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AFSCME MD fights to save Western Maryland Hospital Center

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AFSCME MD fights to save Western Maryland Hospital Center

Union members and advocates on Monday called on the Board of Public Works to deny the state health department permission to approve vendors and execute two private health care contracts on their own. Privatizing health care services for the Western Maryland Hospital Center in Hagerstown would effectively eradicate services for people who can't afford to get health care elsewhere, critics of the contracts said. Without the regional center, those patients would likely have to seek care far away from their families and support systems. Democratic politicians, union leaders and members of the Maryland American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 3 and the Maryland American Federation of Teachers said the Hogan administration's attempt to close the hospital in 2016 and more recent documented plans to close it for good have caused nursing staff to flee to nearby hospitals. "They're producing the hysteria and the staffing shortage themselves," said AFSCME Maryland President Patrick Moran. "It's not happening as a result of people not willing to come there."

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Worker Rights Lawyers from Across the Globe Meet

More than 140 labor lawyers from 42 countries gathered in Brussels last week for the second global conference of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network, where they exchanged legal strategies for the promotion and defense of the rights and interests of workers and trade unions, explored coalitions with allies in the feminist, environmental and human rights movements and planned the network's strategic goals for the next two years. "ILAW lawyers proactively represent workers and unions and are a key part of workers' struggles for rights, dignity and justice on the job," said Solidarity Center Rule of Law Director and ILAW Network Chair Jeffrey Vogt. [link removed] Find out more at Solidarity Center.


Labor Quote: Barack Obama

"Politics didn't lead me to working folks; working folks led me to politics."

Today's Labor History

This week's Labor History Today podcast: [link removed] Sharecroppers' struggles for rights and power. Last week's show: [link removed] Socialist fairy tales.

The Miners' National Association is formed in Youngstown, Ohio, with the goal of uniting all miners, regardless of skill or ethnic background - 1873

Nearly 1,500 plantation workers strike Olaa Sugar, on Hawaii's Big Island - 1948

 

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