{"id":65809,"date":"2026-08-06T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?post_type=victories&#038;p=65809"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:34:13","slug":"unionization-win-at-florida-healthcare-facilities","status":"publish","type":"victories","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/actions\/victories\/unionization-win-at-florida-healthcare-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Unionization Win at Florida Healthcare Facilities"},"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>Here\u2019s to your health!:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Aviata Health Group employees from left to right: Erica, Sharline, Vidya, Meesha, Anjalina, Aaliyah, and Jeeni<\/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\">Over 450 healthcare specialists at several nursing homes and medical centers around Florida recently joined\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/tag\/ufcw-local-1625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UFCW Local 1625<\/a>.\u00a0 The new members are employed as nurses aids, pharmacy technicians, housekeepers, and dietary staff at Lakeland Regional Health, Aviata Health Group, Blue Circle Healthcare,\u00a0and Award Care locations. They joined our union looking for better wages, benefits, and fair treatment.<\/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\">Two of the companies, Blue Circle Healthcare and Award Care, have new owners who weren\u2019t previously under contract with UFCW Local 1625 and agreed to recognize the union rather than fight the employees\u2019 campaign.<\/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\">Balanced Health Care&nbsp;worker and UFCW Local 1625 member Vidya Sinanan helped with the recruitment effort at Aviata Health Group, where the workers hadn\u2019t gotten raises in several years. \u201cIt was easy to sell the healthcare workers on organizing, all I had to do was tell the Aviata employees the difference between working as a union member and working nonunion and they jumped at the opportunity to join.\u201d &nbsp;In addition to the approximately 50 certified nurses\u2019 assistants who came on board, 15 housekeeping and laundry staff also signed the petition to join.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s to your health!:\u00a0Aviata Health Group employees from left to right: Erica, Sharline, Vidya, Meesha, Anjalina, Aaliyah, and Jeeni. 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