“My patient works as a housekeeper at a Hopkins hospital, and doesn't make enough for rent, food, and medicine. How much do we doctors make again? And the CEO?”
Dr. Zachary Berger is a Baltimore-based doctor, researcher, poet, and translator. Union members, progressives and others rallied in Washington DC on October 2, 2010, under the banner of One Nation Working Together, demand “good jobs, equal justice, and quality education for all.” Crowd estimates range from tens of thousands to 200,000.
“To all the workers out there who are fed up and fired up, we stand in solidarity with you and with every person who wants to exercise their right to organize.” From AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler’s Labor Day video; you can reach the NLRB at 1-844-762-NLRB. “I think it means a lot of opportunity and promise as we move forward, not just for the labor movement, but for workers; workers have the ability to join the union, or organize the union, (which) gives them collective power. And I think that this is an opportunity to seize this moment for resurgence in the labor moment.”
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, on last week's Your Rights At Work radio show, commenting on what the 71% union approval ratings (per Gallup in the Sept 2022 poll) means. |