Humans of UNAC/UHCP: Desiree Nack, RN

Special report: In hospital bankruptcies, patient care pays the price

Special report: In hospital bankruptcies, patient care pays the price

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 […]

Humans of UNAC/UHCP: Alexis Goudeau, RN

Humans of UNAC/UHCP: Alexis Goudeau, RN

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 […]

A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King

A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King

“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 […]