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Temporary victory for workers at Western Maryland Hospital Center

Big turnout expected for Saturday State Fed Labor to Labor Walk

Hotel worker travel tips

Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

 

Today's Labor Calendar

[link removed] Click here for the complete calendar and details, including all DMV-area Labor-to-Labor GOTV activities. Got something to add or update? Email us at [email protected].

Union City Radio: Fri, October 14, 7:15am - 7:20am

WPFW-FM 89.3 FM ([link removed] map)

Brief audio version of the Metro Washington Labor Council's Union City newsletter.

NoVA Labor Walks: Sat, October 15, 9am - 1pm

4536 John Marr Dr, Annandale, VA 22003, USA ([link removed] map)

INFO: Bob Zabel at mailto:[email protected] [email protected] or call 317-489-2501

Maryland Labor to Labor Walk: Sat, October 15, 9:30am - 2:00pm

700 Aliceanna St. Baltimore, MD 21202 ([link removed] map)

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Baltimore Weekend Warriors (1199SEIU) Labor Canvass (Baltimore)

Sat, October 15, 10am - 2pm

1199SEIU Union Hall, 611 N Eutaw St, Baltimore, MD 21201
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Baltimore Weekend Warriors (1199SEIU) Labor Canvass (Largo): Sat, October 15, 10am - 2pm
AFSCME Council 67 Union Hall, 1400 Mercantile Ln Ste 188, Largo, MD 20774
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Temporary victory for workers at Western Maryland Hospital Center

The Hogan administration last Wednesday [link removed] withdrew an emergency procurement item from the Board of Public Works agenda that would have privatized certain health care services now taking place at the state-owned Western Maryland Hospital Center ([link removed] AFSCME MD fights to save Western Maryland Hospital Center). "But like any good zombie, it can come back from the dead," responded AFSCME Maryland. "We will remain vigilant in order to keep healthcare options available to Marylanders." Maryland Health Secretary Dennis Schrader told the Board of Public Works members that the state would seek a more conventional arrangement to provide health care services in Western Maryland later in the fall. Schrader said the administration decided to change course after public criticism of the proposed contracts and private reservations from Comptroller Peter Franchot (D), one of three members on the BPW.

- Adapted from a report in [link removed] Maryland Matters

Big turnout expected for Saturday State Fed Labor to Labor Walk

Saturday's Maryland Labor to Labor Walk will be fueled by attendees of the Maryland State/DC AFL-CIO's convention, who will take their support for labor-endorsed candidates to the door in the Baltimore area. The walk begins at 9:30a Saturday at 700 Aliceanna Street in Baltimore; [link removed] Info/RSVP here. photo: late-September labor-to-labor canvass, via [link removed] MD State/DC Twitter feed


Hotel worker travel tips

With more of us traveling again, the hotel workers union reminds us that "Rooms that have gone days without cleaning are much dirtier and harder on us to clean - so opting in for daily housekeeping makes our job easier!" Here are [link removed] eight travel tips UNITE HERE shared.

Labor Quote: Dr. Zachary Berger

"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?"

[link removed] Dr. Zachary Berger is a Baltimore-based doctor, researcher, poet, and translator.

Weekend 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.

October 14
International Working People's Association founded in Pittsburgh, Penn. - 1883

October 15

Pres. Woodrow Wilson signs the Clayton Antitrust Act - often referred to as "Labor's Magna Carta" - establishing that unions are not "conspiracies" under the law. It for the first time freed unions to strike, picket and boycott employers. In the years that followed, however, numerous state measures and negative court interpretations weakened the law - 1914

October 16
Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men, including five free blacks, in an attack on the Harper's Ferry ammunition depot, the beginning of guerilla warfare against slavery - 1859

- David Prosten

 

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