Here's the second in our series of SEIU Healthcare PA members talking about the need to ban mandatory overtime.

Mandatory overtime affects hospital workers, nursing home workers, and state and county employees.

If you love seniors, call your state senator and tell them to vote for a ban on forced overtime. If you live in the district of a member of the Republican leadership, call and tell them to schedule a vote on the bill (HB 834).

On Tuesday, January 29, health care workers from around the state will be converging on the state capitol in Harrisburg to urge the Senate to ban forced overtime.

Click here to hear one nurse's story about why she's making the trip.

This is the first in a series of video emails we're sending the PA General Assembly, to let them know why health care workers all over the state need an end to mandatory overtime.

There's a letter of support below for PA House Bill 824. Please sign it. Bill 824 returns crucial due process and other protections that would help prevent unnecessary and unfair utility terminations to low-income people. These have increased substantially under a 2004 law.

It's about to be winter. Clearly time to act.

The new bill would: remedy oppressive security deposits for utilities, ease fees for reconnection, create requirements that low-income families be informed of supportive programs and grants, incrases payment agreement time frames, among other safe and humane changes.

The letter, and information about how to sign on, is below.