Healthcare United

Standing Together For Quality Care Healthcare United is a new, national movement of nurses and healthcare workers uniting our voices to heal our broken healthcare system.
Sign-up for email alerts

  • Nationwide

    We're gearing up for the next phase of our work: making tomorrow's healthcare better than today's.

    There's a lot to do, and our work together is just getting started. Get Involved.

Wisconsin

JUNETEENTH

A Day to Raise Every Voice

In Wisconsin, there are 22,603 healthcare professionals and workers who are not yet registered to vote. That means that even if you are registered, 1 out of 5 of your colleagues in Wisconsin is not.  If we are going to change our national healthcare system, we need everyone's voices and every nurse, doctor and healthcare worker registered to vote.

In the spirit of Juneteenth, a day of freedom and emancipation, caregivers across the state are registering their friends, family and coworkers to vote. Here's what you can do:

1. Register to vote
2. Forward the voter registration information to your healthcare colleagues
3. Attend your local Juneteenth event 

STATE CHAPTER

WisconsinIn Wisconsin, Healthcare United is working to support two local campaigns: The Milwaukee Paid Sick Days Coalition and a group of local healthcare referenda campaigns that will launch at the end of May.

The Milwaukee Paid Sick Days Coalition is led by 9to5, National Association of Working Women and includes Healthcare United and almost 50 labor, community, faith-based and neighborhood organizations working together to pass a city-wide referendum vote for paid sick days this November. The proposed ordinance would allow all workers in the city of Milwaukee to earn 1 hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked, capped at 9 paid sick days a year. Workers in businesses with less than 10 employees would accrue at a rate of 1 hour for every 50 worked, up to 5 days a year. Workers will be able to use the time for their own illness, family illness, medical appointments or any absence necessary due to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

Status: The coalition launched a petition drive on April 25th asking city residents to sign on in support of the proposed ordinance. They have 60 days to get 26,000 signatures to move the issue to the City Council. If the Council does not take up the ordinance and pass it, the question will be placed on the November 2008 ballot for Milwaukee voters to decide.

For more information, visit http://www.9to5.org/