1,000 W.V. Hospital Workers Strike to "Build Back Better"
HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA – In the parking lot outside of Cabell Huntington’s emergency department, workers have gathered in front of a fire bin. Heather Jordan, a middle-aged secretary, approaching retirement age at the hospital, is standing with other workers trying to warm themselves as the temperature drops into the 30s.
It’s a freezing cold Wednesday night on the first day of the strike at Cabell Huntington Hospital, where more than 1,000 workers are participating. For Jordan, who participated in a strike at the hospital in 1998, it’s bringing back a lot of feelings.
“Kind of feels like deja vu,” Jordan says. “It feels very powerful. Just to stand together with my union brothers and sisters.”
Huntington, the largest city in West Virginia, whose population hovers around 47,000, is a city with a proud union history. The Ohio River Valley town is now writing a new chapter in its history as these 1,000 healthcare workers, SEIU 1199 WV/KY/OH members, are on strike at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Three miles down the road, another 500 workers are on strike at Special Metals.
The town has already rallied behind the striking workers, even helping a group of 50 machinists at Sulzer Pump win an improved union contract following a two-week strike at their employer.
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