[Antiracism] Workers' Rights Board Hearing 7/10

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Thursday July 10

      FRANKLIN MEDICAL CENTER NURSES TESTIFY TO WORKERS' RIGHTS BOARD 

      6-7:30pm, First Congregational Church, 43
<http://maps.yahoo.com/index.php#mvt=m&lat=42.605106&lon=-72.583472&zoom=14&
q1=43%20Silver%20St%2C%20Greenfield%2C%20MA%2001301>  Silver St, at Eastern
Av, Greenfield (774-3449). The Church is at the Route 2A end of Silver St.
Rt 2A is easily reached off I-91 or Rt 2. Enter parking lot off Eastern
Avenue. Enter at rear - use first door you pass when entering lot. Attendees
are asked to come fragrance-free.

 

A panel of the Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board
will take the testimony of nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in
Greenfield and issue a report on collective bargaining there. Ann Lewin RN
will conduct the testimony by BFMC nurses and also provide basic
information. She is the MNA Senior Chair at BFMC. A nurse for 26 years, she
has been at BFMC for 6 years. 

      Across the US, Workers' Rights Boards act as "the conscience of the
community" regarding labor relations, exposing employers' misconduct and
also helping workers form unions and reach collective bargaining contracts.
There is more information at http://www.jwj.org/projects/wrb.html. The
Western Mass. Jobs with Justice Workers' Rights Board consists of two dozen
"public citizens" in Western Massachusetts.  The following are on the July
10 panel: 

      Anne Awad, President/CEO, Caring Health Center Inc (Springfield);
Health Systems Consultant; Amherst Select Person

      Mary Lavo Ford, Non-profit Manager; former Outreach Director,
Community Health Center of Franklin County; former Mayor of Northampton

      Ward Morehouse, co-founder, Program on Corporations, Law, and
Democracy; Shays2: WMass Committee on Corporations and Democracy

      Rev. Armand Proulx, Second Congregational Church of Greenfield 

      Al Siano, Greenfield City Councilor

      Miryam Ehrlich Williamson, Medical Writer; former Warwick Select Board
member 

      The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) has been bargaining a new
contract at Baystate Franklin Medical Center (BFMC) since October 2007. The
employer, Baystate Health in Springfield, is showing an anti-union animus at


the bargaining table. It hired Howard Bloom from the well-known
union-busting law firm, Jackson Lewis (http://www.jacksonlewis.com/). More
at

http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/for-profit-union-
busters/jackson-lewis-20071018-313-254.html. Info: 827-0301,
wmjwj at wmjwj.org. 

 

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Western Mass Jobs with Justice
640 Page Blvd #101
Springfield MA 01104
(413) 827-0301 

 

Founded in 1987, Jobs with Justice <http://www.jwj.org/> 's mission is to
improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and
protect workers' right to organize. We believe workers' rights are human
rights and to be successful, we have to be part of a larger campaign for
economic and social justice. 

 

To that end, "J with J" has created a national coalition and a network of
local coalitions that connect labor, community, student, and faith-based
organizations and activists on workplace and community social justice
campaigns.  Western Mass JwJ - founded June 5, 1993 - is now a coalition of
almost 60 organizations. 

 

WMJwJ publishes the following mobilization emails:

 

[Workers' Rights] posts opportunities for you to learn about and show
solidarity with workplace and working class struggles. And these events are
opportunities for JwJ members to fulfill their pledge:
<http://www.jwj.org/pledge.html> "I'll be there for workers' rights at least
five times a year!" This is the core mission of Jobs with Justice
(www.jwj.org <http://www.jwj.org/> ), affirming that workers' rights are
human rights. To subscribe, send an email to wmjwj at wmjwj.org with a Subject
of "Subscribe Worker's Rights". 

 

[Health Care Action] posts events and information that support the large and
vibrant Western Mass. movement for health care justice. Nationwide, Jobs
with Justice (www.jwj.org <http://www.jwj.org/> ) has prioritized Health
Care as a basic human right. To subscribe, send an email to wmjwj at wmjwj.org
with a Subject of "Subscribe Health Care Action".

 

[People's History] posts events and other information related to a people's
history of Western Mass. To subscribe, send an email to wmjwj at wmjwj.org with
a Subject of "Subscribe People's History".

 

[Solidarity Calendar] posts other events of interest to the Western Mass.
coalition.  To subscribe, send an email to wmjwj at wmjwj.org with a Subject of
"Subscribe Solidarity Calendar".

 

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