Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week’s show: The 1969 Charleston hospital workers' strike, and “Reconsidering Southern Labor History." After the Western Federation of Miners' attempts to obtain better pay for their members working in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine failed, the union planned a demonstration in protest. The protest got out of hand and a train laden with explosives was hijacked and diverted to the mill where it was detonated, destroying the mill entirely. - 1899 InterMountain Histories; read more here. Labor history courtesy Today In Labor History. click here for latest listings Union City Radio: 7:15a; WPFW-FM 89.3 The Corporate Coup D’État (film): Fri, April 26, 6:15pm & Sat, April 27, 8:30pm Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St NW, Washington, DC 20004 Part of Filmfest DC: Buy tickets here In Person: Director Fred Peabody, Executive Producer Jeff Cohen and The Intercept investigative journalist Lee Fang UPCOMING Townhall: DC Healthcare Crisis: Sat, April 27, 2pm – 4pm UMC United Medical Center 1310 Southern Ave SE, Washington, District of Columbia 20032 RSVP on Facebook here Citing a “consistent disregard for safety principles,” the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health has named Johns Hopkins Hospital to the “2019 Dirty Dozen List of Employers Who Put Workers and Communities at Risk.”The list is published each year to mark Workers’ Memorial Week, observed around the world, honoring those who have been injured, suffered illnesses or lost their lives at work. “We hope Johns Hopkins takes landing a spot on the Dirty Dozen list this year as a wake up call to listen to nurses and address the conditions we flag as unsafe for patients and healthcare workers,” said Alex Laslett, RN, a member of National Nurses United. “We want Hopkins to operate the hospital in a manner that supports quality patient care. We’ve called on the hospital to rectify chronic short staffing and high turnover, discontinue dangerous rotating shift schedules, implement safe patient handling, provide protective gear and adequate equipment and take proactive steps to prevent workplace violence.” Registered nurses at Hopkins began organizing a union at the hospital after repeated appeals to the hospital to resolve unsafe conditions went unanswered, but management has responded by spending millions of dollars on anti-union consultants. Snapshots from Thursday’s rally to “Fund Our Schools, Fund Our Future,” organized by the Washington Teachers Union, with turnout from DC parents, students, community allies and other unions. photos by Chris Garlock
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