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MT Week Direct Action - Thwarting AHDI and much

Posted: May 10, 2012

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May Day! May Day! The MT ship is listing and worse! Join us in a Letters to the Editor Campaign Online and in Print Starting MT Week!

Here is what we are doing and asking you as a working MT to do. Whenever you are OOW, NJA, etc., draft a letter, compile a list of local newspapers and blogs in your area or nationally and start mailing them, posting them or emailing them to the editor. Let us be productive during our OOW times and do something about our collective situations.

You can request they keep your name confidential if you must.

Please forward or post here what newspapers, blogs, etc., you post, mail or email to so we can track and increase our effectiveness over time.

As an aside, I love the post below about striking and other ideas contained within. Another person who is thinking! More to come on that.

We CAN stop lamenting offshoring and do something about it and I will post more about that in the coming weeks. It will require divorcing yourself from some of those ideas you may hold dear. Educate yourself and you will see why. More to come.

I like it! - wheres_my_job

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I like it, too! - nm - Meerkat

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Direct Action Letter - Real Public

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Let us take meaningful action today and this weekend to regain MT Week as a week that truly recognizes the working MT by shipping Letters to the Editor off electronically and by snail mail to your local papers for publication in their print editions.

AHDIs theme this year is "patient safety"

Direct Action Letter Writing Campaign for - Real Public Awareness of

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MT Week (that begins Sunday) and what working MTs actually bring to "patient safety."

Let us take meaningful action today and this weekend to regain MT Week as a week that TRULY recognizes the working MT. Ship Letters to the Editor off electronically and by snail mail to your local papers for publication in their print and online editions.

AHDIs theme this year is "patient safety" in case you didn't know. What a joke and so self-serving! How about a theme of "The MTSO How-To Guide To Ensure More Americans Fall Into Poverty While 1% Corporate America Gets Richer"

We encourage you to take this weekend and to draft your letters and get them sent by early Monday morning. Hopefully we can meet publication deadlines. Write letters particularly if you are OOW and waiting for work during your shift. You'll have many points to make in your letter!

Feel free to post your submissions here as we can work together to develop effective strategies and effective talking points for the future - for healthcare consumers, doctors, hospital executives and transcription supervisors. Politely and humorously explain why they may be part of the problem rather than part of the solution to America's economic downturn, that the cheapest product at the cheapest price and their "bottom line" MUST NOT be the only considerations.

C'mon ladies and gents, let's rally!

Here's a link to motivate you: http://www.savethepostoffice.com/great-minds-think-alike-and-so-do-usps-district-managers

Here's 2 more links to inspire you: nationalnursesunited.org (see link to Roseanne Demoro interview on right side) It's well worth the time!

Listen to interview with Kathleen H. Jamieson at http://billmoyers.com/segment/kathleen-hall-jamieson-on-campaign-misinformation/.
It will surely inspire you to educate yourself so as not to fall prey to misinformation from either the right or left!

Let's rally ladies and gents!

Direct Action - Ultra

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How about samples from some of the MTs who have time on their hands? (Yeah, right) Something short, sweet, to the point that can be personalized and then posted. The powers that be need facts -- with what can we wow them. . .?

Why on earth? - sm

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Why would I want to write the newspaper about OOW? Are you serious? Striking? Have fun making a fool of yourself - WOW!

And who is "we" anyway. The MTs that can't make the line counts? There are plenty that do make the count, so good luck with this.

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