Disillusionment. Disenfranchisement. Lack of real change. Frustration. Feeling like the system is rigged. In a normal year, many could list more reasons not to vote than to vote. No doubt, some of you who have never voted or rarely vote could name more. 2020 is not a normal year. We are am asking you to consider, in this topsy-turvy timeline, what your vote could mean.
Read MoreWe are nine months into a deadly pandemic. We have seen small businesses closed, schools shuttered and unemployment levels soar due to the actions — and inaction — of the Trump administration. This failure of leadership has cost the lives of almost 222,000 Americans.
Read MoreAmericans will be going to the polls this election during an uncontrolled pandemic. Health-care workers’ lives have been especially impacted by COVID-19. Many of us work directly with patients to comfort and help heal them under conditions that are often difficult and dangerous. Some of us support frontline workers in ways that are vital to OHSU’s ability to continue to save lives. It is through this lens we must view the 2020 presidential election.
Read MoreEmployees at OHSU Hillsboro Medical Center are exercising their legal right to join our union and bargain collectively. Unfortunately, some staff are facing threats and intimidation from hospital management for trying to better their lives by organizing. OHSU employees must be allowed to organize without management attempting to intimidate and frighten them.
Read MoreWhile our international union makes presidential endorsements, and has endorsed former Vice President Biden, Local 328 generally stays out of the fray of national politics; however, so much is at stake with the 2020 election that we can no longer afford do that. As a union, we must fight for a better society and protect our members, and that means we cannot be passive in this moment.
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