Rank-and-File slate for National Nurses United Leadership
Mental Health Resources for Healthcare Workers
National Nurses United Covid-19 Mental Health Resources
NAMI Health Care Professionals support page
12 Resources for Healthcare Workers Struggling with their Mental Health
Stories, Lessons & Analysis
Striking as a Nurse: a story from a first-time striker (UK, 2023)
Chapter 4: Healthcare (UK, 2023)
North Carolina Nurses Seek Their First Union (United States, 2020)
Frontline Hospital Workers Wildcat Against Massive Cuts to Public Healthcare (United States, 2020)
With Grievance Process Suspended, Healthcare Workers Turn to Direct Action (United States, 2020)
Hong Kong Hospital Workers Strike (Hong Kong, 2020)
“We have been silent for so many years”: Interview with a Hong Kong Nurse on Strike (Hong Kong, 2020)
20 Years Ago Nurses in Saskatchewan Wildcatted. Could the Same Happen Today? (Canada, 2019)
Books on Health Care Organizing
Labor’s Civil War in California
A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this thorough account examines the dispute between the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in California and its “parent” organization the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)—one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. It explores how the UHW rank and file took umbrage with the SEIU’s rejection of traditional labor values of union democracy and class struggle and their tactics of wheeling and dealing with top management and politicians. The resulting rift and retaliation from SEIU leadership culminated in the UHW membership being forced to break out and form a brand new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
This expanded second edition of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone updates the dramatic story of an insurgent labor union that by the end of the 1980s had established itself as a vital force in the modern labor movement. But even bigger changes were on the way. Overcoming internal divisions that originated in its 1930s-inflected and civil rights-era militancy, 1199SEIU adopted a new strategy of labor-management cooperation to emerge as a key player in state and city politics. When SEIU president Andrew Stern laid plans in 2006 for a new national health care workers union that would simultaneously reach out to the unorganized and campaign for universal, national health insurance, he turned to 1199 president Dennis Rivera–and the 1199 political model–to lead the effort. With new material that updates the union’s history since the 1990s, this book conveys the promise and problems of movement-building in the twenty-first century health care industry.
Purple Power: The History and Global Impact of SEIU (2023)
Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than half the membership while people in minority groups make up approximately forty percent.
Luís LM Aguiar and Joseph A. McCartin edit essays on one of contemporary labor’s bedrock organizations. The contributors explore key episodes, themes, and features in the union’s recent history and evaluate SEIU as a union with global aspirations and impact. The first section traces SEIU’s growth in the last and current centuries. The second section offers in-depth studies of key campaigns in the United States, including the Justice for Janitors and Fight for $15 movements. The third section focuses on SEIU’s work representing low-wage workers in Canada, Australia, Europe, and Brazil. An interview with Justice for Janitors architect Stephen Lerner rounds out the volume.
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