Two hundred healthcare workers at West Covina, Calif.-based Kindred Hospital San Gabriel Valley made plans to unionize Thursday, according a news release.
The workers are joining the Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union, an affiliate of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. The union said CHEU represents laboratory technicians, respiratory therapists, aides and food service workers, among other healthcare workers.
Registered nurses at Kindred Hospital San Gabriel Valley voted to become members of the California Nurses Association in May.
CHEU said it now represents more than 1,000 Kindred registered nurses and healthcare workers at area facilities, such as San Gabriel Valley, Baldwin Park and Westminster.
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