BrownDale Brown
Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center

I’ve been with Inter-Con at Kaiser South Sacramento for a year. I’m constantly worried about getting sick. Working in a hospital, I’m exposed to illness and danger all the time. Without paid sick leave , Inter-con officers either have financial hardship if we take off of work , or are forced to work while sick . If I were to have to miss even one week I would be in danger of losing my apartment.

I’m a single mother, and the insurance plan is too expensive for me to enroll my 2 children. It would cause me hardship even just to buy the Inter - Con/Kaiser plan for my kids.

Recently I had to tell my daughter that we couldn’t afford to pay for cheerleading or voll e yball because of the low pay—and no raises -- paid at Kaiser to Inter-Con officers. That’s not a situation a parent should ever have to face.

I am fighting for a union because we deserve better. We protect Kaiser and its assets, but Inter-Con isn’t even willing to sit down and hear us out. That is just wrong.