Community leaders support free & fair elections
Mayor Menino
"Why can't every hospital in the city of Boston have 1199?"
Rep. Marie St. Fleur
"My mother was one of those hospital workers...and I wish she had had a union."
Additional supporters
- Rich Rogers, head of the Greater Boston Labor Council
The Council represents 90,000 union members in the Boston area. Rogers wrote a letter to hospital board members urging them to begin a new relationship with workers at Boston hospitals. - Boston City Council
City Council members passed a resolution 10-0 calling on Boston hospital CEOs to sign "free and fair election agreements" pledging they will not intimidate hospital staff seeking to form unions or spend patient care dollars on campaigns to interfere with secret ballot union elections. The resolution also calls on the hospital chiefs to pledge they will not take caregivers away from the bedside or patient care duties to coerce their vote. - The Jewish Advocate
11/03/07 - "The history of Jewish labor"
12/17.07 - "A Jewish code of conduct" - Councilor Stephen Murphy
Boston City Councilor Stephen Murphy sent a letter to all Boston hospital CEOs urging them to come out in support of a Free and Fair Elections Code of Conduct.
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