Nearly a thousand Registered Nurses in West Virginia now have the ability to negotiate for safe staffing and improved patient care at Cabell Huntington Hospital after voting to organize with SEIU 1199. It’s one of the biggest organizing victories since West Virginia became a Right-to-Work state, and 1199 said that “nurses are sending a resounding message to working people across West Virginia that forming a union is the best way to shift the balance of power away from corporations and toward the people.”
On today’s labor calendar, striking bus drivers continue to picket in Lorton. At 10:30 this morning, there’s a Capitol Hill Rally for Justice for Mexican unionists murdered during NAFTA renegotiations, and tonight at 6 there’s a program at the Takoma Busboys and Poets on the Greensboro Massacre: 40 Years Later, featuring a short film about the massacre and a panel discussion with survivors of the massacre. For complete details go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1888, the time clock was invented by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York. There’s no record of the first time a frustrated worker punched out a time clock. Today’s labor quote is by Norman Thomas, the American socialist leader born on this date in 1884. Norman Thomas, who said: “I am not a champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Want to earn $100 just for switching wireless carriers? Then it’s the perfect time to switch to AT&T! For a limited time, union members can get $100 in credits per line when they switch to AT&T – and take advantage of other union-exclusive discounts with the AT&T Signature Program. Visit unionplus.org/att.
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