Workers at billionaire-owned Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center say they want better wages and benefits so patients can get the dignified care they deserve. And in a rare move, a major union opened its strike fund for workers fighting for a union before they have won union recognition.
Alameda Healthcare & Wellness Center, a skilled nursing facility, is the only non-union nursing home in Alameda, and one of the only non-union nursing homes of its size — roughly 150 workers and 159 beds — in the entire Bay Area. Workers set out to change that this week with a three-day picket line in front of the facility, demanding that management recognize their decision to unionize with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 2015.
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