Nurse fired from Huntington Hospital to visit White House, discuss union efforts

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A nurse who alleges Huntington Hospital fired her in retaliation for her unionization efforts will get her voice heard by President Obama later this week.

Allysha Almada leaves today for Washington, D.C. to participate in the White House's Summit on Worker Voice on Wednesday...

Nurse fired from Huntington Hospital to visit White House, discuss union efforts

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Nurses, Vicky Lin and Allysha Almada, center, hold a 250-signature petition at a rally in August signed that calls on Huntington Hospital to reinstate their jobs. (Photo by Walt Mancini/Pasadena Star-News)

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Unionizing is always a risk to those brave enough to try to organize. That's any job, anywhere. Not just nursing.

I'm not sure what the White House can do.

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Eventually there will be a court case. She may get her job back.

On October 7, 2015, the White House and the Department of Labor is bringing together workers, labor leaders, advocates, forward-leaning employers, Members of Congress, state and local officials and others to highlight the relationship between worker voice and a thriving middle class...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/campaign/worker-voice

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It's a dangerous job to take on, which is RIDICULOUS! You shouldn't be fired for this, but most employers it is an unspoken policy that this is a strict no-no.

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Sanders calls on Congress to protect workers

... Management retaliated by firing me and one of my co-workers in the ICU,” claimed Allysha Almada, a registered nurse from Pasadena, Calif.

Almada urged Sanders and other members of Congress to protect workers like herself who feel threatened and intimidated because of anti-union hostility...

... "This is legislation that I have supported since the first year I was in the Congress,” Sanders said.

Sanders calls on Congress to protect workers | WOODTV.com

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I think it's ridiculous that you have to fight for safe working conditions. It should be a given, particularly when you literally have people's lives at stake. Unfortunately, that doesn't generate as much profit.

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