{"id":65740,"date":"2026-07-29T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?post_type=victories&#038;p=65740"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:35:29","slug":"nursing-specialists-in-florida-vote-to-unionize","status":"publish","type":"victories","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/actions\/victories\/nursing-specialists-in-florida-vote-to-unionize\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Specialists in Florida Vote to Unionize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>A seat at the table:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>The nurses supported each other throughout the campaign, starting with their union card authorization signing session. From the front on the left: Rosanna, Sabrina, Sara, Nicole, and Latasha. On the right: Kirsy, Stephanie, Lori, and Joan.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chemotherapy nurses working at Watson Clinic Cancer and Research Center in Lakeland, Fla., voted to join\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/tag\/ufcw-local-1625\/\">UFCW Local 1625<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month. This is the first unit there to join the local.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organizers say that in hopes of stalling the organizing effort, the employer added four nurse practitioners and a team lead to the vote list. That led to five challenged votes out of the 15 votes cast, which wasn\u2019t enough to silence the voices of the nurses whose concerns with safety and fairness lead them to seek out union representation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;nursing staff&nbsp;behind the win said they\u2019re looking to improve the workplace for both themselves and for&nbsp;those&nbsp;who come after them. \u201cWe wanted to join UFCW to provide support for current and future&nbsp;healthcare workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seat at the table:\u00a0The nurses supported each other throughout the campaign, starting with their union card authorization signing session. From the front on the left: Rosanna, Sabrina, Sara, Nicole, and Latasha. On the right: Kirsy, Stephanie, Lori, and Joan. Chemotherapy nurses working at Watson Clinic Cancer and Research Center in Lakeland, Fla., voted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":65742,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[609],"class_list":["post-65740","victories","type-victories","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-industries","tag-ufcw-local-1625"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nursing Specialists in Florida Vote to Unionize - The United Food &amp; Commercial Workers International Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nursing Specialists in Florida Vote to Unionize\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/actions\/victories\/nursing-specialists-in-florida-vote-to-unionize\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nursing Specialists in Florida Vote to Unionize - The United Food &amp; 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