Standing With The Nurses

Statement

Recently, the nurses at Universal Health Service's Spring Valley hospital filed for an election to form a union with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). These nurses are some of the best in the country and work hard every day to ensure we are healthy. After years of taking care of us, it's time for us to help them.

These nurses have encountered a rough week trying to ensure a fair vote on whether to unionize. On Wednesday, nine nurses were kicked off the hospital floor for wearing buttons supporting the union. The administrators at the hospital felt the buttons were "disruptive". What is disruptive is removing nine highly skilled nurses from taking care of patients when we have a major nursing shortage in this state and the country.

I am standing 100% with the nurses and believe they have a right to organize and fight for fair wages, better work conditions and a higher quality of healthcare to be offered to patients. I hope you join me by signing my online petition in the diary asking Spring Valley Hospital to abide by the following conduct:

• Management should not offer any opinions to the nurses or employees about their decision to join together and form a union. The nurses are professional, mature and highly skilled employees who are entrusted each and every day with life and death decisions. Surely, if you trust them to care for our community when it comes to matters of life and death; you can trust them to make their own educated decision about whether or not to vote for a union.
• Absolutely no mandatory meetings that intimidate or discourage nurses from supporting the union.
• No anti-union literature or propaganda aimed at confusing employees or worse, misleading them about the reality of what unionization means.
• No stalling at all on moving ahead with the election 42 days from when the petition was filed.

Join me as we stand with our nurses and ask that the hospital act in good faith as these nurses consider whether to form a union. After years of service to us, they have earned our respect and trust. We are standing with the nurses.

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