“Really it comes down to respect and dignity for our workers, our long-term workers. Many of them, the vast majority who are women, the vast majority who are women of color. And we have tried to engage management time and again,” DCNA-NNU executive director Edward Smith said in a report published yesterday in the AFL-CIO’s Daily Brief newsletter. Members of the District of Columbia Nurses Association-NNU (DCNA-NNU) held a one-day strike earlier this month to demand a fair contract from their employer, Howard University Hospital. Despite months of bargaining for a successor agreement, management has so far refused to offer adequate pay and safe staffing levels that these health care workers and their patients deserve. Following the strike, the union remains optimistic that management will return to the bargaining table. Tell Howard University Hospital to give DCNA-NNU members the respect they and their patients deserve. Comments are closed.
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