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Your Right to Wear YES on Question 1 ButtonsDuring the campaign for safe patient limits, you may feel intimidated by management because you are wearing a button supporting Question 1. You may hear from a manager who believes you are not allowed to wear such buttons and tells you to remove them.

Let’s set the record straight: You have every right to wear Nurses Say YES on 1 buttons.

The wearing of buttons is protected activity under the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRA guarantees the right of employees to engage in protected concerted activity, and makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of this right. Hospital management cannot insist that we stop wearing such items. This demand would clearly be an attempt to intimidate nurses from exercising their rights under federal labor law.

Are you feeling intimidated?

Here’s what to say:

“I have a right under federal labor law to wear my button.”

If you receive any further feedback from management, contact your local union representative.

Here’s what to do:

Contact your local elected officials and tell them hospital management is trying to infringe on your right to engage in protected activity. You are expressing your view about an upcoming election related to your nursing practice, just as the hospital has done using its patient portals, employee email system and other ways it has communicated with patients, staff and the public.

The easiest way to contact your legislator is by going to . https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

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