DHWU is a union of frontline DH employees fighting for health & safety protections + equitable wages, benefits & working conditions + increased public funding.
Denver, CO
Joined May 2020
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We are Denver Health Workers United ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 Join us: ucwcolorado.org/dhjoin
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
BREAKING:
Uber says workers make $37 an hour. That's a blatant lie.
We found Denver workers for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash merely make $5.49 after expenses.
That's 35% of the city minimum wage ($15.87) &officially puts workers below the poverty line.
theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
Denver Health workers deserve Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance. The DHHA board is voting on September 22 on whether to opt in, opt out or provide their own leave program.
Sign the petition to make your voice heard:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Denver Health Workers United retweeted
WATCH: UCHWU member Cassie gave an exceptional testimony against Temporary Repayment Agreement Provisions (TRAPs) at the US Senate Budget Committee briefing on September 7th!
youtu.be/lgkVhKIUmCI
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“Hospitals have demonstrated that they would rather TRAP their employees with the threat of debt than incentivize them to stay.”
—Cassie Penning, proud member of @cwa7799 testifies before @SenateBanking to #StopWorkerTRAPS
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Powerful words from Cassie Pennings (starts @ 19:55) testifying about the horrible treatment healthcare workers like her face in trying to give us the care we need, literally being trapped in debt to not leave an abusive employment situation.
@UCHWU1 @cwa7799 @cwaphew @CWAUnion
LIVE NOW
Virtual Listening Session: Consumer Financial Products’ Impact on the Dignity of Work
Tune in: teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1mrxmkoPO…
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Don't fall for the boss's empty gestures that do nothing to change the very real dangers and inequalities that workers of color experience
Join us Oct 9th @ 6PM for Building an Anti-Racist Union to learn how we can dismantle racism in our workplaces
tinyurl.com/7799-antiracist-…
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Last week, we lost a great fighter for workers' and women's rights. In remembrance of journalist and author Barbara Ehrenreich, we invite you to read this piece honoring her contributions to the labor movement. #Solidarity 🧵
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This Sunday!
This Sunday, in Denver.
@SBWorkersUnited @SBWUColorado @ColoradoDsa @DSAdenver @DSA_Labor #UnionStrong #UnionYes #sbwu #starbucksworkersunited #Starbucks
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
🔥 New Union just dropped 🔥
Thrilled to have @DefenderUnionCO part of #CWA Local 7799 & to build worker power across higher ed, healthcare, criminal justice, and CO public services to fight for our public good 🤝
#TogetherWeBargain #DividedWeBeg
defendersunionco.org/
Welcome to the @cwa7799 family!
Today’s the day! Join DUC NOW! Visit our website to sign up to become an official DUC member!
defendersunionco.org/
#ducyeah #ducducgrow
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
“The combination of the lethality of the virus and the seemingly total abandonment of collaboration from the management I was under produced anxiety and fear in me I had never felt, never."
Public health workers deserve better-- together, we can win! #1u
inthesetimes.com/article/nur…
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This week in #WorkerPower: @ucwcolorado members are hitting not one✅, not two✅✅, not three✅✅✅, but all FOUR✅✅✅✅ University of Colorado campuses for an all-out organizing blitz over the next few days. Now that's we call a #CWAStrong to the #FallSemester!
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🧵: Today, the NLRB issued a decision in Tesla, Inc., in which the Board held that employer attempts to restrict the wearing of union insignia, including clothing and buttons, are presumptively unlawful, absent special circumstances.
nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-…
ALT A quote graphic that says, "Wearing union insignia, whether a button or a t-shirt, is a critical form of protected communication. For many decades, employees have used insignia to advocate for their workplace interests - from supporting organizing campaigns, to protesting unfair conditions in the workplace - and the law has always protected them." - Chairman McFerran
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
DUC is affiliated with CWA 7799! This local works specifically with Colorado Public Service Workers who don’t yet have collective bargaining rights. We are so excited to join @UCHWU1, @DplUnited, @ucwcolorado, and @DHWorkersUnited under the @cwa7799 umbrella! #ducducgrow
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@IlhanMN writes in Jacobin: “We don’t have a shortage of nurses. We have a shortage of dignified workplaces in our health care system.” jacobin.com/2022/08/ilhan-om…
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
BIG NEWS: The NLRB issued a Complaint yesterday alleging Starbucks ILLEGALLY withheld new wage & benefit improvements from union stores.
The complaint calls out CEO Howard Schultz BY NAME and calls on him to record a video reading us our rights as workers and apologize.
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
Bosses: We really value every member of the team here!
[Narrator]: They did not.
Respecting public workers, means paying a fair, living wage. Nothing less! #WorkersRights
Denver Health Workers United retweeted
Unions won 639 NLRB elections in the first half of 2022—the highest total in nearly 20 years
Those wins organized a total of 43,092 workers, more than double the number in the first half of 2021
Only 12% of the 43,092 came from the 200 wins at Starbucks
news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomb…
