The recent push by workers in Hampton Roads to form labor unions would be strongly backed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a longtime Virginia Beach public utilities employee maintained. "This is what Dr. King fought for," Terry Green, 64, said at an MLK Day celebration in downtown Norfolk.
On Jan. 18, the newly formed Virginia Beach City Workers Union, UE Local 111, and faith community supporters rallied before the city council demanding a real voice for safety, dignity, living wages and an end to institutional racism on the job. City workers from the Public Works, Public Utilities and…