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Giant and Safeway bosses in the metropolitan Washington area are “going nuclear” in their attempt to ram through a contract that would push workers out of the middle class, cut health and retirement security, and squeeze even more profits out of union members’ hard work, grocery workers charged Friday, March 2.

In 1977 I and other journalists at the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin called in The Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO to help us organize. The company killed us! They stretched out hearings for month after tedious month, got the NLRB to shrink the potential bargaining unit even to the point of trying to make telephone operators and newsroom clerks part of management.

Five area union hotels were rated among the best of the best by AAA for 2012. Local winners of the coveted Four Diamond Award included the Hay-Adams, Mayflower Hotel, the Omni Shoreham, the Fairfax at Embassy Row and Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on the Potomac, National Harbor. Unite Here Local 25 represents workers at all five hotels.

Building Futures students are learning fast that when it comes to construction, “safety comes first.” The Metropolitan Washington Council Community Services Agency’s program features 10 hours of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) classes run by Sheet Metal Workers Local 100’s certified OSHA instructor Gerhard Klusmann, with the support of Local 100 staffer Ann Braham.