SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West

08/21/2026

Manny is a CNA at Dignity Health He used to have staff down the hall watching his patients' heart monitors, ready to move the second something changed. Management cut those jobs. Now an out-of-state technician watches his patients, as many as 45 at a time. That can mean an extra minute before anyone reaches the bedside. In a cardiac emergency, a minute is everything. This is what understaffing looks like, and it is only getting worse. Congress gutted Medicaid. Dignity is cutting more, and your hospital could be next. Prop 40 makes billionaires pay so our patients don't. Vote yes in November.

08/20/2026

Manny has watched Dignity Health cut beds and staff while patients wait longer for care and executives take home millions. Healthcare layoffs will continue unless we find funding to replace what Congress cut. Save lives. Tax billionaires.

08/18/2026

Hatshepsut’s facility was already understaffed before the layoffs began at Dignity Health and she knows firsthand what happens when caregivers disappear. Fewer hands at the bedside means less care for her patients. We know what understaffing looks like in our departments. It got this way because hundreds of millions of dollars went to executive pay instead of staffing at the bedside. And it will only get worse if we don't do something about it. That’s why we’re voting yes on Prop 40.

08/16/2026

A hospital that isn't clean isn't safe. Ask any patient. "We are the ones who disinfect," says Maria Cardenas, a housekeeper at Sharp Mesa Vista. Last week, Sharp executives cut her job—just one of 260. Sharp told the public these cuts wouldn't reach patient care. Then they cut workers who keep infections out of the building.

"They didn't give us a warning. It was out of the blue. I have four kids. I have bills."

The federal Medi-Cal cuts are real. We agree. That's why we're fighting to fix it with Prop 40. If the crisis is real enough to justify mass layoffs, it's real enough for Sharp to back the modest, one-time tax on billionaires that would keep California's healthcare funded.

As rising costs hit healthcare, Maria Cardenas and others at Sharp face unexpected layoffs. How will this impact their families and patient care?

08/14/2026

Erica is a unit coordinator on the layoff list Dignity Health. Her nurses cannot absorb the work she's leaving behind, and she told this directly to management. She fears it will take a fatality before they stop looking the other way. But we have the power to put a stop to this. We’re voting YES on Prop 40 this November to replace the federal healthcare funds Congress cut last year in the “big beautiful bill.”

08/13/2026

Sharp Healthcare. UC San Diego. Dignity Health. All cutting frontline caregivers. All saying they have no choice. But they do. Prop 40 funds healthcare by taxing billionaires. It's on the ballot in November.

We saw this coming. Hospital executives looked away.

08/13/2026

Billionaire flight is a billionaire LIE! Save our healthcare by voting YES on Prop 40 this November.

08/12/2026

The fight for justice continues! We stood united with immigrant rights advocates at SEIU CA's Immigrant Day of Action to demand state lawmakers protect immigrant communities.

08/12/2026

Sharp knows exactly what's happening to healthcare in California. But instead of standing with the frontline healthcare workers fighting to stop the collapse, management handed them layoff notices.

If this crisis is real enough to begin mass layoffs for frontline caregivers, it's time for Sharp executives to support Prop 40 to fund healthcare and save lives by taxing billionaires.