StoryCorps Northwest: Surviving the Khmer Rouge

Fauluaina Pritchard and Sinoun Hem

Millions died under Cambodia’s communist regime. Sinoun Hem, of Tacoma, was a young girl when the Khmer Rouge came to power. She tells her friend Fauluaina Pritchard her about how she was taken from her family and forced into a child work camp.

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Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma has been around for 70 years. Physicians there are now attempting to form a union. (Credit: Lauren Gallup // NWPB)

Tacoma physicians are trying to unionize

Joining a growing trend, physicians at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma are trying to unionize.
“ We really want to be able to have a voice, have a seat at the table and work with them and be a little bit more collaborative. And we think this unionization effort is the best way to do that,” said  Derek Tam, a pediatric emergency physician at the hospital.

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