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Members of AFSCME Local 1324 are campaigning for improvements in health & safety for months, by shedding light on the dramatic increase to employee injuries, and proposing solutions. This week, they took their demand for a new, “Man-down alarm system” to the DMH Commission. Check out all the media coverage here!

More stories: AFSCME wants new alarm system at Fulton State Hospital
Mental hospital workers urge state to buy new alarm system
Hospital sees more staff injuries
Worker involvement and pressure make the difference

August
Members host a health & safety forum, for all interested Fulton Hospital employees to identify problems and generate a list of solutions. They schedule monthly labor/management meetings with facility administrators to address the concerns and make their proposals.

September
Members demand and receive more input and another direct care employee slot on the facility’s health & safety committee, and a policy that ensures emergency personnel attend to injured employees on the wards.

 WE PROTECT VETERANS CARE
AFSCME members came together on Nov 10 presenting a petition with hundreds of signatures from all seven veterans home asking the Veterans Commission to change the sick leave policy.
AFSCME members made the case that the policy prevents sick staff from taking sick leave.

The spirited AFSCME activists Stacy Griffiths-Mt. Vernon, Wendy Battaglia & Lathey Riley of Cameron, Regina Furr & Deborah Coreman-St. Louis

WE FORCED THE COMMISSION
Following an intense exchange between AFSCME members, Veterans Commission and officials, Director Kay was ordered to investigate leave policy and report back.     

The state has not put in place any privatization protections during contract negotiations, even as it continues to turn over state services and facilities to private companies. Mid-Mo in Columbia and Western Missouri MHC are recent examples. The state announced Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric is the next target and it is feared that part of SEMORS will be privatized. All DMH facilities operate under the threat of privatization.

We will fight privatization at the bargaining table, at the workplace, in the legislature and in the public arena. We have jobs worth fighting for – and services worth protecting.

Find out what’s being done and what you can do to protect our jobs
from privatization. Let’s keep the heat on the administration.