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Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West is a union of more than 100,000 hospital & clinic workers in California. #United4All
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💜 A message to our Kaiser patients. 💜 Join us in calling on Kaiser executives to bargain in good faith over solutions to the Kaiser short staffing crisis. Share our message with your family, friends, and all Kaiser patients. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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We’re on strike! This morning at 5am, caregivers at @SutterHealth Delta in Antioch walked off the job and onto the strike line. We’re demanding safe staffing, respect, and support from management after being pushed to a breaking point in this pandemic. #SutterDeltaStrike
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🚨BREAKING🚨We just submitted 🪧 picket notices 🪧 to Kaiser management for over 50 locations in five states. ✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼 . Let’s do this! 😼. #united4all #hotunionsummer
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Kaiser Permanente is outsourcing hundreds of jobs, putting patients at risk. But caregivers across California are standing up to protect our patients, our jobs, and our communities. #HealthcareJustice Stop #KaiserGreed
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Breaking news: 📣 Kaiser gardeners to keep their jobs!. We stood firm and fought back against Kaiser outsourcing, and now @aboutKP has done the right thing and committed that the gardeners can keep their jobs permanently. ¡Sí se puede! Yes we can!. #HealthcareJustice
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Governor @GavinNewsom was an early backer of our fight for the $15 minimum wage. The frontrunner against him in the recall election, Larry Elder, thinks the minimum wage should be $0. This recall is about protecting our progress. For workers' rights, #VoteNoOnRecall.
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Federal Gov’t. indicts Kaiser Permanente: “[Kaiser] has failed and refused to bargain in good faith with the Coalition.” @KPShare .@kpthrive .@BernardJTyson .@RamonfBaez .@DrRichardIsaacs .@DrRichardIsaacs .@kpnorcal .@KPSCALnews .@choucair .@JeffEpstein
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After working through a pandemic and facing chronic short staffing, frontline Kaiser healthcare workers are being pushed to the brink. It’s time for Kaiser executives to listen to frontline healthcare workers and fix the short-staffing crisis. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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The frontline healthcare workers of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are excited to have reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente. We are thankful for the instrumental support of Acting US Labor Secretary Julie Su. A full announcement will follow shortly.
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(1/5) THREAD: What’s happening at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch? Around 350 healthcare workers, fed up with unfair labor practices, went on strike. Workers called out @SutterHealth for chronic understaffing, which puts patients at risk. Here’s what you need to know:
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This is HUGE. We’ve sourced 39 MILLION N95 masks for the #healthcareheroes working on the front lines without the right protective equipment. We still need a lot more, but it’s a great start. #GetMePPE
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The largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. history is happening right now! . RT to stand with healthcare workers across the nation. #United4All #SolidaritySeason.@aboutKP @kpthrive
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Day 1. Today, the largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. history begins. Let’s do this! @AboutKP #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Today 83,000 healthcare workers nationwide reached a historic tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente with big wins to ensure Kaiser is the best place to receive and give care. #WeareKaiserWorkers #KeepThriveAlive
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📢 BREAKING! Healthcare workers were just illegally FIRED ❌ days before the holiday for going on STRIKE to protest short-staffing. Tell their employer, Prime Healthcare, to reinstate them now! We got to stick together. We know a GRINCH when we see one! (1/2).#SolidaritySeason.
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Last week, thousands of Kaiser frontline healthcare workers from across the nation united in the largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. history! It’s time for @AboutKP executives to bargain in good faith! #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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During the pandemic, healthcare workers risked everything while hospitals in LA profited billions. Their CEOs got millions in bonuses. Now?.Hospital CEOs are trying to repeal LA’s healthcare minimum wage. Don’t sign their petition. STOP THEIR GREED!.Defend Healthcare Workers!
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Hey @AboutKP executives, listen to your frontline healthcare workers and bargain in good faith to end the Kaiser short-staffing crisis. Take a stand with the largest group of healthcare workers striking by resharing this post. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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We’ve just submitted our 10-day strike notice! Kaiser executives continue to bargain in bad faith over solutions to the Kaiser short-staffing crisis, and the safety of workers and patients is on the line. We’re ready to walk out Oct. 4! . #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Boom 🔥🔥🔥 37,089 SEIU-UHW members voted YES to stopping @aboutKP ’s unfair labor practices, and winning a contract that protects our jobs, wages, and benefits. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #StrikeReady
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Breaking! Hundreds of healthcare workers are on a ULP STRIKE to tell @_PrimeHealth to stop threatening frontline staff fighting for better staffing & services for patients! Time to bargain in good faith over solutions to the staffing crisis! #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 83,000 Kaiser Permanente workers to hold a one-week unfair labor practices strike nationwide beginning Oct. 14, 2019. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #KeepThriveAlive
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📢STRIKE ALERT📢Dialysis caregivers are in the streets on an unfair labor practice STRIKE today to tell corporations like @Fresenius & @SatelliteHe to bargain in good faith & stop violating our rights! Workers have to stick together! #SolidaritySeason #United4All
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Standing strong with 75k Kaiser workers in the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history! @AboutKP executives: Bargain in good faith now! #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Let's keep SEIU-UHW member Cindy Zepeda in our thoughts. Cindy was an appointment clerk at the Kaiser Baldwin Park call center. She was two months pregnant. Rest in power, Cindy! @CTZebra @FacesOfCOVID
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Let’s pass #FairWages4Health! . Low wages are forcing CA healthcare workers to leave the field. Hospitals make billions, while patients face long waits and worse care. We can fix it! Join at
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Staffing cuts @StanfordHealth puts patients and workers at risk. #WeExpectBetter @KayeFosterCheek @HeartBobH
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We are going on strike because Kaiser executives refuse to bargain in good faith and to listen to us, the frontline healthcare workers, as we try to fix the short staffing crisis at Kaiser. Other union members are ready to support us.
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🚨 🚨 🚨 It’s time for @Fresenius, @SatelliteHealth, @DaVita, and @USRenalCare executives to listen up: stop breaking the law with unfair labor practices! Stop union-busting and retaliating against frontline healthcare workers who stand up for their rights. 📣 🗣️ #FixDialysis
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What @SutterHealth doesn’t want you to see: how Sutter Delta’s severe understaffing and refusal to post open positions affects patient and worker safety.
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INCOMING WORKER POWER 📢 This week, frontline healthcare workers @providence St. Joseph Medical Center are on STRIKE over unfair labor practices! Give this a RESHARE if you feel the power in union solidarity 🦾💪💪🏾💪🏻.#United4All #SolidaritySeason
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It’s on! We’re kicking off the holiday with a strike at four @_PrimeHealth locations in Southern California this week. We can not let Prime silence frontline healthcare workers speaking up about understaffing and its effect on patient care! #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Day 1 of our ULP strike! Healthcare workers are sick and tired of leading a stressed out life for an employer that doesn’t want to treat us right. #TheRealCedarsSinai @CedarsSinai
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Caregivers @StanfordHealth want to make sure that patients get the world-class care they deserve. #WeExpectBetter @joelhyatt @mleslie45
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Gov. @GavinNewsom signed #AB2183, which gives California's agricultural workers greater opportunity to organize and collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. ✊Sí, se puede @UFWUpdates.
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🏥 We made this video when we all worked at Prime Healthcare as a protest against their short-staffing, and dangerous working and patient care conditions. (2/2) #SolidaritySeason #United4All
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"We want you to win — we're going to make SURE you win!" says SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan, who joins us on the picket line at Kaiser Santa Clara as we stand united with Local 39 Engineers in the largest sympathy strike in the country. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #BeKP #Strikesgiving
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We are saddened to hear of the passing of Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan, a true champion for working people and for improving California’s healthcare system. We will miss @wilmachan7’s strong advocacy on behalf of healthcare workers and patients.
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Hey, @RodHochmanMD @PriselacThomas @raffoulj @CarmelaSCoyle: Why are you lying to LA voters about your petition? . Your petition CUTS WAGES for healthcare workers. All while you take in MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR salaries. Watch the ad. Spread the word. Stop their greed.
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HISTORY MADE! @CAGovernor has signed SB 525, setting a minimum wage for healthcare workers across the state to $25/hour. Over 400,000 workers will see their wages increased, helping them pay bills and support their families. #FairWages4Health
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At the height of a surge, COVID supplemental paid sick leave expired in CA, but we kept up the pressure to protect healthcare workers from having to work while sick. For our health, families and patients, we won! Thanks to @GavinNewsom & legislators who extended this protection!
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An injury to one is an injury to all. We stand in solidarity – 40,000-strong across SEIU-UHW, @OPEIU Local 29 & @IFPTE Local 20 – with the Local 39 Engineers to protest Kaiser’s unfair labor practices and help the engineers win a fair contract. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #Strikesgiving.
More than 30,000 Kaiser workers staged a one day strike today in solidarity with Kaiser engineers who have been on strike for two months. The sympathy strikers walked out of 21 facilities across Northern California to demand Kaiser agree to a fair contract with Local 39.
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A Health Care Workers Union Found A Supplier With 39 Million Masks For Doctors And Nurses Fighting The Coronavirus via @nidhiprakash.
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One of our healthcare heroes fighting for healthcare justice #WeAreKaiserWorkers #healthcarejustice #KeepThriveAlive
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Hey @AboutKP CEO Greg Adams, standing up for workers’ rights is a family affair! Bargain in good faith now! 💪✊#United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Hey hey! Ho ho! We’re fighting for patients don’t you know? #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay
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🚨BREAKING🚨 Workers at Fresenius Antioch, Brentwood Park, & Camarillo just voted to become the first UNION dialysis clinic workers in CA!.These workers are struggling with low wages, heavy workloads & short staffing, while Fresenius made over $2B in profits last year.
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Day 1: Today the largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. history begins. Let’s do this! @KPThrive #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Other states have provided pandemic recognition bonuses to first responders, grocery workers, and hospital employees — so why do the sacrifices of California workers continue to go ignored? Tell the #CALeg to support #RealRecognition for healthcare workers.
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BREAKING: The California Teamsters have just voted to stand with Kaiser workers & honor our strike at @AboutKP. That’s 350K workers represented by Teamsters Joint Council 42 & Joint Council 7 will not cross the picket line starting Oct. 14. We are united!
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Thank you for walking the strike line with us, Majority Leader @isaacgbryan! . @AboutKP #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Thank you to Rep @katieporteroc for showing up for frontline healthcare workers at Kaiser OC South! @AboutKP #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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These are some of the toughest shifts we’ve ever had. But we’ve got this. #healthcareworkers #healthcareheroes #Covid19
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“Today, we stand in solidarity with the 75,000 members of our union family who are on strike at Kaiser. Whether you work in a hospital, or behind a desk, or on an assembly line, your fight is our fight. We all deserve dignity on and off the job. We all deserve a future for our
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⏰ The countdown has begun. @AboutKP can end this today. ✅ Bargain in good-faith. ✅ Put patient care first. ✅ End the short-staffing crisis!. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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By eliminating approximately one third of our workforce overnight, Prime is putting the lives of families across LA County in danger of serious illness and even death. @primehospitals it’s time to put patient safety FIRST—bring back essential caregivers!
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Michelle Alexander.A civil rights lawyer, human rights advocate, legal scholar, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She litigated numerous class action discrimination cases and worked on criminal justice reform issues. #WomensHistory
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Thank you, @mrdannyglover, for standing with @aboutKP workers and patients against corporate healthcare. 📢@kpthrive @BernardJTyson @Ramonfbaez @DrRichardIsaacs @choucair @ArtieSoutham @reginabenjamin @jeffEpstein @DrShannonUVA . #WeAreKaiserWorkers #KPStrikeSupporter
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Why does @StanfordHealth, a world-class institution, have such a high infection rate? #WeExpectBetter @ChrisGDawes @joelhyatt @DEntwistleSHC
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Thank you SF Sup @DeanPreston for standing in solidarity with us! ✊. @aboutKP #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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.@StanfordHealth should be putting patient safety first instead of cutting costs for profits. #WeExpectBetter @DEntwistleSHC @levincenter
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COVID ALERT: Essential workers like us spoke up — and now @GavinNewsom has signed a new law providing up to 80 hours of additional COVID-related sick leave for us and other workers across CA. Learn more about this new law and your eligibility:
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On this #LaborDay, we stand united across California. It's time to address the patient care crisis. We’re calling on healthcare corporations like @aboutkp , @_PrimeHealth, #ahmchealthcare, and other hospitals to put patients before profits. #United4All #HotUnionSummer
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Sharp Healthcare worker wages have stagnated while the cost of living continues to rise. It’s time to support your frontline caregivers. #United4All #OneSharpOneUnion
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Innovation & efficiency are great - but compassionate personal care should NEVER be sacrificed. @kpthrive. via @usatoday #HealthcareJustice
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With an overwhelming 98% MAJORITY, we’ve ratified our new four-year contract — a historic victory that revitalizes our Labor Management Partnership and ensures first-rate care for our patients and a secure future for our families. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #HealthcareJustice
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Drop a ✊ in the comments if you’re ready for action!.TOMORROW, frontline Kaiser healthcare workers will walk out over Kaiser executives’ refusal to listen to frontline healthcare workers over the solutions to end the Kaiser short-staffing crisis. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Frontline healthcare workers stand united with their families and the community. 💜✊. @AboutKP #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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Let’s do this! Healthcare workers from @aboutKP San Jose have walked out in support of Local 39 Engineers to protest Kaiser’s unfair labor practices in a historic sympathy strike. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #BeKP #Strikesgiving
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The SEIU-UHW Executive Board has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the recall of @GavinNewsom in a resolution naming him a Healthcare Champion & highlighting his track record of support for healthcare workers & patients, during the COVID-19 crisis & beyond.
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Healthcare workers from @seiu_uhw, OPEIU Local 29, and IFPTE Local 20 are preparing to support the Local 39 engineers in a 24-hr sympathy strike on 11/18 to protest @aboutKP’s unfair labor practices & help the engineers win a fair contract. #BeKP #Strikesgiving.
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Before we go back to our line in San Jose, we must hold a moment of silence in honor of the more than 500 California healthcare workers who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Our union has lost 58 members, 23 of them our co-workers here at Kaiser. #WeAreKaiserWorkers
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Our solidarity is making history! With 40,000 workers supporting the Local 39 Engineers at Kaiser today — from SEIU-UHW, @OPEIU Local 29 & @IFPTE Local 20 — this is the largest sympathy strike in the U.S. since the Pullman Strike of 1894. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #Strikesgiving
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Our engineer co-workers do everything they can to ensure patient rooms and facilities are well-maintained. We reject @aboutKP’s assault on engineers’ standard of living. #BeKP #FrontlineWorker #WeAreKaiserWorkers
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Want your friends and co-workers to know that you’ve voted YES to lock in 🔏 the strongest contract in the healthcare industry? RETWEET this graphic. 📲. #WeAreKaiserWorkers #HealthcareJustice
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Great news! AB290 – which prevents dialysis corporations from profiteering off of sick patients – has passed its toughest hurdle and is on the way to the governor’s desk!
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Lt. Governor @GavinNewsom is taking the lead on the minimum wage and endorsing the Fair Wage Act of 2016!
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Dialysis workers join the union wave across America as workers at 13 clinics in CA just filed for elections! By uniting with us in SEIU-UHW, they will have the power to win a living wage, safer staffing levels and a real say in patient care.
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Cedars-Sinai Employees Vote to Authorize Unfair Labor Practice Strike Over Hospital’s Bad Faith Bargaining - Workers Seek to Address Low Wages, Short Staffing, Despite $1 Billion in Profits
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@aboutKP @kpthrive .@aboutKP executives are refusing to listen to frontline healthcare workers and are bargaining in bad faith over the solutions we need to end the Kaiser short staffing crisis. We want our patients to be safe and to get the care they deserve. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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To all healthcare workers on ULP strike to demand Kaiser bargain in good faith: we have your backs! #SolidaritySeason ✊
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1,500 workers at Sharp Grossmont near San Diego just voted to unite in SEIU-UHW for better jobs & patient care. This is among the largest # of workers at a CA hospital to go union in a decade. Do YOU know caregivers who need UHW power? Message us so we can connect with them.
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While most of us are getting ready for the holidays, @_PrimeHealth workers are getting ready to go back on strike! Prime execs need to come to the table and bargain in good faith to get workers the staffing they need to care for patients. #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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One day longer, one day stronger! Thank you for joining frontline healthcare workers, Sen @MariaEDurazo! . @AboutKP #United4All #SolidaritySeason
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.@SeiuCCWU community clinic workers came out in full force to stand with @UFWupdates in support of #AB2183. Farmworkers should be allowed to vote to unionize in a safe space, free from intimidation by employers.
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RT to show your support for dialysis caregivers on their second day of the ULP strike at @Fresenius and @SatelliteHealth dialysis clinics across California. We demand they stop silencing our coworkers, bargaining in bad faith, and committing unfair labor practices now. #ULPstrike
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It’s our hard work that’s making the difference. Now more than ever, we are #healthcareheroes
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Members of @SEIU105, @seiu49, @SEIU121RN, @SEIU1199NW, @uniteherehawaii, @OPEIU locals 2, 8, 29, 30, & 50, @IFPTE local 20 & @seiu_uhw marched on Kaiser headquarters to ask Kaiser to stand with 83,000 healthcare workers in @UnionCoalition for quality patient care & good jobs.
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“For two years you were on the frontlines, for two years you were at risk, for two years you did everything asked of you. Giving you fair wages and better working conditions is the least they can do.” Thank you @mikebonin! #United4All @CedarsSinai @MDRHospital
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‼️ TODAY 350 healthcare workers at @SutterHealth Delta went back to the picket line to ROUND 2 of a five day strike. We are striking for better working conditions so we can provide our communities the healthcare they deserve . #Strikesgiving #SutterHealth #SutterDelta
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Governor @GavinNewsom just signed #SB343 into law! This means greater transparency in healthcare and a big step for #HealthcareJustice that couldn’t have happened without the bill’s author @DrPanMD
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A year into COVID-19, healthcare workers are exhausted and feel unappreciated. We've lost coworkers & loved ones to the virus, but we continue to show up for our patients. That's why we're announcing #AB650 to give healthcare workers the recognition & support we deserve.
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Success! Governor Newsom just signed a new bill requiring California companies to provide employees with up to 80 hours of paid sick leave for COVID illness, quarantining, receiving vaccinations and recovering from any side effects. #PaidSickDaysNow
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I’m strike ready for my family and patients. RT to stand up against @aboutKP’s unfair labor practices #WeAreKaiserWorkers #StrikeReady #KeepThriveAlive
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