What We're Reading Today: Labor News Roundup
Friday, January 24, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)D.C. Teachers Union Files Grievance Over Erroneous
Evaluations,
Washington Post
The Washington Teachers’ Union has filed a
class-action grievance with D.C. Public Schools in the wake of the recent
disclosure that 44 teachers received erroneous performance ratings last
year, including one who was wrongly fired as a result.
Beneath
the Pink Mustache, Labor Notes
Former Metro Council
Assistant Mobilizer Julia Kann's first online article for Labor Notes takes a
look at Lyft, the “peer-to-peer ridesharing platform” that's got taxi
drivers
up in arms across the country. photo: Seattle cabbies
protest unlicensed
competitors. Photo: Teamsters Local 117