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“Look for the union label!” Remember that little ditty on TV that promoted consumption of union-made goods and products? It’s good advice, whether you’re purchasing a car or appliance, clothing, food or drinks. Consumers have tremendous power to affect the common good by focusing their buying habits on union-made, union-grown, union-marketed products. Employers will eventually become more favorable to unionization when they see their unionized competition is gaining on them owing to popular favor.
Maybe the same principle can be applied to organizations that solicit our financial support healthcare institutions and advocacy groups, human rights, arts, environmental, religious, gun control, voting rights, etc.
“It’s heartbreaking that all of these deaths could have been prevented. We are one and a half years into this pandemic and we still have nurses dying,” said Zenei Cortez with the California Nurses Association.
As nurses were sitting socially distanced in their cars, listening to the names of their colleagues who passed away from the virus.
Similar demonstrations were taking place all over the country. In Washington D.C., hundreds of shoes were placed near the white house.
The nurses’ union are demanding that the Biden administration implement safety measures for hospital workers on the front lines.
“We need tools and we continue to fight for them and nurses continue to die,” said Jean Ross, the president of the National Nurses Union.
Disneyland has reopened in Anaheim, cruise lines are announcing sailing dates by midsummer, and more doors at venues are swinging open now that over 100 million Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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