Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
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Dateline: April 13th, 2011
Contact: Jennifer Doe (908) 420-9632
Workers Rights Board Hearing on the Staffing Crisis at Tufts Medical Center:
Panel of Community Leaders to Hear Testimony on Compromised Patient Care
Tufts Medical Center caregivers and experts will gather at the Asian Community Center at 38 Oak Street in Chinatown on Wednesday, April 13th at 10 AM to have their testimony heard by a panel of community and civic leaders. The event will focus on the current understaffing of nurses and other outstanding workplace issues that compromise the quality of patient care. The panel will issue findings at a later date based on the information they collect during the event.
The Massachusetts Workers’ Rights Board is a board of community, faith, and political leaders who lend their names, time, and support to the workers’ rights struggle. It gives workers who are subjected to unjust practices an opportunity to have their voices heard. It was founded in 1996 in response to the decline in government enforcement of labor and workplace laws as a way to give an alternative resource for justice when workers’ rights are violated. The panel includes Rabbi Barbara Penzner of Hillel B’nai Torah, neurology specialist Dr. Rachel A. Nardin, Centro Presente’s Executive Director Patti Montes, and Ben Day, Executive Director of MassCARE.
“More and more workers today are taking on additional work while losing benefits.” Said Rabbi Penzner, “In medicine, this translates into less attention to each patient. I want to hear the nurses’ stories and support these heroes of health care.”
The event is sponsored by the Workers’ Rights Coalition and Massachusetts Jobs with Justice. For more information or to set up interviews with panelist or testifiers please contact Jennifer Doe at jennifer@massjwj.net or (908) 420-9632.
In more than 40 cities in 25 states, Jobs with Justice coalitions unite labor, religious, student and community organizations in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live.
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