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SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania unites 45,000 health care workers from all areas of the health care industry. We are the nurses, caregivers, dietary workers, lab technicians and housekeepers who work in Pennsylvania’s nursing homes, hospitals, home health care agencies, state health facilities and auxiliary health care services.
Together we work to protect patient care, expand access to quality health care for all, and to improve our working conditions. We accomplish these goals by organizing non-union health care workers, driving industry standards in our contracts and fighting for legislation that affects health care in our state.
SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is affiliated with SEIU Healthcare, part of the Service Employees International Union which represents 2.1 million working people in health care, public services and property services.
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If you call off sick, you DIDN'T leave your coworkers short-staffed.
Your boss did.
If they refuse to hire enough workers to cover sick workers shifts, they didn't include your human needs in their ... calculations.
That is NOT YOUR FAULT!
You earned your Sick Time. You deserve it.
Use your Sick Time, and don't feel guilty about it.
Can we please talk about why Nurses do not have a Pension Plan?!
I would like to welcome our newest members to the union. Schuylkill workers 150 new members strong.
Me and the members at scranton getting our vaccine. 
Anyone know when us Direct Care Workers will be getting our Covid vaccines?
PUSH BACK on sedition supported by seven Republican Congressmen in PA, in conjunction with 119 of their fellow Republicans. Sign this petition demanding the PA U.S. Attorneys investigate them.
John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, and Glenn Thompson: They are not patriots. They are traitors.
TAKE BACK OUR POWER & HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!
Wilkes-Barre PA Celebration!
SATURDAY AT 12 PM EST -2 PM EST
Make Every Vote Count Event
wilkes Barre Public Square
We're stronger when all our voices are heard. With our democracy on the line and our voices hanging in the ballots to determine the true winner of every contest on the ballot.
To sign petition:
https://wegotogetherpa.com/
To Register:
https://www.mobilize.us/ptr/event/362035/
NEWS FLASH # 2 10/24/20: NOW AS THE DEATH TOLL MOUNTS AND TRUMP DOES NOTHING TO SAVE LIVES WHILE TRYING TO CUT HEALTHCARE DURING A PANDEMIC, WE NEED TO VOTE HIM OUT, BECAUSE HE HAS WEAPONIZED THE CORONA VIRUS TO SAVE HIMSELF AT THE COST OF DESTROYING SO MANY LIVES, OUR ECONOMY, AND OUR DEMOCRACY.
NEWS FLASH #1 9/28/20: TRUMP, THE COMMANDER-IN-THIEF, IS
TRYING TO STEAL OUR RIGHT TO VOTE BY RAISING A BOGUS "VOTER FRAUD" ISSUE AND TAKING IT TO THE POLITICIZED SUPREME COURT, WHERE HE HOPES HIS "TRUMPET PUPPETS" WILL ANNOINT HIM DICTATOR/POTUS.
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8/26/20
VOTE TRUMP OUT IN NOVEMBER- HE'S A GRIM REAPER, TRAITOR, DICTATOR, ETC.
1.Trump the GRIM REAPER. Trump is responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths from the Covid 19 virus because he should have taken serious steps to get it under control, as other advanced nations have. At first he wanted to get the economy going rather than save lives, because that was his selling point for re-election. Now he is simply letting people die as cannon fodder TO SCARE PEOPLE FROM VOTING. His actions or lack thereof are “QUASI-GENOCIDAL ”, in that causing massive deaths by withdrawal of food supplies or water or emergency medical care or disease prevention is immoral and criminal. An example of this pattern was Stalin’s appropriation of Ukrainian grain in the 1930’s, which caused the death of millions of Ukrainians.
2. Trump the TRAITOR. Trump made a bargain with the devil, being Russia’s Putin, after they enabled the rebuilding of his fortune, such as it is, by way of investing in and financing his business interests. Some of this is on the record but complex, and much more is hidden in banking and tax records not available. In exchange for that and their help in getting him elected in 2016, Russia has had a free ride in their aggressions. If he got tough with Russia they would expose him and pull the rug on his house of cards business empire, which has excessive debt he can never repay
3. Trump uses and ABUSES HIS POWERS for personal and political gain only, treating this country and its 330 million people as a fiefdom.or real estate property. He ignores the Constitution at every turn.
4. Trump the LIAR. Almost every time Trump speaks, he lies, tens of thousands of lies during his Presidency. He has no credibility. For example, if he announces a Covid vaccine shortly before the election, people would be skeptical and not want to chance taking it.
5. Trump the RACIST. Beyond being a white supremacist, Trump uses racism to divide the country, exploiting racial fears and prejudices to carve out support from working class white people who are ironically being stepped on just like minorities.
6. He is a misogynist and disrespects women’s rights and family values including childcare and moral decency.
7. He PROMOTES VIOLENCE and DOMESTIC TERRORISM, including prompting his minions to amplify violence at street protests, caused by his own policies, and then blaming Democrats as a new distraction from the Covid.
8. He has NO EMPATHY, for the dead or dying victims of the Covid, of racial murders, of domestic terrorist murders, or of the millions losing their jobs or homes or going hungry.
9. He chips away at democracy one step at a time and is now pretty much a DICTATOR. But if he wins another time, he will become very much a dictator. He has trampled on and ignored the Constitution.
10 He has assumed legislative authority from Congress, legislating by EXECUTIVE FIAT.
11. He is PACKING THE COURTS, so that the judiciary would only be a rubber stamp of approval for his actions, right or wrong.
12. He pursues VOTER SUPPRESSION in many ways, in order to steal his and other elections.
13. He has openly stated his intention to DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, a shocking plan that would leave people on the streets, ill and hungry.
14. He has appointed acting cabinet members and other officials to CIRCUMVENT the required Senate APPROVAL PROCESS.
15. He has developed a dangerous CULT following via his bellicose salesmanship- not unlike Hitler’s, which could lead to MAJOR CIVIL UNREST whether he wins or loses the election.
16. He STONEWALLS or outright refuses to comply with CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT..
17. He is essentially a CRIMINAL, with a lifetime trail of FRAUD, business and TAX CHEATING.
18. He is INCOMPETENT, aside from all else, and could not succeed in running the country in any case, as he lacks the concentration, doesn’t read, and has NO WORK ETHIC.
19. He has gone BANKRUPT several times It is no surprise how he has MISMANAGED THE ECONOMY
20. Trump has the personality of a SCHOOLYARD BULLY, and a nasty temper, no negotiating or diplomatic skills.
21. Has been described as like a MOB BOSS, demanding ABSOLUTE LOYALTY and no dissenting opinions from his staff. But he has no loyalty to his staff, whom he fires at will by tweet.
22. Trump will STOP AT NOTHING TO WIN, INCLUDING SABOTAGING THE POSTAL SERVICE to keep people from voting by mail, though this would create havoc in all the other ways mail is vital to Americans, He is likely to refuse to leave office if he loses the election, just like the dictator he already is in a sense.
23. Trump’s 2017 TAX CUT was a TRILLION DOLLAR GIFT TO HIS RICH FRIENDS and himself, with unusual SPECIAL CHANGES TO THE TAX CODE FAVORING HIS REAL ESTATE PROPERTIES
24. Trump opposes even minimal gun control laws, such as background checks and limits to military grade weapons.
25. Trump endangers the environment, creating negative climate changes and health issues.
26. Trump has diminished our place as a world leader in democratic ideals and as a bulwark against Russian and other threats to world peace, and made America under Trump a laughing stock.
27. Trump has not “drained the swamp” as he pretended he would, but has brought corruption to the worst level in our history.
28. Trump has made a joke out of his “Build A Wall” program, proving it impossible to build and easy for people to get over or around. He and his wealthy corporate donors have actually tacitly supported and used illegal immigrants to keep wages down on American workers.
29. Trump has fought in court and otherwise to eliminate Obamacare and pre-existing conditions, the safety net for millions of Americans, and failed to combat high prescription drug prices.
30. Our economy is in the worst state since the Great Depression of almost 100 years ago. It is not an asterisk incidental to a temporary glitch from a virus, but rather a direct result of his deliberate decision to ignore the disease he perceived as a threat to his re-election - which had the effect of both worsening the economy and the pandemic. We now suffer the compound damage of a worsening economy and pandemic, not to mention intense civil unrest.
. In short, Trump played the country as a personal project under his control, holding our welfare hostage to his re-election campaign, which has been his main focus since taking office. Imagine what would happen to our Democracy and our chance to return to normalcy if he wins the election in November. This is why it is so vital that we all vote. If, as it has been said, only 60% of the electorate voted in 2016, and most of the nonvoting 40% were arguably would-be Democrat voters - let’s say 3 out of 4, then 60% of all potential voters were Democrats and Hillary would have won by a 60-40 landslide. That works out, on a sample of 100, to about 30 of the first 60, plus 30 the missing 40, for a total of 60 of 100. Think of it, people, with all the voter suppression, cheating and Russian interference, Democrats would still have won handily with a greater turnout. SO, WHAT TO DO?. VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, WHICH FOR SOME PEOPLE IT DOES, AND FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES AND THAT OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, AND FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY. IT HAS TO BE TAKEN VERY SERIOUSLY. SO VOTE EARLY, ORGANIZE AND HELP YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS AND VOTE. YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE.
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I work with the DOH and would like to know what deal the union is working with management on for a new schedule starting in November.
