Some nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital are working to form a union, claiming overwork and low pay contribute to high turnover — a situation ICU nurse Kate Phillips describes as “unsafe.” “When we don’t have a voice or a way to stand up to the administration, they can basically make all the decisions and they don’t look at things from the perspective of patient care like we do,” added Phillips. The nurses, who reached out to National Nurses United for help, need a majority of the hospital’s 3,200 nurses to sign cards in order to hold a union vote.
On today’s labor calendar, the Metropolitan Washington Council’s, Prince George’s and Montgomery County Committee on Political Education meet this morning starting at 9am for primary election candidate interviews; complete details, as always, on our website, dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1868, San Francisco brewery workers began a 9-month strike as local employers followed the union-busting lead of the National Brewer’s Association and fired their unionized workers, replacing them with scabs. Two unionized brewers refused to go along, kept producing beer, prospered wildly and induced the Association to capitulate. One contract benefit since having unionized two years earlier, and certainly worth defending, was free beer for the workers. Today’s labor quote is by Martin Luther King Jr., who said: “We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org!
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