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Attention SEIU NV Election Nominees, please fill out the attached candidate form. Candidate Forms and the optional candidate statement of no more than 200 words must be returned to the SEIU Union Hall no later than 2pm, Saturday, May 4th.
Important Legislative Update: Take Action TODAY!
Legislators heard our strong opposition to Assembly Bill 484 yesterday. This legislation would enable Clark County Commissioners to create a new subsidiary corporation that UMC would fall under.
This new corporation would be the new employer of all current employees.
Several UMC SEIU members testified giving their heart felt reasons why they oppose this potentially damaging and unnecessary legislation. Clark County Commissioners Giunchigliani, Collins and Weekly also testified to caution of the unintended consequences a governance change could have.Though there wasn’t a lot of public support of the legislation today, we know that there are a lot of behind-the-scenes discussions going on.AB 484 diverts the discussion from focusing on the core issue of identifying and implementing a dedicated revenue stream. Now this committee will hold a work session tomorrow where they will make a decision as to whether or not this legislation moves to the next step. Take action and phone your legislator today!
Call Assembly Health and Human Service Committee Members Today!
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Call 486-2626 and talk to your legislator today!
It’s important that they know that you don’t support A.B. 484!
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee will hear our safe staffing bill on Tuesday, April 2 at 3:30 p.m.
It’s critical that lawmakers hear from you about why safe staffing will lead to greater patient protection and improved quality care in Nevada.
If you’re able to attend the hearing in person, it is in the Legislative Building, Room 2149, Carson City. If you’re in Southern Nevada, you can attend the meeting and provide testimony via videoconference. The meeting is in Room 4412 of the Grant Sawyer State Building, 555 W. Washington Ave., Las Vegas.
Wear your work uniform and come tell lawmakers why safe staffing is so critical.
Health care workers know one of the best tools in their protective arsenal are Assignment Despite Objection forms.
They protect licenses and careers.
Whenever, in your professional opinion, conditions on the floors are unsafe for patients and employees, an ADO form should be filled out, submitted to a supervisor and faxed to the Union.
This could protect you if a mistake or sentinel event occurs while working in those conditions. Over time, ADO forms illustrate the broad frequency of sub-optimal conditions. They illustrate the need for Staffing Ratios! That’s why on March 4, SEIU members from Valley, Desert Springs, UMC and St. Rose hospitals submitted hundreds of ADOs to Nevada’s Bureau of Health Care and Quality Compliance. Separately, SEIU members at Sunrise, Mountain View and Southern Hills hospitals have begun moving staffing issues through the HCA-SEIU Labor Accord process.
With the SEIU Safe Staffing and Patient Protection bill sponsored by state Sen. Patricia Spearman and moving through the Nevada Legislature, We Are On The Move to WIN Staffing Ratios in Nevada!
Katrina Alvarez-Hyman, an RN at Desert Springs, said the detail on ADO forms offer clear protection for health care workers. “We need to keep filling them out,” she said. “Our licenses and patients’ lives are in jeopardy.”
The Bureau of Health Care and Quality Compliance is entrusted with protecting the safety and welfare of the public through the promotion and advocacy of quality health care through licensing, regulation, enforcement and education. Sparked by our ADOs, the agency began its review of Valley, Desert Springs, UMC and St. Rose hospitals on March 4.
It’s a new year, but the same old bill trying to privatize UMC is back again.
On Dec. 18, 2012, the county delayed a vote on the measure for the third time. Commissioners expressed different degrees of dissatisfaction with it.
Thus, we will be back again on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 2 p.m. to stand up for the public’s only health care safety net.
For some reason a strange procedural move by Commissioner Steve Sisolak kept the horrible proposal alive for a vote this year.
So now we’re forced back to the Commission where, by then, maybe the county manager and hospital CEO have figured out a new way to screw our workers. Simply put, the bill would allow for the sale of UMC and would end collective bargaining going forward. It also takes the hospital’s business behind closed doors in a privatization that would harm the community’s right to know what’s happening at the only public hospital in the state.
That’s why we’re vowing to scrap this entire bill. If we can’t end this talk at the County Commission, we’ll have to fight it in Carson City — against the powerful lobbyists hired by the county. But we will prevail. Nothing is more important to the community’s health care stability and our thousands of workers at UMC than a long-term discussion about how to designate a funding stream to pay for indigent care.
That’s why we’ll be out in purple force again in the new year.
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