“In the last several years, we’ve become very-focused on the behavioral health--mental, emotional issues associated with our profession.”
That’s Harold Schaitberger, President of the Fire Fighters, on the latest episode of State of the Unions, the AFL-CIO’s podcast. “Post-traumatic stress is certainly a term that people are more familiar with now but it’s something that has plagued our industry if you will for a number of years. But part of our problem in addressing it was trying to remove the stigma that had been associated with you can't admit you’re troubled. You can't admit you have a silent injury. If you do you’re weak. I don’t want you on my apparatus, you know if you’re showing you know an emotional moment or condition. And we realized you know the ignorance of that number one, because these injuries are not unlike a busted knee or a busted shoulder; they’re just a different aspect of the exposures to what our members deal with on a day-to-day basis and the toll that it takes on them.” Fire Fighters President Harold Schaitberger on the latest episode of State of the Unions, available wherever you listen to podcasts. For the latest labor events listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1938, the CIO miners' union in the Grass Valley area of California struck for higher wages, union recognition, and the 8 hour day. The strike was defeated when vigilantes and law enforcement officials expelled 400 miners and their families from the area. Today’s labor quote is from the labor anthem “Solidarity Forever,” which Ralph Chaplin, an IWW member in Chicago for a demonstration against hunger, finished writing on this date in 1915. He’d begun writing it in 1914 during a miner’s strike in Huntington, West Virginia. When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong. Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. Hey, ring in 2020 with a resolution you can actually keep, and that’s to get life insurance. The Union Plus Life Insurance program can help secure your family’s financial well-being. The unique assistance benefits of Union Plus Life Insurance policies provide extra peace of mind for union families. Visit unionplus.org/lifeinsurance.
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