Radio ads featuring the ongoing attempt to privatize Jackson Health System’s Emergency Room services are currently being featured on stations throughout South Florida! Click on the Links Below to Listen to the Radio Ad! Click Here to Listen in English Click Here to Listen in Spanish
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Watch the Video: “Outsourcing Wrong For Jackson, Wrong For the Community”
THE MIAMI HERALD GETS IT WRONG!…Send a Letter to the Editor Today!
The Miami Herald wrote an outrageous and misleading editorial on Sunday calling our campaign to stop the privatization of Jackson’s Emergency Room Services and Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center a …“red herring” and…“hysterical” and… “just noise that does nothing to help those who need care.”
Jackson Board Votes to Continue Privatization Plans Despite Outraged Community
Thanks to all of you who showed your support for Jackson’s ER today at the Financial Recovery Board meeting. It was a standing-room only crowd and the huge turnout of more than 200 people showed just how much this community cares about Jackson’s ER and preserving our hospital’s mission of providing one single standard of care to everyone in the community.
Police Officers and Fire Rescue Join Our Fight to Keep Jackson’s ER Public!
Police and firefighters held a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 12th, outside Ryder Trauma Center to oppose plans to privatize Jackson’s Emergency Room services and Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center. “We don’t serve bankers, we don’t serve lobbyists, we serve patients,” City of Miami firefighter Troy Sutton said. “Don’t allow big money to privatize our public hospital or patients will suffer.”
Read Member Carol Ann Robley’s Miami Herald Letter to the Editor!
Posted on Fri, Sep. 07, 2012 Keep Jackson ER public Thank you for your Sept. 4 article Female leaders object to outsourcing staff for rape treatment center at Jackson Health System. I work as a nurse practitioner at the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center, and we see an average of 35 to 40 sexual-assault victims eachContinue reading “Read Member Carol Ann Robley’s Miami Herald Letter to the Editor!”
Stop The Attempt to Privatize Jackson’s ER! — FRB Meeting, Sept. 13th at 9 a.m.
Jackson’s Financial Recovery Board will be discussing the privatization of Emergency Room Services, including the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center, at their meeting on Thursday, Sept. 13th at 9 a.m.
Community Activists Join Forces to Stop ER Privatization Plans
A coalition of community activists joined forces on Friday, Aug. 31st to stop Jackson management’s dangerous proposals to privatize our hospital’s Emergency Room services, including the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center.
Management Claims Jackson Can’t Afford COLAs – But Overlooked $7 Million in Savings
Management stated that Jackson currently has no money in its budget for cost of living adjustments (COLA) or step increases, but we pointed out that they didn’t take into account a potential $7 million in additional funds that will be generated from our union’s hospital efficiencies and/or contract concessions negotiated in the current contract. Today’sContinue reading “Management Claims Jackson Can’t Afford COLAs – But Overlooked $7 Million in Savings”
Fill Out Our Online Hurricane Pay Form!
Management has unilaterally changed the way we are paid during a hurricane and other emergency periods. While we have filed a grievance and arbitration is scheduled for October 30th, 2012, we want to be informed of the individual violations that may occur prior to the arbitrator’s ruling. Please submit your information via our online form.