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Tag: transit organizing

ATU Local 689 workers walk the picket line at Cinder Beds in Lorton, Virginia, October 2019

They killed themselves with greed: How a strike stopped privatization in DC’s Metro

  • December 29, 2019
  • Ray Valentine

Ray Valentine describes how a scheme to privatize transit in the DC area backfired when workers at the private company went on strike

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