Chicago’s Howard Brown Health Workers Are Organizing a Union
Workers at the Chicago nonprofit LGBTQ health provider Howard Brown say management has not prioritized what’s best for either patients or workers — and that they’re organizing a union to change that.
Howard Brown workers are currently voting to form a union. (Howard Brown Health Workers United)
Since December 2021, workers at Howard Brown Health, a nonprofit LGBTQ health care provider in Chicago, have been organizing with the Illinois Nurses Association (INA). Around 475 employees are currently voting on whether to form a union, and ballots will be counted on August 9. Nurses at the facility already voted to join the INA in 2019.
Brynn Schaal spoke with TiJuan Flemming, a former behavioral health provider who left Howard Brown in June, and Rose Sawyer, a trans and gender-nonconforming youth hormone navigator who is also part of the union organizing committee.
Brynn Schaal
What are your primary motivations for organizing?
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