What We're Reading Today: Labor News Roundup
Friday, January 31, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
OPM Plans To Trim 356
Employees In March, Washington
Post
“It’s disheartening and sad,”
said
Charletta McNeill, president of the American Federation of Government Employees
Local 32, which represents many of the affected workers. “When you receive a [layoff
notice],
it’s a game-changer. We had a lot of employees questioning what’s
next.”
One-Day Strikes Yield Union in
D.C., Labor
Notes
Former Assistant Mobilizer Julia
Kann
reports on how Smithsonian food service workers were able to move from one-day
strikes to union representation. photo by Julia Kann