“I urge you to act now to keep Providence Hospital open,” RN Elissa Curry told the DC City Council Wednesday morning.
“The health of our community should not be endangered because accountants see more lucrative ways to operate,” Curry added. Patients, nurses, caregivers and doctors packed the council meeting to testify about the need to save Providence Hospital in northeast DC. “You won’t shut us down!” they vowed. In his opening statement at the hearing, Ward 5 councilmember Kenyan McDuffie said that "It appears that Ascension has decided to prioritize its property over the provision of health to the residents of the District of Columbia." McDuffie announced that he and Ward 7 councilmember Vincent Gray are considering legislation to require hospitals to provide advance public notice if they want to close down. On today’s labor calendar, there’s a Labor Book Symposium on “Not Enough, Human Rights in an Unequal World,” at 1pm at the Georgetown University Law Center; The NoVA Coalition of Labor Union Women hosts a Happy Hour at 6:30 tonight in Annandale; and the film GHOST FLEET – which investigates the hidden population of modern-day slaves who underpin industrial fishing – screens at 8:30 tonight at the Naval Heritage Center; as always, for complete details, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1933, some 2,000 workers demanding union recognition closed down dress manufacturing in Los Angeles. Today’s labor quote is from a plaque on the Mother Jones monument in Mount Olive, Illinois, dedicated on this date in 1936, which reads: “We count it death to falter, not to die.”
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