Support workers at American Red Cross (ARC) Blood Services in Toledo!
If you donate blood in Toledo, you know the hard workers of ARC; they work for long hours, sometimes short-staffed, to fulfill the needs of our community. They collect the blood donated by generous volunteers, and then ARC Blood Services sells this blood to area hospitals.
The Blood Services division of American Red Cross is separate from the disaster relief division. So, when you are being solicited for donations to assist in times of catastrophe, those donations are strictly for that.
Blood services workers provide a valuable, important service to our community. You may think American Red Cross would honor this service by offering its workers livable wages, affordable health care, and decent working conditions...but this is not the case.
It seems that Executives at American Red Cross Blood Services are trying to downgrade these important jobs by demanding workers accept an insurance plan that bosses can change whenever they want. These Execs don't seem to care about the sacrifices workers have made to keep an affordable insurance plan. And it's not just demands on the health care that aren't fair; Execs also have unfair demands about wages, staffing, and decency.
ARC is trying to break workers' unions in Toledo, Buffalo, Michigan, Connecticut, California, and many places in between. It seems like they are hoping to force these workers to strike. These workers don't want to strike, they want to continue working to provide for their families and our communities.