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It Could Happen Here

The Union Election That Could Change Everything, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

News, Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Raina, Eric, and John from Shift Change, the first slate of rank and file workers ever to run for National Nurses United's Council of Presidents, tell the story of how being isolated, lied to, and forced to take deals seemingly cut by union staff behind their backs led them to make history and fight to change the largest nurses union in the US.

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:11.0

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

0:16.0

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0:23.0

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0:35.0

Welcome to Nick at App and Here.

0:37.0

The show about things following apart and how to put them back together again.

0:40.0

I'm your host, Mia Wong.

0:42.0

And today we have a really exciting episode.

0:44.0

We're going to be talking to a group of workers from the California Nurses Association, which is specifically their National Organizing Committee,

0:50.0

which is I think better known to most people as, and then you or National Nurses United.

0:54.0

And these people are part of a shift of workers who is for the first time running a rank and file slate for the Council of Presidents,

1:06.0

which is sort of, they're a body that combines the positions of Vice President and President of the Union.

1:11.0

They're called shift change.

1:12.0

And so Eric, do you want to introduce yourself?

1:16.0

All right. My name is Eric Cook.

1:18.0

I've been a nurse for 32 years.

1:21.0

I currently work in the Cardiac Telemetry floor.

1:25.0

And I became a nurse after being a Navy Cormin in the first Gulf War.

1:29.0

And just continued in health care from there.

1:34.0

I was originally an LVN and then became a registered nurse.

1:38.0

And I've been on the past three negotiating teams for out-of-bates summit hospital.

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