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2023 STRIKE FUND FOR HBH WORKERS!
2023 STRIKE FUND FOR HBH WORKERS!

Howard Brown Health Workers United (HBHWU), representing dedicated healthcare

and retail professionals, Howard Brown Health (HBH), have voted 96% in favor of taking

their second strike in under a year due to persistent illegal unfair labor practices by the

employer and their failure to settle a fair contract.

The wall-to-wall unionized staff of Howard Brown Health have been patient and resilient

throughout the near year-long negotiation process despite union busting and illegal

changes to working conditions. HBHWU is dedicated to achieving a fair contract that

recognizes the essential work of its members.

Executive leadership of HBH says they are concerned with sustainability. We say, you

cannot have a sustainable organization if you have employees who can’t pay their rent

because they are paid so poorly. We say, you cannot have a sustainable organization if

the South Side is consistently under-resourced. We say, you cannot have a sustainable

organization if working conditions are subject to constant changes and workers have no

say in those changes.

We want to settle a fair contract - but if executive leadership continues to refuse

and break the law, then we will strike. We will make it clear that they gain more by

working with us than against us.

Donate to this fund to support these courageous workers as they fight for their first

contract!
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Susan Hurley is fundraising
2022 SOLIDARITY FUND FOR HBH WORKERS!
PLEASE NOTE: This is the 2022 fundraising page. Please click here for the For the 2023 Fundraising page! Thank you!!

Solidarity Fund for HBH Workers United!

Howard Brown Health (HBH) is a network of medical clinics and social services organizations focused on the needs of Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community. On August 9th, 2022, 470 HBH workers won their union election with 97% voting yes. On Saturday, November 19th, the 20 person bargaining committee attended their first contract negotiations with a dozen union members also attending to observe. The bargaining team presented 23 contract proposals aiming to improve conditions for workers and patients. In response, Howard Brown stated they want to fire 100 new union members by Christmas. Management's very first proposal in union bargaining was a voluntary separation proposal which includes a week’s worth of severance pay for most employees and insurance that cuts off before the New Year.

While HBH workers are fighting this blatant union busting, this throws good faith negotiations moving forward into serious question. These workers provide the most vital healthcare to the queer community in Chicago and it’s appalling that this is where HBH leadership’s priorities lie going into the winter. HBH workers are about to enter an intense struggle with a management actively set on busting their union. Therefore, this page will now serve as an ongoing solidarity fund, and potential strike fund, for the HBH workers as they work to protect patient care, their coworkers, and their working conditions from HBH’s Executive Leadership Team(ELT).

Donate to this fund to support these courageous workers!

Howard Brown Health (HBH) is a network of medical clinics and social services organizations focused on the needs of Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community. Now more than ever, HBH is an essential resource to the LGBTQ+ community, and the workers have been embroiled in a fight against management to continue to provide care.
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Susan Hurley is fundraising
Bread for Ed and Med

We're back in action to support 5,000 workers ON STRIKE at University of Illinois, on campus and at the hospital and health system!

We are already using the money raised before and want to make sure we keep cash in hand to provide material support for workers striking for their lives and livelihoods which is just what is happening at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Read more about the UIC Strike: http://seiu73.org/2020/09/14/uic-we-are-going-to-strikeforourlives/

Follow SEIU Local 73 onFacebook and Twitter to stay up to date on the struggles, see video from members, and images of actions and picketing happening in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford.

1,400 RNS with the Illinois Nurses Association are also on strike at UIC!

https://illinoisnurses.com/news-events/chicago-tribune-strike-date-set-for-1300-university-of-illinois-hospital-nurses/

Chicago Public School (CPS) workers of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73 have been bargaining with the City of Chicago for improvements to their working conditions and their schools. The Chicago Democratic Socialists of America and Chicago Jobs with Justice stand with CTU and SEIU Local 73 in their fight for:

Full staffing of social workers, nurses, counselors, and special education aides
Enforceable small class sizes
Clean and safe schools by ending the private contracting of school services to outside companies
Affordable housing
Sanctuary for immigrant students and families

The potential impending strike promises to be one of the largest in the modern history of Chicago.

With CTU and SEIU 73 focused on organizing their membership, one area of vital support that we can provide is coordinating efforts to feed students who will be denied the meals they would normally get in school for the duration of the strike. These efforts help build community support for the striking workers and demonstrate to City Hall that all Chicagoans are united in this fight. Similar Bread for Ed efforts across the country, including in the DSA chapters of Oakland and Los Angeles, have proved a vital form of support and good publicity for those strikes. We hope to accomplish something similar here.

Student meals will be a heavy lift but are absolutely necessary because so many children rely on their school lunch for their meals and because the city will likely use the lack of food for students as a cudgel against teachers and staff to break the strike. In addition, many support staff, who are currently making poverty wages, often less than $20,000 a year, are making a significant sacrifice to win the schools our students need during this strike, and it will be important to make sure strikers don’t go hungry. Despite this we are hoping through partnerships with neighborhood organizations, aldermanic offices, churches, and local restaurants we can alleviate these problem. The places where this need is most critically felt is on the south and west sides of Chicago.

We will also be providing meals at actions and rallies. Meals at direct actions will provide teachers and staff with the vital energy they need to keep the strike going until their demands are met. This can be met easily by working with food trucks to either purchase food ahead of time or donate their food
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