SEIU Healthcare Missouri

Places for People employees and labor organization supporters hold a vigil on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, outside Places for People in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis. They lit candles and read aloud a letter addressed to the the health care organization’s board members. Employees intended to read that letter as board members arrived for that evening’s meeting, but those members never showed.

Health, Science & Environment

Places for People workers call for company support in unionization efforts

Lacretia Wimbley

Workers at Places for People accuse management of union busting and refusing to support a fair union election.

Lemarr Young, an employee at Blue Circle Rehab and Nursing, protests with fellow members of his union, SEIU Healthcare, calling for an investigation of the nursing home’s many deficiencies.

Health, Science & Environment

Workers go on strike at St. Louis nursing home plagued by understaffing and deficiencies

Tessa Weinberg

Two more St. Louis area nursing homes under similar ownership have a history of citations from federal regulators.

Coronavirus

Advocates, unions say vaccine mandate makes nursing homes, other facilities safer

Chad Davis

Unions representing health care workers, including those who work in nursing homes, support a new federal rule that requires their members to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

SEIU Healthcare members rallying to support nursing home workers who want paid sick leave at Grand Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation in north St. Louis on May 4, 2020.

Health, Science & Environment

St. Louis Nursing Home Workers Demand Paid Sick Leave If They Catch Coronavirus

Eli Chen

Every day that Michael Howard reports to work at Grand Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation in north St. Louis, he’s terrified that he will catch the…

Taken on 041320 outside St. Louis University Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak, just ahead of the peak.

Economy & Business

Some Non-Nursing Hospital Employees Are Calling For Hazard Pay

Corinne Ruff

As a therapy technician, Amy Jones doesn’t work directly with COVID-19 patients, but last month she was exposed to the coronavirus while helping another…