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Wisconsin Needs Safe Staffing in Our Hospitals! Write Your Legislator to Take Action for Nurses, Patients, and Quality Care

We're back in the fight for safe staffing! When this bill was first introduced in 2023, the legislature refused to even give it a hearing, ignoring the will of nurses, healthcare workers, and patients. That's why the Wisconsin Nurse Staffing and Patient Protection Act is back in 2026. Safe staffing saves lives. Please send a letter to your state legislators to demand they support this critical bill. Here's why it matters:

Ascension Wisconsin announced that they were closing all labor and delivery services at St. Francis Hospital, the only labor and delivery services on the southside of Milwaukee, effective just days before Christmas 2022. We think this was a devastating and heartless decision, especially for the LatinX and immigrant community we serve. Every person deserves the right to safe, accessible, essential care in their community, and should not be forced to travel 15-20 minutes when every minute could mean the difference between life and death.

WFNHP union members have been fighting for quality care

St. Francis Hospital brought babies into this world for decades and decades. Cruelly, however, Ascension chose to close the only labor and delivery unit on the southside of Milwaukee when it abruptly closed the service at St. Francis Hospital only days before Christmas. St. Francis is also the only unionized private sector hospital in the city.

The southside of Milwaukee is home to a significant immigrant, Latinx, and working class population who rely on the accessibility of the hospital for many needs. Pregnant women and families must now travel outside of their communities to deliver their

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Healthcare workers are on the front lines of the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. Many are rising to the occasion and working overtime, risking their own health and safety in order to care for our community. All of us depend on their ability to do their jobs. Unfortunately, our current healthcare ecosystem is unable to meet the influx of needed care.

Join the WFNHP in calling on hospital and laboratory executives, healthcare corporations and government officials to provide healthcare workers with:

Today's Supreme Court decision, the Janus ruling, impacts unions and union members across the country, but it means something unique to us in Wisconsin. We have endured attacks on our rights as working people over the last several years. Unfortunately, our union sisters and brothers across the country are now getting a taste of what we have faced. However, we have never stopped fighting for what our members and patients deserve--no matter what--and today will not weaken our resolve.

“This is a very bad ruling, but living in a state that for years has been attacking workers’ rights, we have learned that we can be a strong and effective union when we stick together and join with the community to stand up for working families. In spite of relentless attacks, nurses and healthcare workers in Wisconsin continue to join together in our union, because they know the future is better when workers have unions,” said WFNHP President, Candice Owley.

Make your views known to those in Congress and state legislatures who represent you on the issues that affect working families every day. Visit the AFT's Take Action page.

Wisconsin Needs Safe Staffing in Our Hospitals! Write Your Legislator to Take Action for Nurses, Patients, and Quality Care

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