Dana El-Kurd

Workers' rights, like we should own the means of production and we should be the ones receiving all of the benefits from it.

Yeah.

But Jackie Mae has just been, like, ready to go.

But we could also talk about, like, the actual start to, like, okay, when did we actually start doing things to this direction, right?

Do you want to take that, Jackie Mae?

Yeah, so, like, light talks have been going on since I got there back in, actually, June of last year.

It's always just been real light, real surface level as in, hey, do you support a union?

would you like to consider being in one one day?

And then I go about my day.

That's as far as the conversation goes because that's all the information I need at that point.

So I knew who in the building was yes.

And last month, one of our members, someone who was already in talks with us, was fired.

And the circumstances around that person being fired, the vibes were off, right?

Like, the previous week, there was...

A dirty cart that just happened to appear in her room that would be worth the write-up to get her fired.

Huh.

That cart couldn't have been hers because before she started school, she moved that cart to her substitute clinician's room.

like could, could not be what management said it was.

So it looks like something that was fabricated to clarify this, this union member, this coworker was going on a leave of absence to attend a certification training program.

So that is why she had a substitute clinician taking over her equipment and