Care Is Essential
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Healthcare workers fighting for quality, affordable healthcare and good union jobs.
Joined July 2015
RT @SEIU1107: Professionals at @SunriseLasVegas are struggling while @HCAhealthcare made over $5.7 BILLION in profits last year. Tell exec….
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RT @seiu_uhw: BREAKING: Thousands are in the streets to stand up to the politicians who cut our healthcare to fuel ICE and further enrich b….
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Everyone’s calling this a feel-good comeback story — and it is. But imagine being one of the greatest ever in your field and still having to come out of retirement just to access affordable healthcare. There’s something deeply wrong there.
Venus Williams after becoming the oldest WTA match winner since 2004:. “I had to come back for the insurance, because they informed me this year that I’m on cobra. So it’s like, I got to get my benefits on” 😭😭😭😭.
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UW Health nurses spent 14+ years fighting just for the right to bargain. The system is rigged so CEOs & lobbyists win while working people wait. Workers want unions — and we won’t stop until we get them. 🩺✊ #UnionsForAll
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For more than 14 years, UW Health nurses have been stuck in legal limbo when it comes to our right to organize and collectively bargain.
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Nicolle Orozco Forero cared for kids with disabilities — now she and her sick child are in detention. Families are left stranded. This is cruelty, not safety.
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Nicolle Orozco Forero was one of the few immigrant women who provide child care for American children with disabilities. Then she and her seriously ill son were taken into ICE custody.
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RT @seiuhcpa: "Magee is where my family has delivered their babies for four generations now. A very special nurse practitioner took the ti….
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I was a scared 17-year-old when I first went to Magee-Womens Hospital for my prenatal care. I had a high-risk pregnancy, and as a teenage mom, I had no idea what to expect. There was never any...
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RT @SEIU: Like the Freedom Riders before us, workers of all races & places bussed across the US to Louisiana's detention alley-epicenter fo….
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RT @SEIU1107: PREACH BERNIE! @SenSanders sent a strongly worded letter to the CEOs of Sunrise & HCA demanding they respect & retain profess….
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RT @SEIU1107: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a POWERFUL letter to the CEOs of Sunrise & @HCAhealthcare calling on them to respect, suppor….
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RT @CalltoActivism: 🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Moments ago at the Russel Senate Office building Medicaid activists in wheelchairs were arrested by Ca….
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RT @CalltoActivism: 🚨 They’re arresting people in wheelchairs - disabled Americans - just for protesting Medicaid cuts. If we don’t show u….
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RT @BillyBaldwin: Insurrectionists hunt Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi to kill them. pardoned. Senior citizens in wheelchairs protest Repub….
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RT @SEIU925: Cuts to Medicaid will strip care from children and working families, threaten healthcare jobs, and deepen the nation’s care cr….
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RT @SEIU1107: 🚨Republican Senators are pushing massive cuts to healthcare, affordable housing, food assistance & other essential services,….
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RT @FightForAUnion: We’re in D.C. standing with allies and partners in the Chant for Our Lives. Together, we’re raising our voices against….
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RT @seiu1199wvkyoh: WKO members are still going strong in DC. We are flooding every committee room in the Senate to remind our senators tha….
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RT @SEIU2015: 🎉 Yolo home care workers have done it! Their hard-won IHSS contract, approved by the county Board of Supervisors yesterday, s….
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RT @MIHCWUnited: Jaquanese stopped by @SenJoniErnst's office today to talk about the Senate's upcoming vote on the "#BigBeautifulBill." The….
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RT @SEIU1107: Our SEIU fam is taking the fight for our future directly to DC! Republican senators are pushing to cut healthcare and essenti….
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RT @cirseiu: The recent travel bans have prevented dozens of doctors from coming to the U.S. to start caring for patients. 📣 Secretary of S….
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