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April 10, 2020

U.S. Healthcare Workers Demand Protective Gear in National Day of Action
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In the United States, frontline healthcare workers held a national day
of action Thursday to demand personal protective equipment, or PPE, for
healthcare workers - including employees of nursing homes and long-term
care centers. In Chicago, over 100 workers from Stroger Hospital and the
Cermak Cook County Jail hospital joined an SEIU Local 73 protest
demanding universal testing of frontline healthcare workers, increased
healthcare funding and an extension of paid sick leave and other
benefits. This is Chicago union leader and activist Tyrone De'Andre
Hawthorne.

Tyrone De'Andre Hawthorne: "We are the essential workers that you hear
about on the news every day. And since we can't go home and work from
home like those who are making six-figure salaries, then, damn it, give
us our hazard pay!"



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