Category: Nurses

+ caregivers, Domestic Workers, Filipino migrant workers, GABRIELA, Immigration, Nurses, People Power, Politics, Trafficked workers

Why May 1 Matters

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What is May 1? Four days before Cinco de Mayo. The day after April 30. AND, International Workers Day all over the globe. Whatever you need to do to remember it, do it. In the US, May 1 has also doubled for Immigrants/Workers Day. A kasama once said, “It’s like Christmas for workers.” Its the day folks come out to celebrate the fact that … Read More Why May 1 Matters

+ CPCP, Filipino migrant workers, Nurses

English Only Never Works

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Nurses in central California have sued and won a case against English-Only discrimination in their workplace. In the Center for Place, Culture and Politics seminar a few weeks ago, Bill Fletcher, came in and spoke about how racism in the US is inherently tied into American foreign policy and thus American immigration policy. And I, like most of the seminar’s participants, agreed with him. … Read More English Only Never Works

+ Filipino migrant workers, Nurses, Philippines, Sociologizing

Un-Warren-ted Assumptions

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Last week, wrote a bit about the Filipino nurses in California, via California Nurses’ Association (CNA) filing a lawsuit against California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) about hiring discrimination against Filipino nurses. After the news of this discrimination suit spread through local and national circuits, Warren Browner, the CEO of CPMC released the below letter to Terry Valen, the organizational director of San Francisco’s Filipino … Read More Un-Warren-ted Assumptions

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Labor of Care launchMarch 30th, 2018
Bayanihan Community Center, 1010 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 6:30-8:30 PM Light refreshments will be served Books will be on sale

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