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Feature
Story (continued) |
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Conversation
with
Jill Furillo
Director
of Government Relations,
California Nurses Association (CNA) |
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to Speak ... Assemble ... Organize |
When we do education for people here at CNA,
the first question we ask is, "What is a union?" And
we’ll get 20 different responses. So we talk a lot about it.
We usually come up with a good answer, which is that a union
is a group of workers who unite together to get the boss to do
what we want. And we have the right to unite together to do
that — whether we’ve had a union election or not.
'LET'S JUST DO IT!'
We’re constantly organizing at CNA. If you
talk to our organizers, you’ll hear outrageous stories of
what happens when we try to organize. The employers bring in
anti-union consultants who are paid enormous sums of money.
The last campaign, they actually brought dogs into the
hospital to sniff out people who supposedly weren’t supposed
to be there on the day of the election. But we’ll have to do
these NLRB elections for the next hundred years if we’re
going to organize everybody who wants to be organized.
So let’s just do it. Let’s just go ahead
and act on our constitutional rights
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