Washington, D.C. transit workers forced to vote on “memorandum of understanding” instead of contract

Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Agency (Metro) Red Line, January 2021. [Photo by Han Zheng / CC BY-SA 2.0]On Tuesday, August 20, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) management and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689 forced the the system’s nearly 8,500 workers to vote on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) document in place of…