Care Is Essential

Healthcare workers fighting for quality, affordable healthcare and good union jobs.

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

This March 31, we’re making it clear: we stand with survivors of sexual assault. WE ARE WITH YOU.

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Healthcare workers at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital in Lebanon, Oregon just voted overwhelmingly to unionize with SEIU Local 49. Every Samaritan hospital is now UNIONIZED!✊🏥 #UnionsForAll https://t.co/MjkJE7aGMb

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Healthcare workers with @1199SEIU UHWE are speaking out, urging Rochester Regional Health to halt proposed layoffs that could impact more than 100 workers. Cutting these jobs doesn’t just hurt workers — it puts patient trust at risk. https://t.co/wC4FQerPoO

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Inna Nefodova fled war in Ukraine, rebuilt her life here, and now cares for her parents full-time. Cutting Medicaid for families like hers is cruel and unnecessary. Read her story here: https://t.co/bG2qwiwBLS

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Once again, policymakers won’t fund care, rehabilitation, or family support — but there’s always money for prisons.

[Vanguard News Group @DavisVanguard]

ACLU urges judge to reopen case against Wisconsin's Department of Corrections for allegedly violating court order to allow incarcerated mothers to retain custody of their infants. ACLU claims no such program has been established.

https://t.co/KxWbY6vqIZ

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Thousands of nurses across Southern California are on strike at Kaiser, Providence, and West Anaheim — demanding safe staffing and real patient protections! #UnionsForAll

https://t.co/BQDGWHJLBN

[Illinois Drivers Alliance @DriversIllinois]

TODAY, we are 100,000+ strong & we aren't backing down.

We just introduced a bill for our right to unionize. We are the backbone of this industry.

✅ Fair Pay is a right.
✅ Safety is a right.
✅ A Union is a NECESSITY.

We have the power to make this happen. See you at the Statehouse.✊

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Ohio pediatricians spoke up for kids—and got fired for it. Now doctors are suing for retaliation and defamation after raising alarms about understaffing, lab delays, and medication shortages. Even Bernie Sanders is calling it out.

Silencing doctors doesn't serve anyone.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Rather than respecting the right of its doctors to advocate for better working conditions and care for patients, University Hospitals in Ohio chose to fire pediatricians Drs. Beene and Fouts-Fowler for speaking up.

University Hospitals must immediately reinstate these doctors.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Rather than respecting the right of its doctors to advocate for better working conditions and care for patients, University Hospitals in Ohio chose to fire pediatricians Drs. Beene and Fouts-Fowler for speaking up.

University Hospitals must immediately reinstate these doctors.

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

This is an attack on nurses. Capping loan forgiveness means fewer people enter the field — in a nation that is already short on nurses.

Hurting nurses means hurting patients. #UnionsForAll

https://t.co/xT0HQxRTdv

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

A new Department of Labor proposal could strip 3 million home care workers of minimum wage + overtime — reopening the “companion” loophole bosses use to pay poverty wages.

Workers like Angela live off OT. Losing it means losing food, rent, survival. https://t.co/PhSruQURMI

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

A UPMC nurse was beaten unconscious — and corporate execs want to “talk” instead of act. Nurses have been begging for safe staffing, real security, and basic protections for YEARS. Workers aren’t disposable! https://t.co/7zeyZvJbjo

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

This only confirms what we already knew: when we pay and value care workers, we get better care. Period.

READ MORE HERE: https://t.co/wNhozkwNzt

#CareIsEssential

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

In a first in Minnesota, hundreds of Allina doctors go on one-day strike https://t.co/srwgPZinzW

[SEIU Minnesota @seiumn]

NOW: 600 Allina doctors, physicians’ assistants, and nurse practitioners who are members of Doctors Council - SEIU are on a 1-day ULP strike. The union hoped they could avoid a strike, but Allina continues to propose cuts and changes that would be bad for providers and patients.

[Doctors Council SEIU @DoctorsCouncil]

600 doctors, physicians' assistants and nurse practitioners with @DoctorsCouncil are holding the largest 1 Day ULP strike of its kind today in Minnesota. We're fighting for our patients, primary care, and respect at @AllinaHealth. Let's get corporate greed out of our care!

[Doctors Council SEIU @DoctorsCouncil]

DOCTORS COUNCIL ULP STRIKE UPDATE: Last Scheduled Bargaining Session Between Allina and Doctors Council-SEIU Ends With No Deal, Historic 1-Day Strike To Commence at 7:30 AM Wednesday.

[Care Is Essential @CareIsEssential]

Indigenous care workers have always led with courage — healing, protecting, and fighting for justice. 💜

We honor that legacy by defending truth, protecting history, and standing for every worker’s dignity.

#CareIsEssential #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

[SEIU Virginia 512 @SEIUVA512]

“The fight for democracy lives in our hands, the same hands that bathe, clean, feed, and care for those who cannot care for themselves”
- Athena Jones, SEIU VA 512 Home Care Chair, in @newsone
✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾✊🏼 Care work is democracy in action. #CareIsEssential
https://t.co/A9eJplvWSY

[SEIU Virginia 512 @SEIUVA512]

VICTORY! 📷 SEIU 512 members in Fairfax County have voted to ratify their historic first union contract with a 99.9% majority- a massive victory for over 11,000 public service workers. This is what solidarity looks like!

#FairfaxCounty #UnionsForAll #Victory