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Picketing for Safety: Local Hospital Workers, Negotiating a New Contract With Tenet, Say the Company Isn’t Doing Enough to Protect Patients and Employees

by Kevin Fitzgerald September 1st, 2020December 16th, 2020

Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) picketed at each of the three Tenet-operated hospitals in the area last week—claiming that employees at the hospitals need to take life-threatening risks every day to care for local patients battling COVID-19. The members formed picket lines at the Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua […]