Dana El-Kurd

This is like one of the fastest escalations I've ever seen.

Before we get to this Monday, let's talk about what happened at those two meetings.

Because this...

is genuinely such an impressive pace of how fast all of this got organized.

Yeah, so the first meeting, May 2nd, we basically gathered every clinician who we believed we could trust, who was not either a manager in training or did not have direct ties to management, and also who was on-site because there were some people that we would have loved to have talked to who were...

off-site attending a certification program at another location.

So we gathered up everyone we could that started with about eight of us and grew to ten as the night wore on.

We talked about the circumstances around the firing of that co-worker who was in school.

We all talked about our options for how do we proceed.

We voted unanimously to form a union and to do so under the auspices of the industrial workers of the world, thanks in part to Jackie May having contact with them and having gotten a bit of a lowdown on what our options looked like.

So that was the TLDR of the first meeting.

That's like two-thirds of the shop, of the total people.

Yes.

Yes, of the people who were active practicing clinicians there, I think we were only missing a couple.

Yep, which is really impressive.

I wish we could have got them.

Yeah, we definitely wish we could have gotten to everybody or had been clearer on who was actually not management.

Yeah, that's also a thing that management will play a lot of games with who is and isn't union eligible people.

I just want to like stop for a second and be like getting like two thirds or more of a shop to show up to the first meeting and vote to form a union is like that might be the fastest I've ever seen this happen.

It's like you did this in one meeting.