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After years of negotiations, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has refused to support a new contract and pay raises to registered nurses at United Medical Center, reports the DC Nurses Association.
Despite orders by an arbitrator to provide salary increases and to allow a forum for DCNA nurses to have input over the number of RNs per patient at UMC, the mayor has not submitted the contract to the DC Council and the District recently informed DCNA that it will not certify the funds for the nurses. Nurses at UMC are severely underpaid and must care for too many patients, the union says, creating dangerous and unsafe nurse-patient ratios. In late September, frustrated DCNA members voted “no-confidence” in the UMC leadership, including CEO Luis Hernandez, who has since been removed. On today's labor calendar, the News Guild will picket the Washington Post at 12:30 over management's refusal to bargain fairly; details at dclabor.org, click on calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1903, the Women’s Trade Union League was founded in Boston. Today’s labor quote is by Rose Schneiderman, a member of the Women's Trade Union League who said: "What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist." If right-wing political donor Joe Ricketts intended to intimidate union organizers when he abruptly shut down two news sites he owns, the union representing DC-area news reporters isn't buying it.
"That's just pathetic," said Newspaper Guild Local 32035 president Robert Struckman, while Guild Executive Director Cet Parks said the shutdown "has not chilled any organizing efforts" at the Guild. After employees at online news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist recently voted to join the Writers Guild of America, East, Ricketts abruptly shut down both sites. The Guild is planning a major picket line tomorrow in connection with their ongoing battle for a new contract at The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. On today's labor calendar, "La Pirogue" screens at the Films Across Borders series tonight at 7:15 at the AFI Silver Theatre; details at dclabor.org, click on calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1974, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union activist Karen Silkwood was killed in a suspicious car crash on her way to deliver documents to a newspaper reporter during a safety investigation of her Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma. Today’s labor quote is by Eugene Debs, who said: "The strike is the weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend for principle." Virginia labor celebrated Ralph Northam’s gubernatorial victory Tuesday night, after hundreds of union volunteers knocked on tens of thousands of doors throughout the Commonwealth. “Virginia’s voters turned out in record numbers to stand with working people and reject the hateful, divisive rhetoric that has taken over the airwaves,” said Doris Crouse-Mays, President of the Virginia AFL-CIO. Virginians voted for change by flipping control in at least 15 house districts, including the 31st, where AFSCME member Elizabeth Guzman unseated a long-time incumbent.
On this weekend's labor calendar, the Films Across Borders series continues on Saturday with a screening of "Pelle the Conqueror" at noon at the AFI in Silver Spring; details at dclabor.org, click on calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1933, a sit-down strike began at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Independent Union of All Workers. Labor historians believe this may have been the first sit-down strike of the 1930s. Workers held the plant for three days, demanding a wage increase. Some 400 men crashed through the plant entrance and chased out nonunion workers. Today’s labor quote is by strikers at the Hormel plant in 1933, who rushed through the doors of a conference room where Jay Hormel and five company executives were meeting and declared: “We’re taking possession. So move out.” Within four days the company agreed to binding arbitration. |
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