From everyday wins to extraordinary efforts, our members’ stories highlight the strength, solidarity, and impact of our union. Help us build a wall of truth: We may not be able to share every story, but every voice helps shape our union’s vision and our future.
The Cost of Care Across the country, unions are standing up for patients as for-profit ventures bankrupt hospitals and compromise community health Sandi Marques, RN, has spent 30 years at St. Francis Medical Center, caring for the people she went to elementary, junior high and high school with—some of the least healthy and least insured […]
Alexis Goudeau, RN, BSN, is the founder of homeless services organization Highly Favored: A Blessing to Others and UNAC/UHCP union steward. Tonight, Alexis will join the Commonwealth Club of California‘s Thought Leadership series, in a discussion of how to grapple with some of the highest costs of housing and highest rates of homelessness of our time: “An astonishing […]
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Fifty years ago, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon of the civil rights movement was murdered in Memphis while fighting for 1,300 black sanitation workers from AFSCME Local 1733. He gave his life for those workers. When […]