Labor Quiz: Non-union Drivers?
Monday, May 21, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Independent non-union drivers are known in the trucking industry as: scabs,
pie-cards, or gypsies? Click
here to submit your answer and you could be next week’s
winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: A
“nixie” was an unsortable or misaddressed letter; a “bum” was a damaged
or empty mail sack (Before leaving a station, one clerk would signal another to
toss out the empty mailbags by exclaiming, “Throw the bums out.”); the hook
used to snag the sacks held aloft at the cranes standing outside train stations
is a real thing but we’re not sure if it had a special name. Click
here for Mail by Rail and other great labor history on the APWU’s
website.