Workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center, a nonprofit organization that provides healthcare services to low-income patients, hit the streets today.
At this afternoon’s action outside of the clinic’s main health center at 240 Shotwell St., near 16th and South Van Ness, dozens of health workers put on red union shirts, grabbed signs and picketed on the sidewalk for more than an hour.
Former District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, who now works for the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), is representing the healthcare workers, whom he rallied during the lunch hour on Tuesday.
Mission Neighborhood Health Center’s second clinic lies in his district, near Mission and Francis Street in the Excelsior.