Today’s Action: Tell Howard Brown Health to not lay off workers right before Christmas!
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Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes back at Lauren Boebert over Speaker race: "She childishly threw me under the bus"
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Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds a replacement
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Congress reaches deal to keep Puerto Rico's Medicaid program funded
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Human Rights Campaign honors transgender son of Kentucky Senator who died by suicide
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Today’s Action: Tell Howard Brown Health to not lay off workers right before Christmas!
Howard Brown Health Workers United just voted to authorize an imminent strike after learning that corporate executives at Howard Brown Health were planning to lay off at least 60 union staffers. The company’s disastrous decision will not only affect the livelihoods of some of our most important frontline workers, but also the Chicago community they serve. Beyond the sheer inhumanity and piss-poor timing of the plan, it will flip the care the company is able to provide to patients on its head. The planned layoffs will cut already understaffed areas of the hospital, completely slash LGBTQIA+ family planning services, and leave just two sexual assault trauma care persons and six therapists to serve 30,000 patients.
CEO David Munar’s milquetoast statement that the removal of 60 staffers would not affect patient care couldn’t be further from the truth. It will drastically impact the lives of staff, their family members, patients, and more. With this move, Howard Brown Health’s management is effectively saying they couldn’t care less about mental health and family planning in Chicago — or the people they employ. We won’t stand for it.
With a strike on the horizon, Howard Brown Health Workers United needs our solidarity now more than ever. That can come in the form of donations to the solidarity fund or angry emails to the people in charge, or both if you’re feeling impassioned. However you show your solidarity, do everything you can to tell Howard Brown Health to NOT lay off workers — especially right before Christmas. Bah humbug!
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