SEIU seeks a union vote by medical workers.

Publication: Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA)

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Byline: Jeff St. John

Aug. 28--In what organizers said could be the largest private-sector union organizing effort in Fresno history, the Service Employees International Union on Monday kicked off a drive to unionize about 2,000 workers at Community Medical Centers.

Saying that they are overworked and underpaid, pro-union workers called on the nonprofit hospital chain to agree to a fair union election process during a rally outside Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno.

"We are here today because of serious problems in our hospitals, and we want to fix them," Lydia Martinez, a licensed vocational nurse who has worked for 32 years for the...

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