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Ohio pediatricians spoke up for kids—and got fired for it. Now doctors are suing for retaliation and defamation after raising alarms about understaffing, lab delays, and medication shortages. Silencing doctors doesn't serve anyone. www.cleveland.com/court-justic...
Doctors claim retaliation, defamation in lawsuit against University Hospitals
Two Cleveland-area pediatricians sue University Hospitals, claiming they were fired for raising patient safety concerns and defamed in a smear campaign.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Ohio pediatricians spoke up for kids—and got fired for it. Now doctors are suing for retaliation and defamation after raising alarms about understaffing, lab delays, and medication shortages. Silencing doctors doesn't serve anyone. www.cleveland.com/court-justic...
This is an attack on nurses. Capping loan forgiveness means fewer people enter the field — in a nation that is already short on nurses.
Hurting nurses means hurting patients. #UnionsForAll
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Hurting nurses means hurting patients. #UnionsForAll
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Trump admin plans to exclude nursing from professional degree category; Pa. nurses react
The Trump administration plans to exclude nurses from the professional category of college degrees as part of a plan to cap federal student loans, raising concerns among healthcare professionals about...
www.wtae.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is an attack on nurses. Capping loan forgiveness means fewer people enter the field — in a nation that is already short on nurses.
Hurting nurses means hurting patients. #UnionsForAll
www.wtae.com/article/trum...
Hurting nurses means hurting patients. #UnionsForAll
www.wtae.com/article/trum...
A new Department of Labor proposal could strip 3 million home care workers of minimum wage + overtime — reopening the “companion” loophole bosses use to pay poverty wages.
Workers like Angela live off OT. Losing it means losing food, rent, survival. capitalandmain.com/home-care-wo...
Workers like Angela live off OT. Losing it means losing food, rent, survival. capitalandmain.com/home-care-wo...
Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back
Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A new Department of Labor proposal could strip 3 million home care workers of minimum wage + overtime — reopening the “companion” loophole bosses use to pay poverty wages.
Workers like Angela live off OT. Losing it means losing food, rent, survival. capitalandmain.com/home-care-wo...
Workers like Angela live off OT. Losing it means losing food, rent, survival. capitalandmain.com/home-care-wo...
A UPMC nurse was beaten unconscious — and corporate execs want to “talk” instead of act. Nurses have been begging for safe staffing, real security, and basic protections for YEARS. Workers aren’t disposable! www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...
UPMC nurses raise alarm about workplace safety after nurse is beaten unconscious in ER
UPMC nurses are demanding the giant health system to addresse workplace safety after nurse sustains brain injury in ER patient assault.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A UPMC nurse was beaten unconscious — and corporate execs want to “talk” instead of act. Nurses have been begging for safe staffing, real security, and basic protections for YEARS. Workers aren’t disposable! www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...
This only confirms what we already knew: when we pay and value care workers, we get better care. Period.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This only confirms what we already knew: when we pay and value care workers, we get better care. Period.
READ MORE HERE: homehealthcarenews.com/2025/11/home...
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#CareIsEssential
Indigenous care workers have always led with courage — healing, protecting, and fighting for justice. 💜
We honor that legacy by defending truth, protecting history, and standing for every worker’s dignity.
#CareIsEssential #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
We honor that legacy by defending truth, protecting history, and standing for every worker’s dignity.
#CareIsEssential #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Indigenous care workers have always led with courage — healing, protecting, and fighting for justice. 💜
We honor that legacy by defending truth, protecting history, and standing for every worker’s dignity.
#CareIsEssential #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
We honor that legacy by defending truth, protecting history, and standing for every worker’s dignity.
#CareIsEssential #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Nearly 200 Northview Village Nursing Home workers were left unpaid when the facility suddenly shut down in 2023—abandoning staff and 170 residents.
Now, a federal judge just ruled they’re owed $2 million in damages.
When workers fight, workers win! #UnionsForAll
Now, a federal judge just ruled they’re owed $2 million in damages.
When workers fight, workers win! #UnionsForAll
October 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Nearly 200 Northview Village Nursing Home workers were left unpaid when the facility suddenly shut down in 2023—abandoning staff and 170 residents.
Now, a federal judge just ruled they’re owed $2 million in damages.
When workers fight, workers win! #UnionsForAll
Now, a federal judge just ruled they’re owed $2 million in damages.
When workers fight, workers win! #UnionsForAll
Minnesota nursing home workers are finally getting a raise — $19 to $28.50/hour — after Minnesota’s new Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board set new wage standards. Care work IS essential work. #UnionsForAll #CareCantWait www.minnpost.com/state-govern...
Minnesota has a plan to turn around nursing homes’ staffing crisis - MinnPost
For nursing homes, retaining workers is a persistent and growing challenge, particularly in rural communities.
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October 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Minnesota nursing home workers are finally getting a raise — $19 to $28.50/hour — after Minnesota’s new Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board set new wage standards. Care work IS essential work. #UnionsForAll #CareCantWait www.minnpost.com/state-govern...
It’s official! MI Home care workers have won their union, @seiuhcmi.bsky.social! This historic win means a better future where care workers get the respect they deserve and our loved ones can get the care they need. #CareIsEssential
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It’s official! MI Home care workers have won their union, @seiuhcmi.bsky.social! This historic win means a better future where care workers get the respect they deserve and our loved ones can get the care they need. #CareIsEssential
A judge ruled nursing homes “routinely and willingly failed to properly compensate” 6,000 workers—nearly $36M in back pay. Now management wants the appeals court to toss the judgment. Caregivers deserve justice, not more corporate excuses. www.mcknights.com/news/nursing...
Nursing homes ask appeals court to toss $36M judgment in back wages case
A management company and several of its nursing homes are asking a federal appeals court to reverse a ruling that could cost them $35.8 million in back wages and damages.
www.mcknights.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A judge ruled nursing homes “routinely and willingly failed to properly compensate” 6,000 workers—nearly $36M in back pay. Now management wants the appeals court to toss the judgment. Caregivers deserve justice, not more corporate excuses. www.mcknights.com/news/nursing...
Missouri Republicans are trying to steal our voice—redrawing maps to rig the 2026 election and threatening workers' sick leave and wages. We are fighting back! ✊ labortribune.com/protesters-d...
Protesters decry ‘spineless Republicans’ push to redraw congressional maps, restrict Missouri’s initiative petition process - The Labor Tribune
By TIM ROWDEN Editor-in-Chief Clayton, MO – Anger and frustration over a Republican push to redraw congressional districts and restrict Missouri’s initiative petition process drew hundreds of protesto...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Missouri Republicans are trying to steal our voice—redrawing maps to rig the 2026 election and threatening workers' sick leave and wages. We are fighting back! ✊ labortribune.com/protesters-d...
Trump just slashed home health workers’ pay & gutted protections against discrimination.
The 4.3M caregivers—mostly women of color—who keep our elders & disabled loved ones safe deserve more, not poverty wages.
We need unions, not Trump’s rollbacks. www.peoplesworld.org/article/trum...
The 4.3M caregivers—mostly women of color—who keep our elders & disabled loved ones safe deserve more, not poverty wages.
We need unions, not Trump’s rollbacks. www.peoplesworld.org/article/trum...
Trump slashes home health workers’ pay and neuters discrimination protections
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is planning to cut the pay of some of America’s lowest-paid workers: The nation’s 4.348 million home health care workers.
www.peoplesworld.org
September 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Trump just slashed home health workers’ pay & gutted protections against discrimination.
The 4.3M caregivers—mostly women of color—who keep our elders & disabled loved ones safe deserve more, not poverty wages.
We need unions, not Trump’s rollbacks. www.peoplesworld.org/article/trum...
The 4.3M caregivers—mostly women of color—who keep our elders & disabled loved ones safe deserve more, not poverty wages.
We need unions, not Trump’s rollbacks. www.peoplesworld.org/article/trum...
🚨 Michigan win for workers’ rights!
The state Supreme Court says bosses can’t hide behind unfairly short deadlines to block lawsuits — limits must be reasonable so workers can fight back against harassment, retaliation, & abuse. www.mondaq.com/unitedstates...
The state Supreme Court says bosses can’t hide behind unfairly short deadlines to block lawsuits — limits must be reasonable so workers can fight back against harassment, retaliation, & abuse. www.mondaq.com/unitedstates...
Michigan Supreme Court Says Time Limits On Employment Claims Must Be Reasonable
On July 31, 2025, in Rayford v. American House Roseville I, LLC, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that contractual time limitations for employment lawsuits must pass a reasonableness test.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨 Michigan win for workers’ rights!
The state Supreme Court says bosses can’t hide behind unfairly short deadlines to block lawsuits — limits must be reasonable so workers can fight back against harassment, retaliation, & abuse. www.mondaq.com/unitedstates...
The state Supreme Court says bosses can’t hide behind unfairly short deadlines to block lawsuits — limits must be reasonable so workers can fight back against harassment, retaliation, & abuse. www.mondaq.com/unitedstates...
🚨BIG WIN: Union nursing home workers across 45 PA facilities just secured contracts with higher wages, retirement security & training opportunities. www.newsbreak.com/the-shenando...
Union workers at local nursing homes ink new contract - NewsBreak
FRACKVILE – Union workers at two local nursing homes ratified new contracts recently, which their... The post Union workers at local nursing homes ink new
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August 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
🚨BIG WIN: Union nursing home workers across 45 PA facilities just secured contracts with higher wages, retirement security & training opportunities. www.newsbreak.com/the-shenando...
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 www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...
UW Health Nurses determined to win seat at bargaining table. People want unions. | Opinion
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.
www.jsonline.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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 www.jsonline.com/story/opinio...
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. 19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling
Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...
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July 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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. 19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...
In L.A., child-care workers—many of them immigrant women—are locking their doors, canceling park trips, and making emergency plans in case ICE detains a parent.
Our kids are growing up in fear.
This is not safety. This is terror. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Our kids are growing up in fear.
This is not safety. This is terror. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Child-care providers brace for a painful scenario: What if ICE comes knocking?
As fear reverberates across the child-care industry amid ICE raids, providers and nannies are not only worried about their own safety but also the safety of the kids.
www.latimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In L.A., child-care workers—many of them immigrant women—are locking their doors, canceling park trips, and making emergency plans in case ICE detains a parent.
Our kids are growing up in fear.
This is not safety. This is terror. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Our kids are growing up in fear.
This is not safety. This is terror. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Doctors, nurses, and staff at Madison’s Group Health Cooperative are unionizing to protect patients and push back against burnout, understaffing, and corporate healthcare cuts. The frontline is rising. ✊🏽 #UnionStrong www.wpr.org/news/doctors...
Doctors and nurses at Madison primary care center want a union. It's a sign of health care changes.
Primary care providers face challenges like low profits and a worsening nursing shortage. At Madison-area Group Health Cooperative, those pressures have sparked a unionization campaign by doctors and ...
www.wpr.org
June 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Doctors, nurses, and staff at Madison’s Group Health Cooperative are unionizing to protect patients and push back against burnout, understaffing, and corporate healthcare cuts. The frontline is rising. ✊🏽 #UnionStrong www.wpr.org/news/doctors...
🚨 Nursing home workers in Metro Detroit are speaking out! Workers said Ciena Healthcare threatened, disciplined & even fired staff for going on strike and demanding better pay & conditions. www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
Nursing home workers say company fired employees who picketed
The workers care for residents at facilities in Detroit, St. Clair Shores and West Bloomfield Township.
www.detroitnews.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🚨 Nursing home workers in Metro Detroit are speaking out! Workers said Ciena Healthcare threatened, disciplined & even fired staff for going on strike and demanding better pay & conditions. www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
950 nurses are on strike in Madison, WI—demanding safe staffing, better pay, and respect. They're fighting for a system that puts patients and workers over profits. Solidarity with these frontline heroes. ✊💜 #UnionStrong www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Strike by 950 nurses in Madison, Wisconsin over workplace safety and wages
The five-day strike, the first by nurses at the hospital, takes place amid numerous struggles of healthcare workers nationally.
www.wsws.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
950 nurses are on strike in Madison, WI—demanding safe staffing, better pay, and respect. They're fighting for a system that puts patients and workers over profits. Solidarity with these frontline heroes. ✊💜 #UnionStrong www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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We're outside the for-profit ICE detention center where our union sibling Rümeysa Öztürk is being held unjustly, simply for expressing her beliefs. No one should be locked up for exercising their rights. Free Rümeysa and all those unjustly detained! #4the1st
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We're outside the for-profit ICE detention center where our union sibling Rümeysa Öztürk is being held unjustly, simply for expressing her beliefs. No one should be locked up for exercising their rights. Free Rümeysa and all those unjustly detained! #4the1st
When a veteran reaches out for help, too often the only hand there is Medicaid.
Now Congress is eyeing $880B in cuts—putting care for veterans, families & disabled folks on the line.
We should be expanding Medicaid, not slashing it. #HandsOffMedicaid www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
Now Congress is eyeing $880B in cuts—putting care for veterans, families & disabled folks on the line.
We should be expanding Medicaid, not slashing it. #HandsOffMedicaid www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
Virginia veterans face uncertainty amid potential Medicaid cuts
Congressman Bobby Scott brought together elected officials, medical professionals, and veterans to discuss potential budget cuts to Medicaid.
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April 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
When a veteran reaches out for help, too often the only hand there is Medicaid.
Now Congress is eyeing $880B in cuts—putting care for veterans, families & disabled folks on the line.
We should be expanding Medicaid, not slashing it. #HandsOffMedicaid www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
Now Congress is eyeing $880B in cuts—putting care for veterans, families & disabled folks on the line.
We should be expanding Medicaid, not slashing it. #HandsOffMedicaid www.13newsnow.com/article/news...
A federal judge just blocked a Biden admin rule to boost nursing home staffing—even though understaffing is already hurting residents. This is what happens when corporate profits matter more than care. #UnionsForAll #CareCantWait kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Federal Judge Blocks Mandate on Nursing Home Staffing - KFF Health News
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Biden administration rule to boost staffing at nursing homes. The decision comes even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents’ care.
kffhealthnews.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A federal judge just blocked a Biden admin rule to boost nursing home staffing—even though understaffing is already hurting residents. This is what happens when corporate profits matter more than care. #UnionsForAll #CareCantWait kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
🚨 Republicans want to gut $880 billion from Medicaid — putting care for seniors, kids, people with disabilities, and cancer patients on the chopping block — all to give billionaires more tax breaks. #HandsOffMedicaid thehill.com/policy/healt...
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April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🚨 Republicans want to gut $880 billion from Medicaid — putting care for seniors, kids, people with disabilities, and cancer patients on the chopping block — all to give billionaires more tax breaks. #HandsOffMedicaid thehill.com/policy/healt...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM