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Hundreds rally demanding Johns Hopkins end medical debt lawsuits and respect RN organizing rights

Support airline catering workers tomorrow

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Hundreds rally demanding Johns Hopkins end medical debt lawsuits and respect RN organizing rights

Nurses were joined by hundreds of labor and community activists outside Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, demanding hospital officials end their deplorable practice of suing low-income community patients and their families for medical debt. They also called on officials to respect the rights of its RNs to form a union.

"Nurses are the most trusted public servants in our nation. Year after year, they treat the sick and comfort the families. They deserve a full, equal voice on the job--the type of voice that can only be achieved by coming together in a union," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. "We know it won't be easy. Johns Hopkins is spending millions of dollars to prevent nurses from having a voice. But we know that no corporation or institution is stronger than a committed group of working people willing to risk everything for each other. And when that group of people happens to be nurses, you better believe we are going to win."

Since 2009, Johns Hopkins Hospital has [link removed] filed more than 2,400 lawsuits in Maryland courts seeking payment of alleged medical debt from former patients. In more than 400 cases, the hospital has won garnishments of wages or bank accounts.

Support airline catering workers tomorrow
American Airlines, Delta, and United made over $50 billion in combined profits in just the past 5 years alone, but the workers who prepare and load food and beverages onto their planes are often left living in poverty and unable to afford healthcare. In June, thousands of airline catering workers voted to authorize strikes when released by the government. Supporters will rally in solidarity with these airline catering workers tomorrow at National Airport (DCA) beginning at 4:30 PM at Terminal B South Terrace. Nationally, the majority of the food workers serving these airlines still earn less than $15 per hour - including some with 30, 40, even 50 years of service. Meanwhile, family health insurance premiums are over $500 per month for these employees, leaving many with an impossible choice between their health and their bills.

Today's Labor Quote: Heywood Broun
"All there is said for work as opposed to dancing is that it's so much easier."
Broun was a journalist, columnist and first president of the American Newspaper Guild.

Today's Labor History

Why SF wants to "Paint It Black" [link removed] Click here to check out the latest Labor History Today podcast. On this week's show: Robert Cherney on the genesis of the San Francisco Board of Education's decision to paint over New Deal murals. Eleanor Mahoney's new feature on labor landmarks.

Radio station WCFL, owned and operated by the Chicago Federation of Labor, takes to the airwaves with two hours of music. The first and only labor-owned radio station in the country, WCFL was sold in 1979 - 1926

IWW leads a strike at Hodgeman's Blueberry Farm in Grand Junction, Mich. - 1964

A die-cast operator in Jackson, Mich. is pinned by a hydraulic Unimate robot, dies five days later. Incident is the first documented case in the U.S. of a robot killing a human - 1984

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