Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO

TODAY'S LABOR CALENDAR

4/26/2019

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Union City Radio: 7:15a; WPFW-FM 89.3

The Corporate Coup D’État (film): Fri, April 26, 6:15pm & Sat, April 27, 8:30pm
Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20004
Part of Filmfest DC: Buy tickets here
In Person: Director Fred Peabody, Executive Producer Jeff Cohen and The Intercept investigative journalist Lee Fang

UPCOMING
Townhall: DC Healthcare Crisis: Sat, April 27, 2pm – 4pm
UMC United Medical Center 1310 Southern Ave SE, Washington, District of Columbia 20032
RSVP on Facebook here

Johns Hopkins Hospital named to “2019 Dirty Dozen” list

4/26/2019

Citing a “consistent disregard for safety principles,” the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health has named Johns Hopkins Hospital to the “2019 Dirty Dozen List of Employers Who Put Workers and Communities at Risk.”The list is published each year to mark Workers’ Memorial Week, observed around the world, honoring those who have been injured, suffered illnesses or lost their lives at work. “We hope Johns Hopkins takes landing a spot on the Dirty Dozen list this year as a wake up call to listen to nurses and address the conditions we flag as unsafe for patients and healthcare workers,” said Alex Laslett, RN, a member of National Nurses United. “We want Hopkins to operate the hospital in a manner that supports quality patient care. We’ve called on the hospital to rectify chronic short staffing and high turnover, discontinue dangerous rotating shift schedules, implement safe patient handling, provide protective gear and adequate equipment and take proactive steps to prevent workplace violence.” Registered nurses at Hopkins began organizing a union at the hospital after repeated appeals to the hospital to resolve unsafe conditions went unanswered, but management has responded by spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants.

WTU’s Liz Davis: “This is not the end, this is the beginning of this movement!”

4/26/2019

Snapshots from Thursday’s rally to “Fund Our Schools, Fund Our Future,” organized by the Washington Teachers Union, with turnout from DC parents, students, community allies and other unions. photos by Chris Garlock

Today’s Labor Quote: “Bread and Roses”

4/26/2019

From the poem by James Oppenheim, published in the IWW newspaper Industrial Solidarity on April 27, 1911, and performed here by Queen Cee:

As we go marching, marching
We bring the greater days
For the rising of the women
Means the rising of the race
No more the drudge and idler
Ten that toil where one reposes
But the sharing of life's glories
Bread and roses, bread and roses

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