FACT: Union workers consistently have better benefits, higher wages, and better working conditions.
FACT: USC is currently paying millions of dollars to a firm called The Weissman Group to break worker solidarity and weaken union support.
FACT: USC is currently paying millions of dollars to a firm called The Weissman Group to break worker solidarity and weaken union support.
FACT: Our tuition dollars are going to a multimillion firm that is well known for union busting.
What can we do?
Student voices matter! We can tell USC that we want employees to have fair working conditions!
Teach-In
in support of
USC Healthcare workers
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
12:30pm
WPH 301
Endorsed by: Student Activists for a Beloved Community, Graduate Students of Color Network, Food Not Bombs, Students for Justice in Palestine, Peers in American Studies and Ethnicity Organization (PASEO)
Endorsed by: Student Activists for a Beloved Community, Graduate Students of Color Network, Food Not Bombs, Students for Justice in Palestine, Peers in American Studies and Ethnicity Organization (PASEO)
Questions or want to get involved? USCworkersolidarity@gmail.com
Sign onto a SUPPORT LETTER in solidarity with the workers!
USC workers deserve a voice in their workplace conditions.
UNIONS GIVE WORKERS POWER
- Without a union, workers have few rights that their employer is legally bound to respect, and can be hired or fired at will -- e.g. simply because the employer does not like their hairstyle.
- A union contract helps protect workers from discrimination. The union also serves as a collective voice that the employer is legally bound to negotiate working conditions with; a union gives workers a voice at the table.
UNIONIZED WORKERS ARE GOOD FOR EVERYONE
- A unionized healthcare workforce means higher quality care! When the people who deal directly with patients have a say in having adequate supplies, staffing and workload, it's good for patients, too. Healthcare workers are deeply concerned about patient care -- but in non-union hospitals, they are over-worked and given high workloads, putting patients at risk.
USC WORKERS WANT TO UNIONIZE
- The hospital workers overwhelmingly want to remain unionized, with an majority signing a petition in favor of doing so. However, USC has been employing highly aggressive union-busting tactics in the period of time before the union election, which has been post-poned until May, and includes an option to have no union.
USC IS UNION BUSTING
- USC has hired the well known union busting firm, The Weissman Group, which lists “union avoidance strategy” as a service it offers to corporations.
- USC hospital workers are being harassed by security guards and management for talking about workplace conditions or passing out flyers during their off-time.
- Workers are being called in to their boss's office one-on-one and told not to vote for the union, and threatened that USC will never negotiate with the union.
Let's value caregivers.
Healthcare workers deserve basic workplace standards.
Healthcare workers deserve basic workplace standards.
