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Blacks, Unions, & Organizing in the South, 1956-1996

A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY

Compiled by Rudolph Lewis
 

 

1199 WINS!!

Monthly Organizing Report

 

August 1969

August 22 Lutheran Hospital. Baltimore, Maryland. Hospital & Nursing Home Employees, Local 1199. For the Union 174; Against, 99; Challenged, 14. Election run by Maryland Dept. of Labor & Industry. Total eligible, 301. Worker contracts and meetings. Regional Participation. Advice & Counsel part-time.

August 28 and 29. Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, Maryland. Hospital & Nursing Home Employees, Local 1199. For the Union , 807; Against 460; Challenged 59; Void 1. Election run by Maryland Dept. of Labor and Industry. Eligible, 1455. Regional participation: Part-time worker contracts; spoke at meetings; advice and counsel.

Above: Fred A. Punch, First lead organizer, and then , president of Local 1199E, Hospital and Nursing Home Employees Union, AFL-CIO

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posted 24 July 2008

 

 

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