UIC Nurses, Essential Workers Team Up For Strike

By Meha Ahmad, Zach Wilson, Stephanie Kim
Exchange-Nurse Appreciation
An aerial photograph of a soybean field planted by Sac County farmers Chase Roeder, Dan Roeder and Casey Friedrichsen, is shown southeast of Odebolt, Iowa, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. The farmers created the message in honor of nurses by planting the letters with a later maturing variety of beans to make them stay greener longer than the background. Brandon Aschinger / Sioux City Journal via AP
Exchange-Nurse Appreciation
An aerial photograph of a soybean field planted by Sac County farmers Chase Roeder, Dan Roeder and Casey Friedrichsen, is shown southeast of Odebolt, Iowa, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. The farmers created the message in honor of nurses by planting the letters with a later maturing variety of beans to make them stay greener longer than the background. Brandon Aschinger / Sioux City Journal via AP

UIC Nurses, Essential Workers Team Up For Strike

By Meha Ahmad, Zach Wilson, Stephanie Kim
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More than 800 nurses at UIC Medical Center walked out of work Saturday following the end of their contract. Today, members of SEIU Local 73 joined them on the picket line.

Reset is joined by WBEZ’s Kristen Schorsch and union leaders from the Illinois Nurses Association and SEIU to discuss the strike and what they hope to get out of it.

GUESTS: Paul Pater, Illinois Nurses Association co-chief steward at UIC Hospital

Dian Palmer, SEIU Local 73 president

Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ Cook County reporter