It's Time to Let the Board of Trustees Know That They Too Are Accountable for the Brockton Nurses Strike

Below is a listing of the Board, with their addresses. It's time to engage them in this process and request their support in bringing this strike to a close.

The Board of Trustees has ultimate oversight authority for this community hospital. They need to know that patients are suffering, nurses are suffering and the community is suffering because this hospital refuses to bargain in good faith with the nurses to provide a fair settlement that includes a commitment to staff the hospital safely. They need to know that it is not safe to expect nurses to work hours of overtime against their will to provide care to patients.

They need to know that the nurses are on strike to protect their patients and this community from a continuation of hospital practices and staffing patterns that have placed, and will continue to place, patients lives in jeopardy unless the nurses' are provided the protections they are asking for.

They need to know that Brockton Administration is wasting millions of dollars to hire replacement nurses with no connection to this community to prolong a strike over the hospital's demand to have the right to use tired and overworked nurses to deliver care to patients. They are supporting a management position that goes against credible nursing research that clearly demonstrates that low staffing and mandatory overtime leads to patient complications, medication errors and increased patient mortality.

They need to know that the only people in this community supporting the management of Brockton Hospital is the management of Brockton Hospital. They need to know that members of the Board of Trustees are responsible to this community and ultimately must answer for the impact of the hospital's continuation of this strike.

We need to tell them to talk with the nurses, get the facts, listen to their positions, and then to do what they can to convince Brockton Hospital management to bring the "real" nurses back into the facility so that patients can receive safe, quality care.

Dr. James M. Bevilacqua
Department of Radiology
Brockton Hospital
Brockton, MA 02302

Mr. James W. Blake
President & CEO
The Brockton Credit Union
58 Legion Parkway
Brockton, MA 02301

Dr. Allen B. Davis
President, Medical Staff
61 Libby St.
Brockton, MA 02302

Attorney David P. Frenette
130 Libby St.
Brockton, MA 02301

Mr. Norman B. Goodman
President & CEO
680 Centre St.
Brockton Hospital
Brockton, MA 02302

Carla Goodwin, Ph.D.
6 Beaver Dam Rd.
No. Easton, MA 02356

Mr. Donald L. MacIver
Leo F. MacIver Co., Inc.
75 Ames St, PO Box 2086
Brockton, MA 02305

Mr. William B. Payton
President of Payton Construction
273 Summer St.
Boston, MA 02210

Fred C Petti, Ph.D.
Vice President of Administration
Stonehill College
North Easton, MA 02357

Judith A. Riordan, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
E. Bridgewater Public Schools
11 Plymouth St.
E. Bridgewater, MA 02333

Michael J. Sullivan
District Attorney
32 Belmont St.
PO Box 1665
Brockton, MA 02303

Mr. Robert D. Sullivan
President of Sullivan Tire
41 Accord Park Drive
Norwell, MA 02061

Eileen C. Williams, Ed.D
20 Ashtead Rd.
Bridgewater, MA 02324

David Wolobojian
CEO, Bridgewater Cooperative Bank
72 Main St.
Bridgewater, MA 02324

 

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