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End Mandatory Overtime for Health Care Professionals!

SEIU in Wisconsin is fighting to stop the health care industry's ever expanding use of mandatory overtime. Click on the links below to find out more about the growing abuse of forced overtime in health care facilities and what you can do about it.

Find information about the Wisconsin Committee voting on SB512

Proposed Ban on Forced Overtime

Read SB512, sponsored by State Senator Judy Robson (D-Beloit).

Take Action
Urge your State Senator and Representative to support the ban on mandatory overtime for health care workers. Don't know who your state legislators are or how to contact them? Click here.

Members take action to win Mandatory Overtime Ban

Read Dee Ives Letter to Senator Grothman

The Facts about Mandatory Overtime

According to a national survey by SEIU, nurse's now work an average 8.5 weeks of overtime a year. One major Wisconsin hospital imposed more than 14,472 hours of mandatory overtime in the year 2000. Now, record numbers of nurses are leaving the health care field. Read the SEIU fact sheet on Mandatory Overtime for detailed information on this growing crisis.

Answers to Industry Arguments against a Ban

The hospital industry is resisting limits on the use and abuse of mandatory overtime for caregivers. Read the SEIU response to the hospital industry's disingenuous arguments against proposed mandatory overtime legislation before the Wisconsin State Legislature.

Research on the Coming Nurse Shortage

Substantial government research on America's nursing workforce points to an alarming crisis in the availability of nurses to provide patient care. The research pinpoints mandatory overtime as a major reason nurses are leaving their profession. Read testimony summarizing the GAO Report on the coming nurse shortage.

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