and pension benefits for retired and disabled miners and their dependents and beneficiaries - 1989

September 18

A 20-month illegal lockout of 2,900 Steelworkers members at Kaiser Aluminum plants in three states ends when an arbitrator orders a new contract. Kaiser was forced to fire scabs and fork over tens of millions of dollars in back pay to union members - 1999

- David Prosten

 

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