[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights/Health Care Action] Rally for Patient Safety

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Tuesday May 6
	CELEBRATE NATIONAL NURSES DAY & RALLY FOR PATIENT SAFETY
	10am-2pm, Boston.  
	GET ON THE FREE BUS: Leaving Pot Pourri Plaza, 243 King St,
Northampton (opposite Stop & Shop) at 6:30am and Plantation Inn, Chicopee
(opposite Mass Pike Exit 6) at 7:15am. Contact Heather at the Mass Nurses
Assn Region 1 office today to reserve a seat: 584-4607 or region1 at mnarn.org.
Please get there ten minutes early for check in, and coffee!
	10am to Noon: Nurses, nursing students, and supporters of nurses
will convene in Hynes Convention Center for inspiring speeches by
Grammy-award winning singer Patti LaBelle and renowned health care
journalist Suzanne Gordon. Free food, transportation, and great prizes.
Grand prize is a $2,500 scholarship!
	1 to 2pm: Make your voice heard during a rally on the State House
steps for safe patient limits. See
www.massnurses.org/safe_care/Safe_Staffing.   
	
Can't make the rally? 
	Call your State Representative and Senator at (617) 722-2000 and let
them know that you care. Ask them to support a vote on HB 2059, The Patient
Safety Act (to require the Department of Public Health to set a limit on the
number of patients a nurse has to care for at one time). 
	Or click here: www.unionvoice.org/campaign/patientsafetyactnow.
 
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