Happy Valentine’s Day! This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
National Nurses United has filed another charge against Johns Hopkins Hospital, saying the hospital retaliated against a nurse after she led a delegation of African American nurses to meet with management. In January, the National Labor Relations Board decided to move forward with an earlier complaint against the hospital citing numerous alleged labor violations. A hearing is currently set for March 6 in Baltimore on those charges. “It’s wrong that rather than listening to nurses, Hopkins has maintained a culture of silence and retaliated against nurses when we try to advocate for our patients,” said RN Vivian Obijekwu. “As frontline caregivers, we know intimately what our patients need. When the hospital silences nurses, they are essentially silencing our patients.” On today’s labor calendar, tune in at 1 this afternoon for this week’s edition of Your Rights at Work, when we’ll take your calls, plus guests on the latest labor news. That’s Your Rights at Work at 1pm today, here on WPFW. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1903, the Western Federation of Miners struck for the 8-hour day. Today’s labor quote is by William Sylvis, the pioneering American trade union leader who first advocated for the creation of a Department of Labor back in the 1860’s. He protested that existing government departments threw their protective arms around every enterprise fostering wealth, while no department had as its quote "sole object the care and protection of labor," unquote. It was on this date in 1903, that President Theodore Roosevelt created the Department of Commerce and Labor, which was was divided into two separate departments ten years later. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you paying too much for auto insurance? Compare quotes with the Union Plus Auto Insurance Program. Visit unionplus.org/auto to get started.
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This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
Pro-worker legislation, including equal pay for equal work and an updated stronger version of the Employee Free Choice Act, are part of the progressive platform lawmakers will try to push through the Democratic-run House in the 116th Congress. Lawmakers got a head start on that platform with two House Education and Labor Committee hearings this week. Teachers union president Randi Weingarten and other witnesses discussed crumbling classrooms and underpaid teachers and staff on Tuesday and then on Wednesday, the panel got down to work on the Workplace Fairness Act, designed to put teeth into the equal-pay-for-equal-work law. Of course, with Republicans in control of the Senate and the White House, these measures probably won’t get far, but they set the stage for the elections next year. On today’s labor calendar, I’ll be hosting Arise this morning at 9am, when my guests will be Robyn Leigh Muncy, on “The Strange Career of “the Working Class” in US Political Culture Since the 1950s” and Paul Buhle on his new book “Eugene Debs: A Graphic Biography.” In today’s labor history, on this date in 1934, U.S. legislators passed the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, providing funds for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which funneled money to states plagued by Depression-era poverty and unemployment, and oversaw the subsequent distribution and relief efforts. Wouldn’t it be cool if today’s Congress could come together on something like this to put people to work? Just sayin’ Today’s labor quote is by Susan B. Anthony, the suffragist, abolitionist, and labor activist born on this date in 1820, who said: "Join the union, girls, and together say: Equal Pay for Equal Work!" Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you paying too much for auto insurance? Compare quotes with the Union Plus Auto Insurance Program. Visit unionplus.org/auto to get started. Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM
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(audio) “A lot of things that people my age are dealing with now is economic and societal alienation.” That’s Kooper Caraway, President of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO, on the latest episode of the AFL-CIO’s ‘State of the Unions’ podcast. (audio) And so people feel this alienation from being separated from the rest of the community. So many of our cultures are based off of the individual and so they feel alone. You see a lot of folks are dealing with mental health problems and they don’t feel like they’re part of anything, part of any greater plan, part of any greater society or culture. And so, that leads to all kinds of problems within society and the culture. But my experience seeing a situation in which you have a small area concentrated where most folks are part of a union, most folks are engaged in the same struggle, most folks know they’re all in it together at the end of the day, that does things for a community and for a neighborhood that are very difficult to measure but you can see it and you can feel it. When I saw that and when I read more and educated myself later on after my grandfather passed, I knew I wanted to create that all over the country.” Subscribe to "State of the Unions" anywhere you listen to podcasts. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1865, a national eight-month strike by the Sons of Vulcan, a union of iron forgers, ended in victory when employers agreed to a wage scale based on the price of iron bars—the first time employers recognized the union, the first union contract in the iron and steel industry, and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States. Today’s labor quote is by Lowell Peterson, describing the three-month strike by 12,000 Hollywood writers against television and motion picture studios, which ended on this date in 2008. Lowell Peterson, executive director of the Writers Guild of America East, who called the strike “The first major labor action of the digital age.” The writers won compensation for their TV and movie work that gets streamed on the Internet. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Are you paying too much for auto insurance? Compare quotes with the Union Plus Auto Insurance Program. Visit unionplus.org/auto to get started. |
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