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Florida Hospital Patient Protection Acts — HB 1283 / S 2316

Call your state legislator and urge them to pass safe staffing for nurses in Florida's hospitals!
(866) 210-3678

Tell Florida’s legislators we want them to pass a safe staffing law that will:

Save lives with safe RN-to-patient ratios
Win the right to act as a patient advocate
Allow us to practice your profession with whistle-blower protections

Click here to read the bill in full detail.

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SEIU Nurse Lobby Day: April 21-22

Nurse Lobby Day

April 21-22, 2010
Tallahassee

Click here to register online.

Join colleagues and friends from across the state for our annual day of action, advocacy and lobbying in Tallahassee.

SEIU Healthcare Florida will pay travel expenses for our members to attend the two¬ day lobbying blitz on April 21 and 22, 2010. We will lobby our elected legislators for healthcare funding and to pass The Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act HB 1283 / S 2316. Members who would like to attend must be COPE contributors.

Stay tuned to www.SEIUhealthcareFL.org for more details! If you would like to sign up for Nurse Lobby Day, fill out the online form.

Nursing Home Leaders' Action Brings Us Closer to the Finish Line

After many months of tough negotiations, your SEIU Healthcare Florida bargaining committee and Sea Crest reached a tentative agreement for a new union contract.

We endured a long fight, and we believe the agreement we reached with Sea Crest contains significant improvements, despite negotiating during the worst economic situation we’ve ever seen. In fact, Sea Crest and many other healthcare employers have declared wage freezes for 2010.

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An Update On Jackson Health System’s Financial Crisis

Our sister local, SEIU Local 1991, represents 5,000 registered nurses, attending physicians and healthcare professionals in the Jackson Health System (JHS) and the RNs who work in the health clinic at Florida International University. They are front and center in the fight to save the great institution that is both the safety net and jewel of healthcare excellence in our community.

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SEIU Caregivers Picket Nursing Home Headquarters in Tampa

Dozens of union members from nursing homes across Central Florida marched in Tampa at Sea Crest and Greystone’s corporate headquarters on February 17th.

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Healthcare Reform Update: It's Decision Time

The question congress must, once again, answer: Whose Side Are You On? Will you side with working people who simply want to work hard, provide a decent life for their family, and have their shot at the American dream? Or will you stand with insurance companies who hike premiums just to make an extra buck?

The President’s Healthcare Proposal.
His proposal begins to give working families the health care security they’ve been losing over the past 16 years.

It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today. This helps over 31 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more.

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Haiti Relief: Dispatch from the Frontlines by Executive Board Member Angel Ruiz

As soon as we arrived at the hospital, we were immediately assigned to our units and we joined nurses who had been working without relief for many days. The 200 bed hospital was overflowing with 800 patients sitting or lying in every available space.

Click here to see photos from the frontlines taken by SEIU members

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