Swedish health care workers begin three-day strike
Under bright umbrellas and sheer plastic ponchos, striking nurses and other staff gathered in heavy rain outside Swedish Medical Center on First Hill to begin a three-day strike at 7 a.m. Tuesday. More than 200 strikers marched in circles in front of multiple entrances to the hospital, chanting slogans such as “We’re here! We’re strong! We’ll fight for patients all day long!” They cheered raucously when passing cars honked in support. The Service Employees International Union Healthcare 1199NW, which represents the 7,800 registered nurses, caregivers and staff, said the strike would be the largest for health-care workers in recent history. It comes after almost 10 months of bargaining with hospital management. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
Protections proposed in Washington Senate for domestic workers
In 2007, Adriana Cazorla, was working as a maid for an employer who held her against her will and sexually assaulted her, she said Monday as the Senate began considering a bill to protect domestic workers. Cazorla said this same employer also took explicit photos of young women by posing as the owner of a modeling agency. But he was actually selling the photos to other men. Cazorla said when she discovered what he was doing, he threatened to call immigration officers if she reported him. “I’m not scared anymore, a long time ago … I couldn’t tell my story,” said Cazorla, a former domestic worker who now has a green card and is a legal resident. Continue reading at The Spokesman-Review. (Jim Camden / The Spokesman-Review)
Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook
ver suspect the Facebook app is listening to you? What we now know is even creepier. Facebook is giving us a new way to glimpse just how much it knows about us: On Tuesday, the social network made a long-delayed “Off-Facebook Activity” tracker available to its 2 billion members. It shows Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don’t need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts — they’re all up in your business countless other ways. Continue reading at The Washington Post. (Washington Post Illustration/iStock)
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