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An Open Letter to Striking Nurses at RWJ University Hospital… — Work-Bites
By Timothy Sheard Dear nursing sisters and brothers, You have to be tender and tough if you are going to stay in the nursing profession for very long. Tender, because our patients are so vulnerable. So at risk of injury and death. So afraid. And tough, because the work is so demanding, the bosses so disrespectful, and the pain of losing a patient so deep. We comfort our patients and their families in so many little ways that they don’t even know we have done it.
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Editor’s Note: Tim Sheard is the founder of Work-Bites’ publishing partner Hard Ball and Little Heroes Press. We’re happy to share this little vignette of old-time New York City with you. Have a great work week! My dad was a New York City newspaper reporter in the 1940's and 50's. On most mornings, he and his fellow reporters would clock in at work, and then go to the pub to start drinking.
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An Open Letter To Young Union Organizers — Work-Bites
Young union leaders bringing the fight to the bosses at Starbucks, Amazon, Chipotle, REI and other bastions of corporate power across the country are inspiring millions and breathing new fire into the labor movement. They’re meeting in parks and pubs, in backyards and union halls, highlighting the many benefits that come with unionizing: better pay, job security, reasonable shift allocation, health benefits —and most important of all — respect on the job.
In ‘One Foot In the Grave’ Working-Class Heroes Fight Zika
Photo: Piron Guillaume. Nicholas Powers Aug 16 Issue 249 A working-class hero is something to be,” sang John Lennon, author and activist, Timothy Sheard proves him right in One Foot in the Grave, his 18th in the Lenny Moss mystery series. The novel delves into the struggle between labor and management over work safety as a new Zika virus threatens lives. Sheards channels real working-class sensibility and the plot moves like a jet.
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