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Profits Over Patients · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  one of the dynamic shifts that I've seen throughout my profession is
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  the prioritization more towards profits and we're steering away
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  more from patient-centered care
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Tuesday, March 3rd.
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  and that's concerning to us as, as nurses in a collective.
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  We are 31,000 strong and we are setting the precedent.
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  We have to stand firm and draw the line.
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  That's from the Riverside Rank and File Podcast on the
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  Labor Radio podcast network.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1906, the local Lumber workers
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  union in Humboldt County, California founded the Union Labor Hospital
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  Association to establish a hospital for union workers in the county.
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  The hospital became an important community facility that was financed
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  and run by the local labor movement.
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  Today's labor quote is by William Green, born on this date in 1873 in Kachin, Ohio.
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  Green was a coal miner who succeeded Samuel GOPer as president of the
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  American Federation of Labor, serving from 1924 until his death in 1952.
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  William Green, who said as Labor is free, so all are free.
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  The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is supported by our friends at Union Plus,
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.