Stephanie Ellis, MSW, is a community health counselor at Jackson North Community Mental Health Center. Ellis previously worked at Barry University and Miami Bridge. When she came to Jackson more than ten years ago, she joined Local 1991 in orientation due to some good advice from her mother, who spent 30 years as a clerkContinue reading “Steward Stories – Stephanie Ellis”
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Steward Stories — Nadine Bazan-Sanchez
Nadine Bazan-Sanchez, RN, has been a nurse at Jackson for 23 years, mostly in the NICU on the main campus. Sanchez originally hails from New York, of Haitian and Jamaican extract. He father worked at Jackson as an interpreter and she entered nursing school there. “I’ve always been a Jackson girl,” she says. The motherContinue reading “Steward Stories — Nadine Bazan-Sanchez”
Bargaining Team Election Forms
Negotiations are coming up for the 2014-2017 contract later this year. Local 1991 is holding an election for the bargaining team from a variety of areas within each bargaining unit (RNs, professionals and attending physicians). Nominations are open from May 16 to May 23.
Steward Stories – Esther Cazo
Esther Cazo, RN, is a nurse in the OR at Jackson South Community Hospital and a steward of the month. A Cuban-American, Cazo was born in New York, but raised in Miami since the age of ten. She got involved in the union about a year ago, largely because her coworkers kept coming to her withContinue reading “Steward Stories – Esther Cazo”
Steward Toolbox
Stewards are the heart of our SEIU Local 1991 family. Below are links to tools you can use and success stories from your fellow stewards.
Steward Stories – Hiram Ruberte
Hiram Ruberte is an enrollment specialist at Jackson. Born in Puerto Rico, but raised in Miami, he’s been a SEIU Local 1991 member for six years and steward for about a year. What got him active was that he was seen as a leader in his department by his coworkers and they kept pushing him toContinue reading “Steward Stories – Hiram Ruberte”
Nurse/Hospital Week Events
Affordable Care Campaign Moving Forward
The 8 million people enrolled in marketplace coverage are living proof that the new healthcare law is working– and it’s working for all of us. We all benefit when insurance companies can no longer: deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions; charge women more; and cut off coverage when people are in the middle of costly treatments. Democrats andContinue reading “Affordable Care Campaign Moving Forward”
Jackson Workers Put State Rep. Bileca On the Spot
Rep. Michael Bileca wouldn’t respond to the press and refused to meet with us when we showed up at his office to ask him a simple question — Where does he stand on the amendment to take away the County Commission’s final say over labor contracts at Jackson?
Sign Up for Nurse Lobby Day
SEIU Local 1991 will once again be traveling to Tallahassee where we will lobby for healthcare funding, advocate for legislation that will help our patients and fight off damaging bills. This year’s trip is March 26 and 27, 2014. Register by March 10 to participate! Click here to sign up for Nurse Lobby Day! LastContinue reading “Sign Up for Nurse Lobby Day”