Right to Strike Reaffirmed in NLRB Settlement with Unity Disposal

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has reached a settlement agreement with Unity Disposal and Recycling over the company’s firing of workers who went on strike last October. Unity will repay the 42 workers for wages lost during the strike and will post a notice promising not to violate the employees’ rights under federal labor law again. The company had already reinstated the workers back in November, which was also part of the settlement. Dennis Martire, Vice-President and Regional Manager of Liuna’s Mid-Atlantic Region called the agreement “a major victory for working families in the Mid-Atlantic Region because it reaffirms every workers’ right to strike without threat of reprisal.” strike photo by Nicole Duarte