Disclosure: I work at SEIU as the Online Organizer for the Healthcare Division.

By a more than 2-to-1 margin, workers at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO voted this week to make SEIU Healthcare Missouri/Kansas their union. The landslide victory, with a vote of 285 to 136, unites nearly 600 more HCA-affiliated hospital workers in SEIU Healthcare. They join the workers at Kansas City-area Menorah Medical Center who joined SEIU just weeks ago.

"The election was a very moving experience," remarked Arthur Dawkins, an EVS Tech at Research Medical Center. "This week a majority of us stood together and with a united voice we said to management that we want to sit down and talk about improvements."

Already, workers are filling out contract surveys and talking about their priorities for bargaining.