Joan Earle Interview

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So Joan tell me a little -- how long you've been a nurse and where you got your training?

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle disscusses why she became a nurse, how they organized a nurse union, and why it was necessary to do so.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Nurses; Nurses--Labor unions; Nursing education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So prior to this law getting enacted you had abosultley no right to collective bargaining what so ever?

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle discusses the impact collective bargaining had her career as nurse.

Subjects: Collective bargaining--Nursing

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now how many people do you bring to 1199?

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle discusses joining 1199 and how that brought her into contact with many other healthcare professionals in the State of Ohio.

Subjects: Nurses--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Did you join for the money?

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle discusses the motivations behind organizing the nurses and joining a union.

Subjects: Nurses--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Were you taught that you were not part of the working class or you were part of the working class?

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle talks about how joining the union brought out her working class consciousness

Subjects: Working class women

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Would you have believed that you Joan Earle, could strike the state of Ohio?

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle discusses nurses going out on strike in Ohio.

Subjects: Strikes and lockouts--Nursing

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So I understand you were telling me, you were in the midst of an organizing campaign as we speak.

Segment Synopsis: Joan Earle discusses an organizing campaign she's involved in, how she became an organizer.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Nurses--Labor unions