They Don’t Really Want You to Vote.
Leftists aren’t the reason Dems lose.
As I logged into the Howard Brown Clinic’s Patient Portal to check in for my STI screening, I was greeted with a cheery reminder: Studies show that voters have better health outcomes than non-voters. Register to vote today using our Vote-ER platform!
It was a funny message coming from an organization that for the last two years has done everything in its power to block organizing workers from voting to unionize, including retaliatory layoffs and the fostering of a quote “toxic culture.” These maneuvers were finally thwarted in May when workers at Howard Brown ratified a contract guaranteeing an average pay increase of 7%, health insurance for part-time employees, two weeks of paid leave for gender-affirming care procedures, and protections against layoffs.
And it wasn’t just “voting” that secured employees these benefits, of course. When clinic executives repeatedly walked away from the negotiation table, workers at Howard Brown went on multiple days-long strikes, with over 400 employees picketing outside of clinic and Brown Elephant resale shop locations and grinding business as usual to a halt. It was…
