Takoma Park, Md., touts progressive values. What happens when city workers push for higher wages?
with a habit of getting arrested at protests — Takoma has evolved in recent decades into an affluent community of 17,000, where the median household income is $84,000, and more than half of residents own their homes.
“I just have no idea where the money is going to come from,” Shapiro said at the union meeting, waving the invoice from the storage company in his hand. “At a certain point, this starts to impinge on your dignity.” Surrounded by other public works employees, McWatt asked whether a protest or a rally was possible, even if a strike wasn’t. He was willing to spend his lunch hour picketing outside the city council building, he said. Others around him murmured in agreement. They fixed roads, repaired street signs and plowed snow. Even before the pandemic, they hadn’t felt fairly compensated.
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