Safe staffing and patient safety are our top concerns as healthcare professionals. You can have a direct effect on Jackson’s staffing decisions by joining the campaign to report every instance where patient safety could be compromised by insufficient staffing. Below are the steps you should take if you believe unsafe staffing is occuring in yourContinue reading “Take Action on Safe Staffing”
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Steward Training – March 21
This Thursday is the steward training session for anyone who has not received it. You will find it enlightening and empowering! The March 21 session begins at 8:30 a.m. with breakfast and runs until 5 p.m. If you have not RSVP’d, now is the time to do that. Remember to bring the member list andContinue reading “Steward Training – March 21”
Tallahassee Update Week Two
Tallahassee continues to debate important issues such as healthcare, pensions and voting rights. Read on for summaries of the issues that affect us.
Join Us for March COPE Meetings
Make plans to spend lunch with us next week discussing political issues that affect you during our March COPE meetings. Lunch is provided to participants. This month, we’ll be talking about sequestration, the legislative session in Tallahassee, Medicaid expansion and how you can have an effect on the debate. Jackson Main COPE Meeting Tuesday, MarchContinue reading “Join Us for March COPE Meetings”
Jackson Speaks Out For Ryder
As a union, part of our job is to hold the feet of management to the fire on issues related to quality of care. But we never lose sight of the fact that we must also protect Jackson from external politics that can make that job of providing quality care much harder. For that reason, we have been supporting JHS in its bid to protect Ryder from changes in the trauma landscape that could adversely affect its public mission to provide world-class trauma care to the entire community.
Union Members Testify About Medicaid Expansion
On Feb. 11, SEIU Local 1991 president Martha Baker, RN, and board member Maggie Pena, a social worker, traveled to Tallahassee to testify about the necessity of Medicaid expansion to Jackson Health System.
Joint Statement in Support of Ryder Trauma Center
SEIU Local 1991 president Martha Baker, RN, and JHS president and CEO Carlos Migoya issued a joint statement in support of Ryder Trauma Center. “Protecting the public’s investment by preserving our legal rights to expand Ryder’s trauma system in an era of competition is the right thing to do.”
Uniform Policy Indication Inclusion Still Work in Progress
A packed room of nurses and other healthcare professionals from across the Jackson system greeted management representatives who turned up Jan. 22 to bargain the impact of the new uniform policy proposed by Chief Nursing Officer Ric Cuming, RN.
Budget Deal: The Right Move to Protect Middle Class Families
WASHINGTON, DC — After a deal was reached to avert the fiscal cliff, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: “This deal is the right move to protect America’s middle class families, who were facing a New Year with higher taxes, and to prevent two million AmericansContinue reading “Budget Deal: The Right Move to Protect Middle Class Families”
Petition Telling Congress Get Back to Work and Protect the Middle Class
President Obama, determined to make good on his campaign pledge, is working hard during fiscal cliff negotiations to ensure we extend tax cuts to the middle class. He is doing his job and that’s why today are participating in an online petition drive to Tell Congress To Get Back To Work And Protect The MiddleContinue reading “Petition Telling Congress Get Back to Work and Protect the Middle Class”