Florida

Consulate members take action and get their bargaining dates

Recently, 1199SEIU Florida members at 17 Consulate Healthcare facilities throughout the state took action to demand bargaining dates that the company was failing to set. In just a few days, leaders were able to move petitions, collecting over 900 signatures before marching on their administrators to give them the petitions.

1199 SEIU Florida members also notified management that they were standing united to join the fight of raising Florida’s minimum wage, affordable and useable insurance, as well as supporting their brothers and sisters’ efforts to get a similar contract at the North Fort Myers facility, where a strike took place earlier this year.

As a result, Consulate Healthcare immediately provided dates for bargaining. Most importantly, they were put on notice that caregivers deserve better and have had enough.

“We are proud to work and be part such a profitable company, but we are caregivers first,” said Pansy Clayton, nursing assistant at Hillcrest Healthcare and Rehab. “We deserve to be respected for the work we do. We care for our community. The residents, here, are like family to us, and we have dedicated our lives to caring for them. But, we have families to care for too. We stand ready.”

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