1199SEIU delegates at seven Tenet-affiliated hospitals in South Florida recently joined together to plan a campaign they have dubbed the “Road to Respect” in order to improve working conditions at their facilities and make sure management respects the current collective bargaining agreements which ensure fair treatment of the workforce.
The workers have expressed feeling a general lack of respect from management for the agreements at each facility, and as a part of their campaign, they will be educating co-workers about the contract and empowering more people to enforce it. Delegates plan to conduct trainings, recruit new members and reach out to their co-workers to find solutions to the challenges they are facing at the hospitals.
“Delegates need to review the contract, learn the contract and apply it,” said Yvonne Solomon, an 1199SEIU delegate and a phlebotomist at North Shore Medical Center in Miami. “That’s the key issue right now - learning the contract and applying it.”
By learning the contract and applying it, delegates like Solomon hope to not only improve working conditions at the seven hospitals, which includes St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, North Shore Medical Center in Miami, Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale, West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton and Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah, but they also hope to improve the relationship with management at each hospital so that together they can deliver the best patient care possible.
“We all will benefit from [this campaign] because we will learn to respect each other. We will have a better relationship [with management]” added Solomon. “We want to see management respect the contract, that’s key, and we are empowered to enforce it, because if we don’t enforce it, we will not get the respect we deserve.”
The workers have expressed feeling a general lack of respect from management for the agreements at each facility, and as a part of their campaign, they will be educating co-workers about the contract and empowering more people to enforce it. Delegates plan to conduct trainings, recruit new members and reach out to their co-workers to find solutions to the challenges they are facing at the hospitals.
“Delegates need to review the contract, learn the contract and apply it,” said Yvonne Solomon, an 1199SEIU delegate and a phlebotomist at North Shore Medical Center in Miami. “That’s the key issue right now - learning the contract and applying it.”
By learning the contract and applying it, delegates like Solomon hope to not only improve working conditions at the seven hospitals, which includes St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, North Shore Medical Center in Miami, Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Medical Center in Ft. Lauderdale, West Boca Medical Center in Boca Raton and Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah, but they also hope to improve the relationship with management at each hospital so that together they can deliver the best patient care possible.
“We all will benefit from [this campaign] because we will learn to respect each other. We will have a better relationship [with management]” added Solomon. “We want to see management respect the contract, that’s key, and we are empowered to enforce it, because if we don’t enforce it, we will not get the respect we deserve.”
