For a Healthy Future
Hospital Systems is comprised of the more than 110,000
nurses who are members of SEIU, the nation's largest and fastest-growing
health care union.
We're working together in an effort to build a National Health Care Union
that will lead the fight for higher health care standards such as:
Safe staffing and quality care.
Understaffing in our
hospitals and other health facilities drives down the quality of care and drives
health care workers away from the profession. We are working to improve staffing
levels, protect quality care standards, and eliminate mandatory overtime that
puts patients at risk.
Better pay and working conditions.
At a time when nurses
and other health care staff are leaving their professions in droves because of
abysmal working conditions, we’re bargaining for improvements in pay, benefits,
working conditions, and patient care decisions. We want to keep passionate and
skilled caregivers in our hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care
institutions in order to provide the level of care Americans expect and
deserve.
A voice in health care policies.
Rather than leaving all
the decisions about staffing and patient care standards to hospital and nursing
home administrators, we’re coming together to address key issues and concerns
through negotiated contracts, legislative and regulatory solutions, and
community outreach.