The 18,000 members of the International Association of Machinists &Aerospace Workers District 751 who live and work in Everett depend on the quality care of the nurses and health care professionals at the Providence-Everett Medical Center when we or our family are sick, need care, or have an emergency. Our jobs are physically demanding and we rely on competent and capable healthcare workers to keep us well.
That is why if nurses are concerned that understaffing is compromising their ability to care for their patients, we are concerned too. We expect Prov-Everett to remain a center of health care excellence by responding to the calls of their professional, highly trained workers and provide staffing that meets the needs of their patients.
We need our good health in order to focus on what we do best, building planes for the 21st century. Our community needs our nurses to be able to focus on what they do best — caring for all patients in need, not making impossible choices about who they have time to help when short staffed. Prov-Everett needs to fix these problems, so that we can all continue to have access to high quality health care.
Jon Holden
IAM 751 District President
Directing Business Representative
Bothell
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