Join Us Feb. 6 in Los Angeles

For those of you reading in California, we hope you'll consider joining Put Pharmacy First and several ally organizations for an informational hearing on Friday, February 6, in Los Angeles.

If you want to help shape the direction of the pharmacy industry in California, shift focus to quality patient care and away from "fast food pharmacy," or help educate California policymakers about increasing workloads and other pharmacist concerns, we encourage you to attend.

WHAT:	Informational hearing - "Working Conditions of Retail Pharmacists: Are Workers and Consumers Being Harmed?," California Assembly, Committee on Labor and Employment
WHEN:	Friday, February 6, 2009, 10:00 AM
WHERE:	California Science Center, Muses Room, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA.

The hearing will be an opportunity for pharmacists to publicly discuss their growing concerns about working conditions in chain retail pharmacies, and help inform policy makers and the public about these important issues. We hope it will give everyone an opportunity to exchange ideas and begin working together to find a solution.

Meet Ray F.

My name is Ray Funatsu and I've been a pharmacist since 1963. In '74 I started working as a manager with Sav-on until '94; that's when I stepped down because it got to be a little too much. I worked until 2000 and retired and now I'm on-call.