Healthcare Workers at All Six Sharp Medical Offices Form Union with SEIU-UHW to Improve Patient Care and Jobs
Healthcare Workers at All Six Sharp Medical Offices Form Union with SEIU-UHW to Improve Patient Care and Jobs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 1, 2025
SAN DIEGO, CA – Workers at Sharp HealthCare medical offices across the San Diego area 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 June 9 to 30 and covers approximately 40 frontline workers at all six offices known as SharpCare in Coronado, Chula Vista, La Mesa, San Diego, Santee, and Spring Valley.
Six thousand Sharp Healthcare workers across San Diego have now formed their union with SEIU-UHW. This victory at SharpCare comes on the heels of recent election wins at Sharp Coronado Hospital, where over 450 workers joined SEIU-UHW in April and Sharp Staffing Resource Network, where 200 workers joined in May. These workers unite with those 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 voted to unionize for the same reason so many other healthcare workers across San Diego have — to provide better care for our patients and a better life for our families,” said Sharmaine Figueroa, a medical administrative assistant at SharpCare Coronado. “Now we have a voice to improve patient care. Now we’ll be able to provide our loved ones a better, more stable future. That’s a win–win!”
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 administrative service representatives, medical administrative assistants, and care coordinators.
Throughout the San Diego area, healthcare workers are unionizing in record numbers. In addition to the 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.1 Sharp HealthCare’s CEO made $2.6 million in compensation in 2023.2
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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. Learn more at www.seiu-uhw.org.
1 Fiscal Year 2023 audited consolidated financial statements, Sharp HealthCare, retrieved from https://emma.msrb.org/P11725804-P11326498-P11760162.pdf
2 Form 990, Fiscal Year 2023, Sharp HealthCare.