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Monday, March 03, 2003 |
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Twin City hospital workers, community allies and public officials will picket Abbott-Northwestern Hospital. Rising insurance costs, on average double what CEOs and managers pay for family coverage, have put health care out of reach, forcing many to drop coverage.
WHAT: Informational Pickets start. 5,900 employees represented by SEIU Local 113, whose contract expired February 28th, are asking Twin City hospitals to do their part to make health care affordable.
WHEN: March 4, 2:30 – 3:30 PM
WHERE: Abbott-Northwestern Hospital - 800 East 28th Street, Minneapolis
WHY: All workers need access to quality, affordable health care – and health care workers are no exception. Twin City hospital workers are struggling to afford health coverage and many are forced to go without any health insurance at all. Some workers rely on MinnesotaCare or Medical Assistance for basic coverage for their children.
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WHO: Local 113 of the Service Employees International Union represents almost 14,000 healthcare workers in Minnesota. About 5,900 work in Twin City hospital facilities. SEIU is the 4th largest union in Minnesota with 27,000 members and the largest union in the AFL-CIO with over 1.5 million members.
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stormy petrel: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. stormy petrel [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Monday March 3, 2003
stormy petrel STOR-mee-PET-ruhl, noun:
1. Any of various small sea birds of the family Hydrobatidae, having dark plumage with paler underparts; also called storm petrel.
2. One who brings discord or strife, or appears at the onset of trouble.
But far from a 'pet' of the Communist regime, Gorky, the "stormy petrel of the revolution," also condemned the revolution early on as a "cruel experiment" with the Russian people "doomed to failure."
--Valentina Kolesnikova, "Maxim Gorky: Hostage of the Revolution," Russian Life, June 1, 1996
Of the unpredictable and constantly angry Paracelsus, for example, the stormy petrel who convulsed the staid medical establishment of the sixteenth century by demanding radical reforms in clinical thinking, he wrote: "This first great revolt against the slavish authority of the schools had little immediate effect, largely on account of the personal vagaries of the reformer--but it made men think."
--Sherwin B. Nuland, "The Saint," New Republic, December 13, 1999
Lenin, the stormy petrel of the Social Democratic party, was facing more serious opposition than ever.
--Michael Pearson, "Lenin's lieutenant," Guardian, September 29, 2001
. . . restless and indomitable, scouring like a stormy petrel the angry ocean of debate.
--Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians
Stormy petrel is an alteration of earlier pitteral, probably so named in allusion to St. Peter's walking on the sea, from the fact that the bird flies close to the water in order to feed on surface-swimming organisms and ship's refuse; called stormy because in a storm the birds surround a ship to catch small organisms which rise to the surface of the rough seas; when the storm ceases they are no longer seen.
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