Free & Fair Elections = Quality Jobs, Quality Care

Hospital workers across Boston are calling for free and fair union elections so they can have a voice in protecting patient care and improving jobs for working families.

In an open letter to Massachusetts hospital CEOs last week November , prominent Boston physicians voiced their support for the right of hospital workers to participate in free and fair union elections to address their lack of healthcare coverage and the absence of basic workplace protections in many area facilities. The letter was published this week in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald and the Boston Metro.

"We believe that addressing these issues together will improve patient care while addressing the needs of hospital employees," wrote the physicians. The group expressed concern over what they called "a long history of intimidating and coercing hospital workers" standing in the way of free and fair union elections.

The letter continued, "We invite our colleagues to add their names to this letter calling on hospital administrators to do the right thing for workers and for our patients by signing a Code of Conduct respecting the right of employees to free and fair union elections."

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