New Mexico Nurses Join CWA
Nurses at San Juan Regional Medical Center entered the holiday season with a big win, forming their union with CWA in District 7. The hospital, located in Farmington, N.M., is a community-owned, Level III trauma center with nearly 200 beds.
Despite a grueling anti-union campaign, intensified by the government shutdown, nurses voted decisively in favor of joining CWA. The organizing campaign was led by workers with help from CWA Local 7076 Organizer Lindsay Morrone and CWA District 7 Senior Campaign Lead Milagro Padilla.
The nurses will now turn their attention to winning elections at four smaller satellite clinics and to bargaining their first contract.
Congratulations to the nursing staff at San Juan Regional Medical Center!
CWA represents a sizable population of nurses and other healthcare professionals across the country, with a major campaign currently underway at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.
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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.
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