Posted on 17 March 2008, by Anna
Support Local Healthcare Workers - Informational Picket, Tuesday, March 18
Tuesday, March 18
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
sidewalk in front of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
1165 Montgomery Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Santa Rosa Memorial hospital has recently announced the layoffs of over 200 staff members, the closure of the Rehab Unit at Sotoyome, and closure of the last psych unit in Sonoma county-Fulton Campus.
On Thursday, March 13th a group of employees presented a petition with close to 800 employee and physician signatures to the CEO George Perez asking him to stop the layoffs and keep the acute rehab unit at Sotoyome and psych unit at Fulton open to the community. Their message: that there is certainly a better way to solve this problem.
SR Memorial Hospital employees and supporters are holding an informational picket on March 18th in front of the hospital. The public is invited. Now, more than ever the workers are in need of community support.
Visit: www.voiceatstjoes.org to hear a recent podcast interview of Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, as well as a response by Michael Hartnett, SR Memorial Hospital Respiratory Therapist, to Reich’s article in the SF Chronicle, regarding St. Joseph Healthcare System and union organizing.
