Interview with Phyllis Cummins, June 2, 1987
Project: Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Cummins talks about her duties as an aide at Pikeville Methodist Hospital starting in 1971 that expanded beyond the typical duties of a nurse aide. Cummins discusses her status as an outsider until she joined the unionization effort in the hospital. She also talks about the opposition within the hospital to the strike. Cummins discusses the broader issues, like pensions, that precipitated the strike. She talks about the first day of the strike and her duties. She also talks about her expectations and feelings about the strike. She also talks about how she had to cross the picket line for a medical emergency. Cummins talks about the strike benefits from CWA as well as the state of her family during the strike. Cummins discusses her thoughts about the strike, including critiques of the union's strategy.Interview Accession
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Women in the labor movement Hospital care--United States. Salaries Hospital and community. Nursing. Medical care--Kentucky Picketing. Strikes and lockouts--Kentucky United Mine Workers of America Strikebreakers United Methodist Church Occupations Communications Workers of AmericaInterview Rights
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Cummins, Phyllis Interview by Sally Ward Maggard. 02 Jun. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Cummins, P. (1987, June 02). Interview by S. W. Maggard. Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Cummins, Phyllis, interview by Sally Ward Maggard. June 02, 1987, Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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