Trailways drivers strike over pension: 1969
Two Trailways bus operators picket the terminal at 12th Street and New York Avenue NW April 15, 1969 after workers walked out over pension issues two weeks earlier.
The rival Greyhound terminal is seen across the street
A separate unit of dispatchers, clerks and other terminal personnel also went on strike.
The strike by 350 members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1023 affected bus service between Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
The strike would last five months and resulted in increased pensions, but did not achieve a central demand of equal union control of the company pension plan.
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Photo by Paul Schmick. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Trailways drivers strike over pension: 1969
Two Trailways bus operators picket the terminal at 12th Street and New York Avenue NW April 15, 1969 after workers walked out over pension issues two weeks earlier.
The rival Greyhound terminal is seen across the street
A separate unit of dispatchers, clerks and other terminal personnel also went on strike.
The strike by 350 members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1023 affected bus service between Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York.
The strike would last five months and resulted in increased pensions, but did not achieve a central demand of equal union control of the company pension plan.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskvA3joq
Photo by Paul Schmick. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.