<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><h1 name="6234" id="6234" class="graf--leading graf graf--h3 graf--title" style="font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -2.63px; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.015em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137); --x-height-multiplier: 0.342; --baseline-multiplier: 0.22; line-height: 1.04; --margin-top-multiplier: 0; padding-top: 5px !important;">In Pursuit of Social Justice, Unions are the Answer</h1><p name="d921" id="d921" class="graf--p graf-after--h3 graf" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; --x-height-multiplier: 0.375; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Some say it has been a difficult year for unions.</p><p name="4d90" id="4d90" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --x-height-multiplier: 0.375; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">I say, I’m sticking with mine.</p><p name="6ced" id="6ced" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; --x-height-multiplier: 0.375; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">In fact, you couldn’t pry me away from it. Let’s just say the union is the great equalizer, the place where every issue is ultimately addressed in the field, in the trenches, in the workplace, where people’s rights are on the line.</p><figure name="6521" id="6521" class="graf--figure graf graf--layoutOutsetLeft graf-after--p" data-scroll="native" style="margin: 43px 30px 0px -150px; position: relative; clear: both; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-user-select: auto; z-index: 100; --margin-top-multiplier: 0; float: left; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 525px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="position: relative; width: 525px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 525px; max-height: 337px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 336.515625px;"></div><div class="is-canvasLoaded graf-image is-imageLoaded progressiveMedia js-progressiveMedia" data-image-id="1*eOF0HPqKrRjgCAgKCKYqug.jpeg" data-width="5040" data-height="3232" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*eOF0HPqKrRjgCAgKCKYqug.jpeg" data-scroll="native" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 525px; height: 336.515625px; margin: auto; box-sizing: border-box; transition: background 0.2s; -webkit-transition: background 0.2s; cursor: zoom-in; max-width: 100%;"><canvas class="progressiveMedia-canvas js-progressiveMedia-canvas" width="75" height="47" style="display: block; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 525px; height: 336.515625px; margin: auto; box-sizing: border-box; visibility: hidden; opacity: 0; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; transition: visibility 0s linear 0.5s, opacity 0.1s 0.4s;"></canvas><img class="progressiveMedia-image js-progressiveMedia-image" data-src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*eOF0HPqKrRjgCAgKCKYqug.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: block; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; margin: auto; box-sizing: border-box; z-index: 100; visibility: visible; opacity: 1; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; transition: visibility 0s linear 0s, opacity 0.4s 0s; -webkit-transition: visibility 0s linear 0s, opacity 0.4s 0s;" apple-inline="yes" id="19D0F6F2-E37A-4901-B09A-D093CDEBF4ED" height="206" width="320" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:EE1C849B-215D-4C6F-9409-B1489F6F9800@hsd1.ca.comcast.net."></div></div><figcaption class="imageCaption" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal; position: relative; left: 0px; width: 525px; top: 0px; margin-top: 10px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353); outline: 0px; text-align: center; z-index: 300; --x-height-multiplier: 0.342; --baseline-multiplier: 0.22; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'lnum' 1; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; letter-spacing: 0px;">RNs and caregivers at UCSF show solidarity and strength</figcaption></figure><p name="0fc0" id="0fc0" class="graf--p graf-after--figure graf" style="margin: 38px 0px 0px; --x-height-multiplier: 0.375; --baseline-multiplier: 0.17; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Unions are where the very stuff of our survival — wages and benefits, workplace safety and workplace justice, human rights and bargaining rights — come into play. Unions are the only way working people have ever found the voice — and power — they need to fight and win against giant corporations, and the billionaires who control them. More on website>>>>></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://medium.com/@NNUBonnie/in-pursuit-of-social-justice-unions-are-the-answer-bc3178c119dd" class="">https://medium.com/@NNUBonnie/in-pursuit-of-social-justice-unions-are-the-answer-bc3178c119dd</a></body></html>