BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18644469 SEQUENCE:18711429 CREATED:20100412T182900Z DESCRIPTION:A speak out will be held in Sacramento on Workers Memorial Day 4/28/2010. One focus will be on the terrorism and bullying against Kaiser Sacramento workers\n\n\nStop Bullying Of Workers At Kaiser Sacramento-Workers Memorial Day Event 4/28/2010\n\n“WARD OFF” ABUSIVE MANAGEMENT AND WORKPLACE BULLYING AT KAISER SOUTH SAC!!␣ \nUnions/Community and Occupational Safety and Health Groups to Hold Mass Rally on April 28\n\n\n \nRefusal to approve doctor visits brings “constant pain” and leads to 3-weeks \nmedical leave for South Sacramento Optometrist... \n\n“WARDEN MARY” IS MAKING US SICK \n\nOn Monday, March 22, 2010, Dr. Annie Yee, a career optometrist and Local 20 shop steward at Kaiser South \nSacramento, submitted a request for leave for a medical appointment scheduled for one week later, March 29, 2010 and a \nsecond appointment for April 14, 2010. According to her treating physician, DR. YEE WAS SUFFERING PHYSICAL \nSYMPTOMS OF WORK-RELATED STRESS arising from months of abuse at the hands of Assistant Medical Group \nAdministrator Mary Ward. \n \nWhile Ward approved the April 14 request, she failed to even respond to Dr. Yee’s request for the more urgently \nneeded March 29 appointment. Hearing nothing for days while her condition worsened, Ward finally replied asking Dr. \nYee to postpone her medical appointment due to alleged “coverage” and “patient access” issues. Fearing reprisals from \nWard if she refused, Dr. Yee pushed her appointment back one week to April 6. But this wasn’t good enough for \n“Warden” Mary who told Dr. Yee that the request would only be “granted” if one of her scheduled patients could be \nmoved. By the next day, Ward had increased the number of patients Dr. Yee would have to reschedule before she would \nbe “allowed” to go to her doctor to three. “I was being punished for being sick,” Dr. Yee told Local 20. \n \n Finally, on March 29 - the day she originally requested to see her doctor - Dr. Yee woke up worse than ever, but \ntoo scared to call in sick. She reported to work but within minutes found herself begging to be released as she was “in \nconstant pain.” When ESC Local 20 Union Rep Anthony Prince heard about this shocking denial of legitimate sick \nleave, he fired off an email to Mary Ward and AMG Deborah Royalty: \n \n“This is outrageous. Dr. Yee is to be released immediately.” \n \n By the time she finally received treatment that day, Dr. Yee’s medical condition had deteriorated to the point \nthat her doctor ordered her off work for three weeks. \n \n ESC Local 20’s position is that Mary Ward is now presenting a direct threat to the health and safety of our \nmembers. For this reason, Local 20 has adopted a “DON’T ASK, JUST TELL” policy at the Kaiser South Sac. Employ- \nees do not need permission to seek required medical care. Management cannot legally use the excuse of “patient access” \nor “coverage” to deny legitimate sick or emergency family leave. \n \nNo excuses for abusive management! \nWe have a right to our health! \n \nSTOP WORKPLACE BULLYING - MARY WARD MUST GO! \n\nIBT-856 vec \nY: Kaiser: Kaiser Correspondence: Warden Mary.40510.pub \n \n“STRETCH” Bonus Puts the Lie to Mary Ward’s False Allegations \n \nSOUTH SAC OPTOMETRY DEPT. WINS TOP RATING ON PATIENT MPS SURVEY \nSince the day she arrived to supervise the Eye Clinic, Assistant Medical Group Administrator Mary Ward has made defamatory state- \nments about individual staff members and the Optometry Dept. as a whole that Local 20 members at South Sac don’t care about patient access \nand quality of services. Now, the patients themselves have spoken. \n \nOn April 2, 2010, Optometry Dept. employees received awards for achieving “Stretch” on Member Patient Satisfaction service goals \nfor all of 2009. In a congratulatory letter to Local 20 members, Ward shamelessly used the pronoun “we” in claiming credit for this huge success, \nwhile thanking staff for “your devotion to our members and patients, for your dedication to your profession and for your ongoing diligence to your \nwork.” \n \nIn fact, this tremendous achievement comes in the face of and despite Ward’s continuing harassment and bullying of OD’s and OA’s at \nSouth Sac. Ward has sent emails accusing optometrists of refusing to see patients; she has accused staff of “time card fraud” while presenting \nabsolutely no evidence of her allegation; Ward has threatened workers who were forced to cancel doctor’s appointments out of fear of retalia- \ntion; Ward has challenged the professionalism and dedication of Local 20 members who attended Steward Training; Ward gave an “unexcused” \ntardy to an OA who was late because her car had been broken into. (In fact, the employee –who had a perfect attendance record--took an ex- \npensive cab ride to work to minimize disruption to the schedule.) \n \n Finally, there hasn’t been a day that goes by without Mary Ward berating employees who request legitimate leave for medical and \nfamily matters, inferring that they are unconcerned about patient access and quality of service. \n \n The credit for the Service Performance in the Northern California Region goes to Union members who continue to act as dedicated \nprofessionals despite Mary Ward and the hostile work environment she has created. \n\n“Workers Memorial Day” began in 1978 as a way to honor the 5,000 American workers who die annually from workplace accidents and the \nhundreds of thousands who suffer injury, disease and psychological harm at work.\n\nIn many cases, this toll of suffering and death is linked to FEAR on the job. In the last two years, over 26 farm workers died in California\nfrom heat exposure: they were too intimidated to drink the water they are entitled to under the law. Clearly, management bullying costs\nlives.\n\nHere at Kaiser South Sacramento, we have dozens of workers who are hurt on the job and suffer stress with serious physical symptoms.\nWe also have managers like AMGA Mary Ward making threats and denying fundamental contractual and human rights, such as the right to \nsee a doctor or tend to a family emergency. One of Ward’s recent victims, Dr. Annie Yee is now off work for 3 weeks\nbecause Ward refused to approve requested doctor’s appointments.\n\nDo you have a story to tell? Are you fed up with managers who threaten, yell, insult, be-little, falsely accuse and punish you for exercising\nyour rights? Be there:\n\n\nWHERE: South Gate Library, 6132 66th Avenue, Sacramento,CA 95823\nWHEN: April 28, 2010 6-8pm\n\nBring your family. Refreshment will be served.\n \nWorkers Memorial Day,2010\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/12/18644469.php SUMMARY:Stop Bullying Of Workers At Kaiser Sacramento-Workers Memorial Day LOCATION:South Gate Library, 6132 66th Avenue, Sacramento,CA 95823\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/12/18644469.php DTSTART:20100429T010000Z DTEND:20100429T030000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR