SEIU 121RN

Want to Make a Big Difference for Nurses?

Want to make a difference in your future workplace and help your co-workers? Becoming a Local 121RN officer or delegate is an excellent way to serve your fellow nurses and be an integral part of our Union. Nominations are now being accepted for the next President, Vice President and Secretary Treasurer of SEIU Local 121RN. Terms of current President Gayle Batiste, Northridge; Vice President Jeannie King, Pomona Valley; and Secretary/Treasurer Becky Long, Los Robles, expire December 31, 2010. Members will vote on those nominated and the new officers will serve from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013.

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Arbitrator Orders HCA to Negotiate With SEIU Over Mandatory Flu Vaccination or Mask Policy

An arbitrator ordered Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) to bargain with SEIU Local 121RN and SEIU United Healthcare Workers over its 2009 mandatory policy that employees receive an H1N1 and seasonal flu inoculation or wear a surgical mask when working with patients.

This win represents a substantial victory for HCA workers as the ruling declares that even with a management rights clause in the contract, there are checks on management’s behavior. In our case, management must make decisions in ways which do not interfere with employee rights as spelled out in our contract.

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Barlow Management Sticks to Puny Raise Offer

July 20, 2010 - Our joint SEIU Local 121RN and United Healthcare Workers (UHW) Bargaining Team is united — united in mutual disgust at Barlow management’s economic offer for our new contract. Our Unions made a reasonable proposal that would allow Barlow to recruit and retain experienced RNs and healthcare workers.

But, not only did Barlow management offer us mostly nothing for pay raises, but they want us to agree to a two-tiered wage system that will give new workers even less incentive to work here. Why would we do that?

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HCA Nurses & Healthcare Workers United!

June 18, 2010 - Hundreds of Registered Nurses and other healthcare workers waved signs and walked the sidewalk in front of Riverside Community Hospital, West Hills Hospital & Medical Center, and Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center June 16 through 18 in a show of solidarity for worker safety issues our members want added to our collective bargaining agreements.

The hospitals’ owner, HCA, has not agreed to proposals by our Local 121RN Bargaining Team that would provide lift and transport teams to help move patients and heavy equipment, guarantee a nurse has 8 hours off between calls if needed due to fatigue, and provide additional staff to keep nurses and other workers within state mandated ratios, even during their breaks and meal periods.

So Cal Nurses and Healthcare Workers Picket for Safe Staffing

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Nurses Take Advantage of Low Cost CEUs

About 125 nurses from various Southern California hospitals took advantage of the Documentation Saves Careers class offered by SEIU Local 121RN. Participating nurses earned 7 continuing education credits to put toward renewing their license.

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SIGN UP TO BE A HEALTHCARE ADVOCATE!

Here’s an opportunity for anyone, not just SEIU Local 121RN members, to think globally by acting locally.

SEIU Local 121RN Registered Nurses are currently fighting for the safety of patients and the nurses themselves through negotiations with HCA management and lawyers. But Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) hasn’t agreed to spend any of their millions of dollars in profits on making sure that nurses at three local hospitals are not caring for more patients than they can handle, staffing their pharmacies in accordance with how many patients are being served, and maintaining trained staff to help lift and transport patients.

It’s not that HCA doesn’t have the money to make needed changes. According to the Wall Street Journal, HCA just paid out $500 million to stockholders in the past month.

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SEIU Elects Mary Kay Henry to Lead 2.2 Million Member Union

May 8, 2010 —The 73-member International Executive Board (IEB) of the Service Employees International Union met in Washington DC Saturday to elect Executive Vice President Mary Kay Henry the 10th president of the nation’s fastest-growing union.

“This moment marks a renewed commitment to our union’s core mission: to improve the lives of all workers who are struggling to make ends meet in this economy,” Henry said. “Working people are facing hardships we haven’t seen in generations, and we believe SEIU can be an even more effective vehicle for change to help them improve their lives and the lives of the people they serve.

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What’s included in this issue:
Norma Torres Shadows Pomona Valley Nurse
HCA Nurses Win 3-Year Fight for Denied Step Raises
Encino Nurses Win Through Grievance Process
Union Finds St. Joseph Nurses Owed Money
Positive Changes Upcoming at Barlow
Kaiser-Moreno Valley Prepares for Bargaining
HCA Nurses Fight Take-Aways
NCLEX-RN Exam Made More Difficult to Pass
JFK Stewards Graduate from Training
You Know You’re a Nurse When…

Union Finds More St. Joe Nurses Owed Money

April 19, 2010 -- SEIU Local 121RN found that more Providence St. Joseph Medical Center nurses were owed money for several reasons. Management settled the disputes just prior to arbitration that was scheduled for April 16, 2010. First, nearly 200 registered nurses were owed back pay because their wage did not reflect their number of years of nursing experience. In another case, RNs did not receive a separate raise for completing a level of the Clinical Ladder program.

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Norma Torres Shadows Local 121RN Nurse at Pomona Valley Hospital

Friday, March 19, 2010 – When Assemblymember Norma Torres, D-Ontario, arrived at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center last Friday, she looked a little scared. That’s when she admitted that she was nervous about following an SEIU Local 121RN registered nurse as part of the national SEIU “Walk a Day in My Shoes” program.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Torres said after learning she would be in the Labor & Delivery department rather than the Intensive Care Unit as originally planned. “By walking a day in the shoes of a nurse, I saw the tremendous amount of physical and mental stress nurses face. Workloads can change drastically without notice and the joy of helping deliver a newborn can quickly shift to the anguish of helping someone deal with the end of life.”

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