Danny Glover in Baltimore for health care rally

Baltimore, MD - Actor and activist Danny Glover will join Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake along with healthcare workers from across Baltimore on Thursday, June 24 in a historic Heart of Baltimore Rally for better care, better jobs and a better Baltimore.
Singer Meli'sa Morgan will also take part in the rally.

Healthcare is Baltimore's biggest industry, employing 1-in-5 local workers, so by rallying to improve standards in healthcare the Heart of Baltimore campaign is rallying to improve the economic health of the whole city.

Glover has a long history of union activism and has been arrested in the past.

In April in Gaithersburg, police arrested glover and 11 others during a labor union protest at the Sodexo headquarters.

The actor was found guilty for trespassing at a  Niagara Falls, Canada hotel... during a union rally in 2006 and in 2004, police arrested Glover in the outside the Sudan Embassy in Washington.

The rally is the first major public event of the Heart of Baltimore campaign, the biggest movement of Baltimore healthcare workers since Coretta Scott King came to the city in 1969 and helped thousands of low-paid caregivers form a union.
 

Today, many healthcare workers still make poverty wages. Nurse's aides, the backbone of our healthcare system, are two-and-a-half times more likely to be on food stamps than other Maryland workers.
 

The Heart of Baltimore campaign was launched in October by 1199SEIU, Maryland's largest and fastest growing healthcare union. So far, caregivers and organizers with the campaign have spoken with roughly 4,000 healthcare workers.

This spring the campaign launched a massive ad blitz, reaching nearly 40,000 local residents with direct mail, running more than 300 ads on local radio stations, and posting more than 40 billboards on kiosks at Penn Station and bus shelters across the city.

For more information go to: www.TheHeartOfBaltimore.org