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More than two dozen stewards gathered last week for an all-day workshop held at Local 1991 offices in Miami Gardens.
“It was very informative and empowering,” said Esther Cazo, RN, a clinical staff nurse from the Jackson South OR who attended the workshop.
Safe staffing and patient safety are our top concerns as healthcare professionals. You can have a direct effect on Jackson’s staffing decisions by joining the campaign to report every instance where patient safety could be compromised by insufficient staffing. Below …
This Thursday is the steward training session for anyone who has not received it. You will find it enlightening and empowering! The March 21 session begins at 8:30 a.m. with breakfast and runs until 5 p.m. If you have not …
Management has unilaterally changed the way we are paid during a hurricane and other emergency periods. While we have filed a grievance and arbitration is scheduled for October 30th, 2012, we want to be informed of the individual violations that may occur prior to the arbitrator’s ruling. Please submit your information via our online form.
SEIU Local 1991 scored a major victory in winning a class-action grievance for OR on-call nurses after management had violated a longstanding past practice for compensating nurses in the OR who were on-call. The union had filed a grievance and …
After a thorough analysis of the layoff notifications in the SEIU bargaining unit, a team of SEIU Local 1991 members led by President Martha Baker, RN, has discovered that the massive layoff of 426 RNs at Jackson Memorial Hospital was most likely initiated by a math error.
Management has violated our contract by implementing an ill-conceived layoff plan. The process has become unnecessarily cumbersome and has brought added confusion to an already difficult time at Jackson. Over 400 (CSN) staff nurses system-wide have received layoff letters. However, management is creating 300 or so part-time CSN positions.
We believe these part-time positions should have been filled via the reassignment process, which would have avoided hundreds of layoffs. Needless to say, management has gone forward with the plan and we must survive.
At the link below, you will find a complaint form to complete if you have any serious information to report regarding the Public Health Trust. There are certain provisions under both Florida law and the Miami-Dade County Code that protect …
Jackson’s management has once again shown a tremendous lack of respect for frontline caregivers and other employees by not discussing the layoff plan with us or seeking input before issuing the devastating and life-changing layoff letters to employees.
IT IS MANAGEMENT’S RESPONSIBILITY TO MANAGE ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR REMARKABLY ILL-CONCEIVED LAYOFF PLAN!
SEIU Local 1991 has won a class-action grievance for OR on-call nurses!
Management had violated a longstanding past practice for compensating nurses in the OR who were on-call. The union had filed a grievance and the issue was resolved on Monday, March 26th, with management recognizing the past practice. The settlement affects nurses who work an on-call shift and their next scheduled shift falls within 11.5 hours of their on-call shift. Their next shift is to be covered with AD time, not PL time.
Fed up with management’s refusal to listen to their concerns, hundreds of Jackson employees packed a public hearing today to warn Miami Dade County Commissioners about the devastating consequences of mass layoffs. Above: Yaakov Reif, RN, and his fellow coworkers from TICU spoke before commissioners during the special hearing on Jackson.
It’s time for our elected officials to do the right thing and PROTECT patient care at our public hospital and PRESERVE the services our community depends on! Above: President Martha Baker, RN, urges the crowds to put pressure on elected officials to save Jackson at our press conference on March 6th.
We have received some more specific information that includes job classifications on the layoffs announced last week. Click here to see the job classifications in the SEIU bargaining units that are on Carlos Migoya’s layoff plan.
Chairman Joe Martinez grants our union’s request for a public hearing as hundreds of Jackson employees, patients and community supporters rally on March 6th outside the Miami-Dade Commission Meeting!
To clarify the agreement that was reached with management regarding furloughs, the following is actual language in the Memorandum of Understanding that was reached between SEIU Local 1991 and Jackson Health System: · Management has announced its intention to furlough …
Be sure to attend our upcoming bargaining session on Thursday, Jan. 26th at 10 a.m, DTC 270!
More than 200 Jackson caregivers packed DTC 270 on Thursday, Dec. 22nd to discuss the disastrous effects of furloughs with Chief Nursing Executive Ric Cuming and other hospital administrators.
Today, management issued a revised absenteeism policy without bargaining with the union. We immediately notified management and demanded that they bargain over any changes to the policy. Despite Carlos Migoya’s and Ric Cuming’s irresponsible actions and indefensible remarks regarding the …
