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Sign: Rehire Christine! RN labor activist from Charleston
Sign: Rehire Christine, Charleston RN labor activist
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Disrespect for healthcare workers is disrespect for patients and harmful to quality care!
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Healthcare Workers’ United
Charleston, SC
February 27, 2014
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Christine Nelson
South Carolina Activist Fired from Hospital after 19 Years of Service
Christine Nelson, a registered nurse and 19-year veteran at the Medical University of South Carolina was escorted from her office this afternoon after being rebuffed in her efforts to meet with supervisors. In recent weeks, Nelson and several coworkers in the Ambulatory Pre-Op Clinic in Rutledge Tower have complained of mismanagement and understaffing in their department.
An attack on healthcare workers is an attack on quality healthcare and harms our patients. When we stand up for hospital workers, we are standing up for quality health care.
Mary Moultrie, a leader of the Charleston hospital workers strike of 1969, called Nelson’s dismissal “another stain on MUSC’s reputation.” Moultrie observed that the hospital has been very successful in squelching dissent by disciplining “whistleblowers and others who speak out on behalf of patient care.” Charleston labor activist Leonard Riley observed that Nelson has been working with the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission to compile workers’ complaints against MUSC.
Over the past two years, Nelson has spoken out against racial discrimination in the hospital, abuses of the Family Medical Leave Act and HIPAA (federal privacy law) violations by supervisors, as well as the hospital’s mistreatment of low wage workers. Her work to improve working conditions and patient care has led her to assume leadership roles in Healthcare Workers’ United, the South Carolina Progressive Network, and the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE). She has also been active in the Truthful Tuesday Coalition and the Southern Workers Assembly. She accompanied a group of Charleston activists to the HK on J protest in Raleigh, North Carolina on February 8. Nelson is a lifetime member of Old Bethel UMC Church and is the mother of two children.
Healthcare Workers’ United invites you to stand with Chris by demanding that MUSC rehire her and end their efforts to retaliate against those workers who stand up for patients and for one another.
CALL TODAY: Contact MUSC CEO Patrick Cawley (843) 792-4000 or [email protected]
SIGN PETITION AND CALL TODAY TO REINSTATE CHRISTINE!!
North Carolina Local Worker Assemblies
Down East - Saturday, March 8, Wilson, NC, International Working Women's Day
Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts & Education, 1004 Herring Avenue E. Wilson, NC 27893, contact Larsene Taylor at 919-273-2735 for more information
Charlotte - Saturday, April 12, 12noon
Greenville Community Center, 1330 Spring St, Charlotte, NC, Contact Ben Carroll at 919-604-8167 for more information.
Join fast food workers, teachers, bus drivers, city workers, farm workers, state mental health and transportation workers, housekeepers and other workers in a Local Workers Assembly. Workers will speak out about issues on their jobs, the fight for better wages, efforts to organize for more work place union rights and fighting back against cuts by state and city governments.
Workers deserve more. This low wage economy is pushing all wages down, making it harder and harder for workers to get good paying, secure jobs. Workers rights are under attack all across the country, with Southern states leading the way. Racism, sexism and homophobia attack workers and seek to further divide us.
However, there is also a mighty upsurge in worker organizing with fast food workers striking all across the country, Walmart workers holding job actions, teachers and education workers holding walk-in's and protests at schools, state mental health workers challenging their department heads, farm workers are taking on shareholders and city workers have been staging rallies at city halls across the state.
Let's raise our voices and be heard! Let's fight back for jobs and dignity that we deserve! Our power is in our unity.
Hosted by Southern Workers Assembly. This assembly is organized by members of NC Raise Up, UE local 150-NC Public Service Workers Union, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Pitt County Coalition Against Racism (CAR), Black Workers for Justice Women's Commission, NC Association of Educators*, Organize2020*, NC Justice Center* and more.
* for identification purposes only, these groups may not officially be sponsoring the event, but leading members are helping to organize.
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Rocky Mount, NC 27802
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Sign: Rehire Christine, Charleston RN labor activist
View this email in your browser (http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=a8b991e2bd&e=48ada11f89)
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Action Alert: Stand with Christine (http://southernworker.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=a83874bd23&e=48ada11f89)
Disrespect for healthcare workers is disrespect for patients and harmful to quality care!
SIGN PETITION AND CALL TODAY TO REINSTATE CHRISTINE!! (http://southernworker.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=552d3a984b02de482ee7d0a6b&id=55b709d4d2&e=48ada11f89)
Healthcare Workers’ United
Charleston, SC
February 27, 2014
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Christine Nelson
South Carolina Activist Fired from Hospital after 19 Years of Service
Christine Nelson, a registered nurse and 19-year veteran at the Medical University of South Carolina was escorted from her office this afternoon after being rebuffed in her efforts to meet with supervisors. In recent weeks, Nelson and several coworkers in the Ambulatory Pre-Op Clinic in Rutledge Tower have complained of mismanagement and understaffing in their department.
An attack on healthcare workers is an attack on quality healthcare and harms our patients. When we stand up for hospital workers, we are standing up for quality health care.
Mary Moultrie, a leader of the Charleston hospital workers strike of 1969, called Nelson’s dismissal “another stain on MUSC’s reputation.” Moultrie observed that the hospital has been very successful in squelching dissent by disciplining “whistleblowers and others who speak out on behalf of patient care.” Charleston labor activist Leonard Riley observed that Nelson has been working with the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission to compile workers’ complaints against MUSC.
Over the past two years, Nelson has spoken out against racial discrimination in the hospital, abuses of the Family Medical Leave Act and HIPAA (federal privacy law) violations by supervisors, as well as the hospital’s mistreatment of low wage workers. Her work to improve working conditions and patient care has led her to assume leadership roles in Healthcare Workers’ United, the South Carolina Progressive Network, and the Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment (CAFE). She has also been active in the Truthful Tuesday Coalition and the Southern Workers Assembly. She accompanied a group of Charleston activists to the HK on J protest in Raleigh, North Carolina on February 8. Nelson is a lifetime member of Old Bethel UMC Church and is the mother of two children.
Healthcare Workers’ United invites you to stand with Chris by demanding that MUSC rehire her and end their efforts to retaliate against those workers who stand up for patients and for one another.
CALL TODAY: Contact MUSC CEO Patrick Cawley (843) 792-4000 or [email protected]
SIGN PETITION AND CALL TODAY TO REINSTATE CHRISTINE!!
North Carolina Local Worker Assemblies
Down East - Saturday, March 8, Wilson, NC, International Working Women's Day
Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts & Education, 1004 Herring Avenue E. Wilson, NC 27893, contact Larsene Taylor at 919-273-2735 for more information
Charlotte - Saturday, April 12, 12noon
Greenville Community Center, 1330 Spring St, Charlotte, NC, Contact Ben Carroll at 919-604-8167 for more information.
Join fast food workers, teachers, bus drivers, city workers, farm workers, state mental health and transportation workers, housekeepers and other workers in a Local Workers Assembly. Workers will speak out about issues on their jobs, the fight for better wages, efforts to organize for more work place union rights and fighting back against cuts by state and city governments.
Workers deserve more. This low wage economy is pushing all wages down, making it harder and harder for workers to get good paying, secure jobs. Workers rights are under attack all across the country, with Southern states leading the way. Racism, sexism and homophobia attack workers and seek to further divide us.
However, there is also a mighty upsurge in worker organizing with fast food workers striking all across the country, Walmart workers holding job actions, teachers and education workers holding walk-in's and protests at schools, state mental health workers challenging their department heads, farm workers are taking on shareholders and city workers have been staging rallies at city halls across the state.
Let's raise our voices and be heard! Let's fight back for jobs and dignity that we deserve! Our power is in our unity.
Hosted by Southern Workers Assembly. This assembly is organized by members of NC Raise Up, UE local 150-NC Public Service Workers Union, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Pitt County Coalition Against Racism (CAR), Black Workers for Justice Women's Commission, NC Association of Educators*, Organize2020*, NC Justice Center* and more.
* for identification purposes only, these groups may not officially be sponsoring the event, but leading members are helping to organize.
Website
Website
Southern Workers Assembly
www.southernworker.org
[email protected]
252-314-2363
Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 934
Rocky Mount, NC 27802
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