Get Involved!

• Sign a Membership Card
• Become a Union Steward
• Organize a unit union meeting to identify your unit issues
• Drop your kids off for Kid's Night
• Wear a VFNHP Badge pull or pin
• Read your contract
• Stop by the office at 308 Pine Street
• Volunteer for Kid's Night
• Participate in a Lobby Day
• Support other organized workers
• Knit for Warm Hearts Warm Heads
• Stick up for a co-worker
• Advocate for your patients' safety and quality care. By doing what's right, we raise the standards in our hospital and around the state.
• Be an activist
• Honk when you pass a picket line
• Attend Steward Training
• Accentuate the light by creating positive change
• Join a Union Committee
• Check out our latest publications
• Recognize the work of a co-worker - FAHC Thumbs Up!
• Attend the next Justice for Healthcare Workers meeting
• Talk the talk, then walk the walk
• Check out what our national union is up to
• Take and enjoy your breaks
• Put in for your overtime - including missed meals!
• Attend the next Executive Board Meeting (2nd Thurs of each month)
• Speak Up
• Refuse an unsafe assignment. Call the VFNHP nurse on call for emergencies before you accept the assignment.
• Welcome a new nurse and make sure she/he knows about VFNHP
• Fill out a Concern Form for any unsafe situation
• Check out the VFNHP bulletin boards in the McClure Lobby, UHC & Fanny Allen
• Update your Union bulletin board on your unit
• Add to our list of accomplishments
• Say NO when necessary
• Write an article for the Rising Sun Newsletter
• You ARE involved, you're surfing this website
• Register to Vote
• Check out our legislative updates
• Contact your State Legislator
• Talk to your co-workers about the contract
• Read your AFT newsletter Healthwire
• Contact US