CWA District 1 Healthcare Coordinating Council

The Healthcare Coordinating Council has been formed to support healthcare Locals within the CWA District 1. The Council's main objective is to bring together CWA healthcare worker Locals to discuss problems in the workplace and to cooperatively develop solutions to the ever-changing workplace.

Benefits

You can call on support from the Healthcare Coordinating Council to address issues related to:

• Health and Safety
• Contracts
• Collective Bargaining Research
• Organizing
• Education
• Political Action
• Communication
• Mobilization

Legislation

We will keep you updated on the latest legislation news in areas that concern Healthcare workers such as:  Legislation that will mandate safe staffing standards in your facility.  Short staffing puts both the patients and the nurses at risk. Only through legislation can we ensure adequate staffing and patient safety. .  This truly demonstrates the role of unions in the healthcare arena and how they enable us to actively work as advocates for our patients and our profession.

Workplace Issues

Adequate staffing is the number one issue among nurses around the country and has long been the focus of reform and lobbying efforts by the CWA and other labor organizations.  Many hospitals have too few nurses caring for too many patients, leading to thousands of preventable patient deaths and injuries. Many nurses are leaving the profession due to inadequate/unsafe staffing levels.

Organizing

We must continue to mobilize and educate our members and organize the unorganized within our industry and encourage others to do the same. There's power in numbers and with the clout of the CWA membership behind you, we can change the system in a way that ensures that the money will be there for higher pay and benefits and safer working conditions for all of you.

The Healthcare Coordinating Council will strive to provide an approach to dealing with change, including a need for an internal union program for legislative actions, political connections, research, analysis, communication, mobilization and organizing.

NEW WEBSITE
District 1 - CWA Healthcare Coordinating Council

Welcome to our Website:
http://www.cwadistrict1hccc.org/

One of the goals of the Healthcare Coordinating Council is to create, develop and maintain a website that is specific to supporting the activities of CWA District 1 Healthcare Worker Locals.

This will be an interactive website and we would like to illicit articles, from members that depict positive and thought invoking ideas, stories, good news and other articles that you would like to share with all, of thehealthcare Locals within District 1.

We are looking for articles from members to upload into these categories:
Good News (Examples….Why I Love my Union, What does being in a union mean to me, How being in a union has helped me or others etc…)

Take Action (Examples…. Upcoming events or union related activities that you would like to make known throughout the district, etc…)

Member Feedback (Examples….how do you like the website, what would you like to see included in our website, how can we improve our website, would you like to see us on Facebook, twitter, youtube? How can we make it more interesting? etc…..)

Remember….the more we hear from you the better our website will be!

Please feel free to email us at dist1hcc@gmail.com

DISTRICT 1 HEALTHCARE WORKER COUNCIL RESEARCH/MOBILIZER/ORGANIZER

Includes:                I.              Position

                                II.            Reports to

                                III.           Position Definition

IV.           Function

                                V.            Qualifications

I.              POSITIONS:          District 1 Healthcare Worker Council Research/Mobilizer/Organizer

II:            REPORTS TO:      Director District 1 Healthcare Worker Council and Healthcare Coordinating Council.

III.           POSITION DEFINITION:    A position designated for a specific period of time (one [1] year)  funded by the Strategic Industry Fund that would be responsible to develop a plan of action/program for CWA District 1 health care workers for mobilizing and organizing.

IV.           Function:  The responsibilities of the District 1 Research/Mobilizer/Organizer will be:

1. Research and develop a national collection and updating of CWA health care contracts in a way that is accessible to Staff, Local Officers, and other CWA representatives responsible for collective bargaining.
2. Create an experienced group of health care organizers that can be used as a resource and for ground support in organizing campaigns working with existing organizing staff.
3. Research specific to health care reform and its affects on health care workers.
4. Survey and assemble data assisting in developing strategies that will improve the overall work conditions of health care workers (i.e. staffing ratio).
5. Assist Director in planning and implementation of a National Conference for health care workers in 2012.

V.            Qualifications:

                (1)           Believe in the principles of Unionism.

                (2)           Must be a health care worker and/or have extensive knowledge of representing health

care workers and their issues.

1. Good organizational skills.
2. Good communication skills and ability to work well with others.
3. Proficient computer skills to include researching specific health care reform and its affects on health care workers.
4. Willingness to travel.
5. Ability to survey and assemble data and assisting Director in developing strategies that will improve the overall work conditions of health care workers.
6. Research and develop a data base for national collection and updating of  CWA health care contracts in a way that is accessible to staff, local officers and other CWA representatives responsible for collective bargaining.