Workers at Community Medical Center (CMC) in Fresno are fed up with low pay, disrespect by management, understaffed departments, and an anti-union campaign they say has violated Federal labor law. Latisha Jones, speaking at a public hearing before the Fresno Fair Election Commission, said CMC security guards told her not to hand out flyers supporting the union. Jones said the guards told her "that if we did not leave they would call police and press charges against us." Jones was there on her own time, was not blocking access to the hospital, and had a legal right to be there. She and her co-workers stayed and handed out flyers - they refused to be threatened and intimidated.

Workers like Jones are standing up for their rights and organizing a union because they want better working conditions at CMC. Workers at CMC know that employees doing the same job at Kaiser Hospital, which is union, are making twice as much money. They also know that under a union contract they will have job security, better benefits (like health care, which some workers don’t currently have for their family members), and a work environment that gives them dignity and respect.

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