Working class
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the social class composed of persons who work for wages, generally excluding managers, professionals, and those not at the lower end of the educational and economic scale.
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Ron Majors interview, 2021-11-16
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc032_05.mp3
Abstract
Ron Majors reflects on his decades working as a bus operator for WMATA (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) and the importance of the union for strengthening the rights of workers. Though he joined Metro in 1980, two years after the 1978 Metro wildcat strike, he saw evidence of the strike's lasting legacy regarding labor militancy all around him. Ron talks about what it meant to always be 'strike ready' and how this affected labor relations. He also speaks about his Catholic...
Dates:
2021-11-16