This is Chris Garlock, with the latest labor news, updates and history from the Metro Washington Labor Council.
Registered nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital earlier this week welcomed the decision by the National Labor Relations Board to move forward with a complaint against the hospital citing numerous alleged labor violations. “By moving this complaint forward the NLRB is sending a message to Johns Hopkins that they cannot disregard nurses’ right to organize,” said Oncology RN Kim Henriquez, a member of National Nurses United. “We want Johns Hopkins Hospital to live up to its reputation for quality care. To do that, they must listen to the bedside nurses, and stop wasting millions of dollars on anti union consultants.” The NLRB’s regional office has scheduled a hearing in Baltimore on March 6. On today’s labor calendar, activity to end the government shutdown continues at the Hart Senate Office Building; check our website at dclabor.org for details; click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1915, the Supreme Court upheld “Yellow Dog” employment contracts, which forbid membership in labor unions. Yellow Dog contracts remained legal until 1932. Today’s labor quote is by the editor of the United Mine Workers' Journal, writing in 1921, when the term “yellow dog contract” first appeared: “This agreement has been well named. It is yellow dog for sure. It reduces to the level of a yellow dog any man that signs it, for he signs away every right he possesses under the Constitution and laws of the land and makes himself the truckling, helpless slave of the employer.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. To learn more about how Union Plus is helping federal workers impacted by the government shutdown and to apply for assistance, visit unionplus.org.
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