WASHINGTON (PAI) Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 400 and their allies took to informational picket lines in metro D.C. on April 5 in a campaign to save local supermarkets and jobs from a mega-merger threat which could also raise prices for consumers.
WASHINGTON Jean Kitongo, an emergency room nurse at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., was out on a picket line on April 11 during a 24-hour forced strike there. She’s got a lot of company, for picketing and often for forced walkouts, coast to coast.