[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] Senate Bill Undermines Safe Staffing!

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

From: Diane Scherrer [mailto:dscherrer at mnarn.org] 

Urgent! Call your Senator ASAP! Please share widely! 

 

Last night the state Senate released a dramatically harmful version of our
safe staffing bill that is actually worse than the current situation we now
face. The bill, Senate bill 2805, continues to place hospital administrators
in charge of setting their own staffing levels, with provisions that
actually undermine existing collective bargaining rights and protections
many nurses have fought for regarding staffing and mandatory overtime. A
vote on this bill is scheduled for tomorrow. 

 

We are outraged at the Senate's action and we urge you to call your senator
today to voice your opposition to the Senate's action and to demand that
they support legislation that includes an enforceable limit on nurses'
patient assignments. 

 

Please call the state house at 617-722-2000 and ask to be connected to your
Senator.

 

Diane Scherrer, RN 

Western MA Community Organizer

Division of Legislation

Massachusetts Nurses Association 

CELL: 781-363-3817

"Without good and careful nursing many must suffer greatly, and probably
perish, that might have been restored to health and comfort, and become
useful to themselves, their families, and the public, for many years after."
~Benjamin Franklin (1751)

 

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