On April 30, 404 workers at the Sharp Coronado Hospital in Coronado, California, voted to join the Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), the largest NLRB representation election win of the month of April. For SEIU-UHW, this victory represented another milestone: the organization of the last acute care facility in the Sharp system.

SEIU-UHW has rattled off a slew of large-unit victories in this system, beginning with victories for 1,600 workers at the Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp HospiceCare in 2023. In April 2024, they won certification for 1,100 workers at the Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, and in July 2024, they did the same for 2,000 workers at the Sharp Metropolitan Campus. Together these victories have added more than 5,500 members to SEIU-UHW’s rolls. (Full disclosure: SEIU-UHW is a financial supporter of the Center for Work and Democracy, where I work.)