Unionizing During Covid-19

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Brett is talking with Lucas a member of the Service Employees International Union about the affect the quarantine has on Home Health Workers and other service industry workers. For more information visit on becoming a member of SEIU 1199 or to learn how to volunteer your services. http://www.seiu1199.org/ Follow them on twitter as well @seiu1199wvkyoh

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome to street Fight Radio Bonus episode. This is where I talk to
0:17.8	working people that are trying to organize the workplace, folks that are, you know, trying to progress the next phase of our
0:28.4	plan, people that want to stand up for working folks and are willing to do it right now.
0:36.0	They're not waiting for when it's going to be best in the future.
0:38.9	They're not planning or anything like that.
0:40.6	They're in the middle of it.
0:41.7	So this week we have Lucas from the
0:45.5	SEIU union correct? SEIU 1199 is my chapter.
0:51.6	Excellent well thanks for being here what exactly does 99 is my chapter. Excellent.
0:53.0	Well, thanks for being here.
0:54.0	What exactly does SE IU 119 service?
0:58.0	SE IU 119 has home health care workers, nursing home employees. It's service
1:06.8	employees international union so it's across the planet across the flat earth and
1:11.6	it covers a lot of different branches of service industry.
1:16.3	But for my work in particular, it's primarily home health care and with the current pandemic situation there's been a lot of involvement with the home health care but also the nursing home folks.
1:30.0	I can't personally speak much on the nursing home side of things, but that's one that's been in the news a whole lot lately.
1:37.0	And it's a really similar situation and issues that the nursing home staff are having that the home health care folks are having but I'm in it
1:44.4	for my position as a home health care worker primarily serving as a job coach for an
1:49.5	individual with some disabilities.
1:51.1	Okay and in with some disabilities. Okay.
1:53.0	And what has been the guidance for home health work during this quarantine?
2:03.2	So a lot of our clients, and in our situation
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