FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 19, 2025

SAN DIEGO — Healthcare workers across Sharp Staffing Resource Network (SRN) have voted unanimously to improve patient care and jobs by joining SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), a union of 120,000 healthcare workers across California. The election took place by mail from April 28 to May 19 and covers approximately 200 frontline workers at Sharp SRN, a float pool of caregivers who work at Sharp HealthCare facilities throughout the region.

This victory comes on the heels of the recent election at Sharp Coronado Hospital, where more than 450 workers joined SEIU-UHW on April 30. These workers unite with over 5,000 workers at Sharp Metropolitan Campus, Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, and Sharp HospiceCare who previously voted to join SEIU-UHW and won a historic union contract in November.

“We pour our hearts into providing great care for our patients, but many of us struggle to provide for our families here in the most expensive city in the nation,” said Chanda Bray, a Training Assistant/Patient Attendant at Sharp Staffing Resource Network. “We’re thrilled to join the thousands and thousands of other healthcare workers who have said ‘enough is enough’ and unionized to improve patient care and jobs across San Diego.”

The vote was unanimous: 100 percent of the workers voting supported joining SEIU-UHW. This unionization victory applies to a variety of job classes, including nursing assistants, certified nursing assistants, patient attendants, vaccine coordinators, pharmacy techs, access service representatives, certified phlebotomy techs, ultrasound techs, rehabilitation aides, safety assistants, and other frontline healthcare workers.

Throughout the San Diego area, healthcare workers are unionizing in record numbers. In addition to the nearly 6,000 workers across Sharp HealthCare who have voted to join SEIU-UHW, 550 Planned Parenthood workers and nearly 400 dialysis workers in the region have done so recently.

Last November, over 5,000 SEIU-UHW members across Sharp HealthCare won one master union contract, which includes pay increases of up to 34% over three years, major improvements to medical benefits, and a strong voice for workers in staffing and patient care.

“We’re not stopping at Sharp,” said Alicia Bradley, an anesthesia technician at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital. “I know healthcare workers at other facilities in San Diego. They’ve seen how much our new contract improves things for patients, workers, and this whole community, and they’re ready to join us in SEIU-UHW.”

Sharp Healthcare made net income of $495.7 million in 2023, according to its own financial disclosures. Sharp HealthCare’s CEO made $2.6 million in compensation in 2023.

# # #

SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a healthcare justice union of more than 120,000 healthcare workers, patients, and healthcare activists united to ensure affordable, accessible, high-quality care for all Californians, provided by valued and respected healthcare workers.