USC healthcare workers vote this week on strike authorization
More than 1,500 Keck-USC healthcare workers are voting this week on whether to authorize a five-day strike as they fight for better pay and benefits and the right to protest unsafe working conditions.
If approved, the work stoppage would take place at Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and several university clinics and call centers.
The strike authorization vote began Monday and will conclude Sunday, May 23. Contracts expired for most of the USC workers at the end of April. No strike date has been set, and negotiations were scheduled for Friday, May 21 and Thursday, May 27.
The workers –including nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, housekeepers, medical technicians and licensed vocational nurses — are represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
Read more: https://www.dailynews.com/2021/05/21/usc-healthcare-workers-vote-this-week-on-strike-authorization/
(Los Angeles Daily News)