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As Nursing Homes Come Under Fire For Illegally Discharging Patients…Workers call for good jobs, safe staffing, and improved patient care
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2017. As Illinois nursing home owners come under heightened scrutiny for improper patient discharges and inadequate staffing care, more than 1,000 nursing home workers picketed at 11 nursing homes in the Chicago area on Friday, to stand up for fair wages, quality jobs, and patient care. Holding large banners reading “Nursing Home Work is Worth More,” and signs reading “Fair Wages, Dignity and Quality Care,” hundreds of workers joined by state legislators, gubernatorial candidates, elected officials and community leaders including Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, Cook County Board Commissioner Chuy Garcia and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), marched and chanted outside multiple nursing home facilities across Chicagoland.
Holding large banners reading “Nursing Home Work is Worth More,” and signs reading “Fair Wages, Dignity and Quality Care,” hundreds of workers joined by state legislators, gubernatorial candidates, elected officials and community leaders including Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, Cook County Board Commissioner Chuy Garcia and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), marched and chanted outside multiple nursing home facilities across Chicagoland.
“I am proud to stand up with nursing home workers today in their fight for respect and fair wages,” said Chuy Garcia. “Theirs is a job that takes heart and soul every day and improves the lives of our most vulnerable family members. Yet nursing home workers, the majority of whom are women of color, are among the lowest paid workers in the state.”
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