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400,000 say "U.S. Mail Not For Sale!"

Nurses "most trusted" for 18th consecutive year

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400,000 say "U.S. Mail Not For Sale!"
"My job is simple," said APWU president Mark Dimondstein at Monday's rally to save the postal service. "Go inside and take the voices of more than 400,000 people who signed this petition with me...to demand a PUBLIC Postal Service for generations to come!" AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said that "We all know what privatization means. It means they'll cut your wages, your healthcare, your pensions. They'll cut service to regular people. All for corporate profit!" And the National Postal Mailhandlers Union's Paul Hogrogian said that "We need a Postmaster General who will keep the SERVICE in Postal Service!"

Nurses "most trusted" for 18th consecutive year
Nurses topped the 2019 Gallup Poll's annual ranking of how Americans view 22 major professions with 85% of the public, four in five Americans, rating their honesty and ethical standards as "high" or "very high." Nurses have ranked first for 18 consecutive years. "We are honored by this poll and what it reflects - that our patients, their families and the public know that they can trust and count on nurses to stand up for them," said National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN. "This year's results have special meaning for us as we move into 2020, which the World Health Organization has declared the `Year of the Nurse and Midwife.'" "The public can count on nurses to stand up, show up, and speak up until the broken U.S. healthcare system is profoundly transformed," said RN and NNU President Jean Ross, who testified at a recent congressional hearing. "We will not settle for band aid-fixes. We want the real deal, comprehensive medical care for all, regardless of ability to pay."

Today's Labor Quote: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan

"I refused to do a man's job without a man's pay."

O'Sullivan, the first female organizer for the American Federation of Labor, was born on this date in 1864. She organized the Woman's Bookbinder Union and was a founder of the National Women's Trade Union League.
photo: Leaders of the Women's Trade Union in 1907. Shown from left to right are Hannah Hennessy, Ida Rauh, Mary Dreir, Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Margaret Robins, Margie Jones, Agnes Nestor and Helen Marot.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: A very unusual strike
On today's show, originally released January 6, 2019, we talk with historian Erik Loomis about frustrated workers in a very unusual place who decided to strike in a very unusual way.
Last week's show: (12/29): [link removed] 100 years of the ILO

The AFL Iron and Steel Organizing Committee ends the "Great Steel Strike." Some 350,000 to 400,000 steelworkers had been striking for more than three months, demanding union recognition. The strike failed - 1920

Hiring Hall

Administrative
[link removed] Special Assistant - Executive Office, SEIU (Posted: 12/17/2019)

Communications
[link removed] Director of Speechwriting and Publications - Communications, AFL-CIO (Posted: 12/27/2019) District of Columbia
[link removed] Internal Communications Specialist - Communications, AFL-CIO (Posted: 12/18/2019) District of Columbia
[link removed] Data and Digital Strategist, IUOE (Posted: 12/18/2019)

Misc

[link removed] Federal Sector Staff Representative, AFSCME District Council 20 (posted 1/7)

[link removed] Director of Human Resources - Human Resources Department, AFGE (Posted: 12/18/2019) District of Columbia
[link removed] Union Staff, NNU (Posted: 1/6/2020)
[link removed] Staff Accountant, NPMHU (National Postal Mail Handlers Union - a Division of LIUNA) (Posted: 12/30/2019)
[link removed] Deputy Department Director - Communications, SEIU (Posted: 12/18/2019)

Political
[link removed] Legislative Advocate, NNU (Posted: 1/6/2020)
[link removed] Policy Analyst, TTD (Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO) (Posted: 1/6/2020)

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