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Prominent Hispanic Health Care Advocates to Hold a Town Hall Meeting on the “Domino Effect of Healthcare Inequality”
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Florida will host a town hall meeting on healthcare disparities in South Florida and call for Congress to pass health care reform legislation that includes a public option that provides high quality, affordable

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6/23/2009

Mayor Manny Diaz, Commissioner Heyman, Rep. Brisé, Community Health Leaders and Healthcare Workers Push for Healthcare Reform
As Congress prepares for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s long-awaited healthcare overhaul bill, American Health Choices Act, to be introduced, a bipartisan group of city, county, and state officials joined together with leaders from Borinquen Health Care Center, Ja

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6/9/2009

Jupiter Caregivers to Hand Deliver Federal Charges Against Courtyard Gardens for Illegally Targeting Workers for Dismissal
A group of newly-unemployed caregivers, some with more than 20 years’ experience, will deliver an unfair labor practice charge to Courtyard Gardens, a Palm Beach healthcare company, at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, June 10 at 17781 Thelma Avenue in Jupiter. The

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6/8/2009

Jupiter Caregivers Rally to Keep Jobs Amidst Growing Support by Clergy, Elected Officials and Residents’ Families
New nursing home owner could force more than 100 experienced caregivers out of their jobs and deny frail seniors and people with disabilities quality care from workers they know and trust.

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5/29/2009

Caregivers Laud Reinstatement of Safe Staffing Ratios in Florida’s Nursing Homes
Nursing home workers from across the state are relieved that the safe staffing ratio, which was suspended in 2008, has been reinstated. Enforcement of the minimum requirement of 2.9 hours of care during a 24 hour period will begin July 1, 2009.

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5/8/2009

Florida Nurse to participate in White House Spanish-Language Town Hall on H1N1 Virus (Swine Flu)
Patricia Sheran-Diaz, RN, a University Hospital nurse and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Florida member, will participate in an important White House outreach initiative on the H1N1 virus on Friday, May 8, 2009 from 12:15pm-1:30pm

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5/8/2009

Senators Hill and Sobel, Community Leaders, Health Care Workers to Discuss the Future of Healthcare Reform
On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Florida members will host a roundtable discussion “At Last: Making Healthcare Reform a Reality: The Future of Quality, Affordable Healthcare for All” from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

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5/5/2009

SEIU Calls on House Leaders to Protect the Elderly, Stop Playing Shell Game with Healthcare Dollars
In spite of available funding and unified opposition from the nursing home industry, SEIU, the AARP and other leading healthcare advocates, leaders in Florida’s House of Representatives are still threatening to make devastating cuts to the state’s healthc

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4/7/2009

Four Florida Representatives Stand Up for Florida’s Workers Rights to Improve their Wages, Healthcare, and Job Security
Representatives Oscar Braynon, Kelly Skidmore, Bill Heller, and Adam Fetterman showed unequivocal support for Florida’s workers and their families by voting to reject House Joint Resolution 1013, also known as the “Save Our Secret Ballot” amendment.

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3/12/2009

SEIU Florida Statement on Employee Free Choice
“Today’s announcement by House Majority Leader Adam Hasner (R-Delray Beach) and Senator Garrett Richter (R-Naples) to file House Joint Resolution (HJR) 1013 threatens to erode all workers’ freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to form a union.

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3/11/2009