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MNA
Launches Mobilization Effort for Statewide Safe Staffing
Petition Drive—Here's How You Can Help! Organized
under the theme "Registered Nurses: The Key to Quality
Care", from May 1 - 7 the MNA will be conducting a statewide petition drive
for Safe Staffing Legislation to highlight Nurses Week. We are now
beginning the countdown to the petition drive. Beginning the week
of April 1, nurses in MNA bargaining units across the state will be leafleting
at their facilities to inform other nurses of the need to get active in
the campaign for safe staffing and to start planning to be out in their
communities and neighborhoods between May 1 and 7th collecting signatures. Below is information/materials
that are part of this campaign including: a peitition
form for collecting signatures in support
of Safe Staffing Legislaiton,
a flyer that you can handed-out to the public while collecting signatures,
and four flyers to be distributed to nurses at MNA bargaining units throughout
the state.
These materials can be adapted by any other nurse, nursing school faculty
member, or individual who wants to use these tools to educate and motivate
other nurses to get involved in this historic effort. If you are
a member of an MNA bargaining unit, make sure your unit is participating,
if you don't belong to an MNA facility, you can still participate by organizing
groups of nurses where you work to participate. If every nurse got
just one petition filled out, we would have thousands of signatures.
Other highlights of this campaign: we will be running radio advertisements
(statewide) before and during the petition drive to raise public awareness
of the issue and the drive. On May 9, we are planning a Caravan for
Safe Care, where a special media event will be planned, with buses from
the Pittsfield, the North Shore and Cape Cod will traverse the state collecting
the petitions and delivering them to the State House. Stay tuned
for further details. Special Dates to Remember: We
are also planning special signature collection events where we are recruiting
larger groups of nurses to help us collect many signatures at
special events. These include:
- April
15, 2002: Marathon Day Signature Collection.We
are organizing nurses to line the route to petition and leaflet. If you
can particpate, contact Eileen Norton at 781.830.5777.
- May 6, South Station and North Station(thousands
of commuters pass through these portals), 7:30 - 10 AM & 4 -
6:30 PM. Contact Eileen Norton at 781.830.5777.
Of
course, should you wish to take out petitions and start gathering signatures
right away, feel free.
If you need more materials, feel free to contact us. Call
Phyllis
Kleingardner at 781.830.5728. If you have questions about the campaign,
feel free to contact David Schildmeier directly by calling 781.830.5717
or cell phone at 781.249.0430.
Below are downloadable/printable flyers for you to use:
 Note:
These flyers/form is available as an Adobe Acrobat downloadable file. In order
to view it, you must first have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed
on your computer. This software is available for free from Adobe. To
download the Reader software, click here. After you have downloaded
the Reader and installed it, you may then download the flyers/form to print from your PC.
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