Youtube Video of Friday's Action

Youtube Video of Friday's Action: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bQITHf0mks

Tuition is the largest source of USC’s revenues. Regardless of how USC classifies its spending flows, we are part of this “community” and how its resources are used should be students’ concern.

The union-busting is affecting several unions at USC's hospitals, including the California Nurses Association (CNA), which has contract renegotiations in the fall.

• Since USC bought two private hospitals last year, it has been using every opportunity to break the already unionized staff.
• USC has refused to grant the CNA nurses the same level of benefits as other union workers at USC, counter to its own parity agreements. 
• Currently, nurses are forced to work in hazardous conditions -- at times only receiving a three-hour rest break to sleep between shifts, endangering patients' safety.  Despite these extremely strenuous, debilitating hours, the nurses are disciplined for falling asleep at the hospital.  Nurses are trying to organize to address these and other conditions. 
• Nurses report union-busting harassment and intimidation used against them, under the Weissman Group's guidance.

Faculty and students have signed a support letter in solidarity with USC healthcare workers, and calling on the administration to rescind the Weissman Group.  Please see the letter here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/uschospw/petition.html