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Global Nurses United Press Clips
A nurse draws a smiley face on the back of a fellow health worker’s protective suit before she enters a COVID-19 ward at the Philippine General Hospital. Photo credit: Inquirer
Australia
- Headline: Victorian doctors call for more transparency around health workers infected with Covid-19
- Headline: Hospitals draw on army of reserves as clusters force staff into isolation
- Headline: Concerns grow for Vic healthcare workers
- Headline: Woman faces court after Mt Gambier nurse allegedly spat on in ED
- Headline: Masks now mandatory for Illawarra public hospital workers, patients and visitors
- Headline: Albury nurses, paramedics, police protest against NSW government's wage freeze
- Headline: NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association demands wage freeze back down
- Headline: NSW records 7 new coronavirus cases as nurses welcome new directive on masks
- Headline: If wage freeze approved, nurses would spend $310 less in rural areas each month: Survey
- Headline: ANMF has an urgent pandemic aged care to-do list for Federal Government
- Headline: Nurses, health workers stretched during pandemic
- Headline: Urgent message for Victorians as the number of health workers infected with COVID-19 jumps
- Headline: Call to protect Victorian elderly from COVID-19 outbreaks
- Headline: Concerns grow for Vic healthcare workers
Canada
- Headline: Saskatchewan Nurses Union Calls for Mandatory Masks
- Headline: ONTARIO NURSES FEEL BETRAYED BY GOVERNMENT’S REOPENING ONTARIO BILL
- Headline: Nurses, truckers in Ontario denied health-care services over COVID-19 risk
- Headline: Make face masks mandatory: United Nurses of Alberta to City of Red Deer
- Headline: Calgary to make masks mandatory in indoor public spaces as of Aug. 1
- Headline: March to Unmask rallies decrying mandatory mask policies take place in Regina, Saskatoon
- Headline: Support for mandatory masking lower in Saskatchewan than other provinces, poll finds
- Headline: N.B. Nurses Union says nursing homes have too many casual staff when residents need familiarity
- Headline: N.B. Nurses union says casual staffing in long-term care homes ‘dangerous’
- Titre: Des syndicats veulent plus de masque N95 pour le personnel en santé
Headline: Unions want more N95 masks for health workers - Titre: Une deuxième vague pourrait être encore pire
Headline: A second wave could be even worse - Titre: Des syndicats veulent des masques N95 pour tous les travailleurs de la santé
Headline: Unions want N95 masks for all healthcare workers - Titre: COVID-19: la FIQ va en Cour contre un arrêté ministériel jugé abusif
Headline: COVID-19: the FIQ goes to court against a ministerial decree deemed abusive - Titre: Changements climatiques: des médecins pressent Ottawa d’atteindre ses cibles pour «sauver des vies»
Headline: Climate change: Doctors urge Ottawa to meet targets to "save lives" - Headline: Perspectives on personal protective equipment in acute care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Headline: Pandemic pay finally on way to healthcare workers in Thunder Bay
- Headline: Nurse practitioner position gone at health unit
- Headline: Midwives claim victory as divisional court upholds previous tribunal decision
- Headline: Nurses, business associations beg Albertans to mask up
- Headline: More free non-medical masks available for Edmontonians
- Headline: Sask. nurses union wants mandatory mask policy to manage COVID-19 spread
- Headline: Nurses push for mandatory masking, but protesters ready to push back
- Headline: Manitoba Nurses Union, Shared Health come to agreement on PPE
- Headline: Manitoba health-care workers to have more access to PPE after complaints from nurses union
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Sinatrae solicita acciones urgentes para mitigar propagación del COVID-19
Headline: Sinatrae calls for urgent actions to mitigate spread of COVID-19 - Titular: ¿Cuál es la realidad de las unidades de cuidados intensivos destinadas para COVID-19 en RD?
Headline: What is the reality of the intensive care units destined for COVID-19 in DR? - Titular: Sinatrae llama a autoridades a tomar medidas para mitigar Covid-19
Headline: Sinatrae calls on authorities to take measures to mitigate Covid-19 - Titular: Sinatrae pide hacer pruebas de COVID-19 al personal de salud
Headline: Sinatrae demands COVID-19 tests for health personnel - Titular: Sinatrae denuncia personal de salud con síntomas de Covid-19 es obligado a trabajar
Headline: Sinatrae protests that health personnel with symptoms of Covid-19 are forced to work - Titular: El diario de 100 días de una emergencia nacional
Headline: The 100-day journal of a national emergency
El Salvador
Honduras
- Titular: Según la ANEEAH: 52% de enfermeras con COVID-19 se recuperan
Headline: According to ANEEAH: 52% of nurses with COVID-19 recover - Titular: Dos médicos y una enfermera pierden la batalla al COVID-19
Headline: Two doctors and a nurse lose the battle to COVID-19 - Titular: Un 52% de enfermeros contagiados han superado el COVID-19, revela ANEEAH
Headline: 52% of infected nurses have overcome COVID-19, reveals ANEEAH - Titular: Con aplausos y globos al aire despiden a enfermera fallecida por COVID en la capital
Headline: With applause and balloons in the air, they say goodbye to the nurse who died by COVID in the capital - Titular: Inician pago de salarios atrasados y personal de enfermería desiste de paro
Headline: With back wages starting to be paid, nursing staff refrain from strike - Titular: ANEEAH: Cerca de 12 enfermeros fallecieron por Covid-19
Headline: ANEEAH: About 12 nurses died from Covid-19 - Titular: ANEEAH ASEGURA QUE 12 COMPAÑEROS PERDIERON LA BATALLA FRENTE AL COVID-19
Headline: ANEEAH ASSURES THAT 12 COMPANIONS LOST THE BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 - Titular: El Hospital San Felipe el de más baja mortalidad por COVID-19
Headline: The San Felipe Hospital has the lowest mortality from COVID-19 - Titular: El 47% de las enfermeras contagiadas de COVID-19 han vencido el virus
Headline: 47% of nurses infected with COVID-19 have expired the virus - Titular: Gobierno contrata más de 600 enfermeras para triajes de coronavirus
Headline: Government hires more than 600 coronavirus triage nurses - Titular: Hospitales psiquiátricos a asambleas informativas por pagos atrasados
Headline: Psychiatric hospitals to informational meetings for late payments
India
- Headline: Nurse Infected With COVID-19 Approaches Delhi HC After Hospital Sacks Her, 83 Staff Members
- Headline: 84 nurses sacked by hospital, say they were removed for demanding PPE kits and drinking water
Ireland
- Headline: Most nurses recovered from Covid-19 suffering post-viral fatigue
- Headline: Carlow nurses face 'toxic combination of fatigue and understaffing'
- Headline: Nurse who was hospitalised with Covid-19 criticises low staffing and says she was 'extremely burned out'
- Headline: Committee told healthcare workers 'catapulted' into pandemic
- Headline: Two-thirds of nurses who recovered from Covid-19 suffering post-viral fatigue
- Headline: Over 150 patients waiting on trolleys in Irish hospitals
- Headline: INMO records 120 patients on trolleys
- Headline: HSE says health staff may have contracted Covid-19 in ‘avoidable’ cases
- Headline: 18 patients on trolleys at Mullingar hospital today
Israel
- Titre: Grève des infirmières lundi pour manque de personnel et échec des négociations
Headline: Nurses strike Monday for understaffing and failed negotiations - Headline: Nurses Association, Treasury Fail to Reach Agreement Over Staff Shortage Ahead of Strike
- Headline: Nurses end nationwide strike
- Headline: Nurses tell ‘Post’: If not enough nurses by winter, people will die
- Headline: Israel’s nurses strike to protest extra load due to the coronavirus
- Headline: Coronavirus: Israel nurses’ union threatens strike amid staff shortages
- Headline: Israel's nursing union declares general strike over coronavirus conditions
- Headline: Israeli Nurses Threaten To Strike
- Headline: Overburdened by Virus, Israeli Nurses Plan Strike Starting Monday
- Headline: Israel: 1,055 new coronavirus cases registered since midnight, death toll at 375
- Headline: Number of active corona cases exceeds recovery rate
Italy
- Titolo: Nursind: "Bonus Covid, poco dignitoso il ping pong tra Regione e Governo"
Headline: Nursind: "Covid bonus, ping pong between Region and Government is not very dignified" - Titolo: Coronavirus, Nursind all'attacco: «Che fine ha fatto il premio promesso agli infermieri?»
Headline: Coronavirus, Nursind on the attack: "What happened to the compensation promised to the nurses?" - Titolo: Asp Trapani, il Nursind: "Ancora grave carenza di personale"
Headline: Asp Trapani, Nursind: "Still a serious shortage of staff" - Titolo: Fino a 25 infermieri in meno nelle unità operative. NurSind Pordenone chiede ispezione all’Ordine
Headline: Up to 25 fewer nurses in the operating units. NurSind Pordenone requests inspection by the Order - Titolo: VIDEO | Nursind-Cimo contro l”oscuro smantellamento’ del Sant’Orsola di Bologna
Headline: VIDEO | Nursind-Cimo against the "dark dismantling" of Sant'Orsola in Bologna - Titolo: Servono assunzioni, a rischio ferie estive. NurSind con Cgil, Cisl e Uil per lo sciopero del 24 luglio
Headline: Hiring is needed, summer holidays at risk. NurSind with CGIL, CISL and UIL to strike on July 24 - Titolo: Sanità, Nursind proclama lo stato di agitazione in Toscana
Headline: Healthcare, Nursind announces demonstration in Tuscany - Titolo: Nursind: “Infermieri del 118 non sono tutelati da sirene e lampeggianti”
Headline: Nursind: "118 nurses are not protected by sirens and flashing lights"
Japan
Kenya
- Headline: Mbagathi Hospital Medical Superintendent Accused Of Exposing Employees, Patients To Covid-19 Through Dictatorial Rules
- Headline: 12 doctors among 19 new COVID-19 cases in Nyeri - Governor Mutahi Kahiga
- Headline: Pumwani Maternity Hospital closed to new patients as fumigation begins
- Headline: Covid-19: Hospitals at ‘tipping point’ as cases increase
- Headline: Panic as 15 Pumwani Hospital Nurses Contract Covid-19
Mexico
New Zealand
- Headline: Dedicated nurses for managed isolation 'ideal' - infection control expert
- Headline: Campaign demands mandatory minimum staffing numbers in aged residential care
- Headline: Southland nurses join nationwide stop-work industrial action for equal pay
- Headline: Thousands of health nurses to stop work over pay dispute
- Headline: Medical centre staff air pay frustrations
- Headline: Nurses to walk off the job today after contract negotiations break down
- Headline: Primary health care nurses and staff to stop work
Peru
- Titular: Muertos por Covid triplican cifra oficial
Headline: Covid deaths triple official figure - Titular: Enfermera pide ayuda para su colega con COVID-19: “Manden un avión, se está muriendo” [VIDEO]
Headline: Nurse asks for help for her colleague with COVID-19: "Send a plane, she's dying" [VIDEO]
Philippines
- Headline: Beyond lip service
- Headline: ‘Covid wards understaffed’
- Headline: DoH boosts hiring of health workers
- Headline: ‘Year of Filipino Health Workers’
- Headline: Group warns of public health system breakdown
- Headline: Healthcare staff hiring to get boost
- Headline: Health workers want DBM to clarify change in gov’t nurses’ position
- Headline: Healthcare workers still struggling with PPE shortage
- Headline: Gov’t nurses get pay hike 18 years overdue
- Headline: Gov’t nurses finally get nurses long-delayed pay increases
- Headline: SLH nurses seek relief from work overload
- Headline: San Lazaro Hospital denies nurses’ complaints of ‘understaffing, overwork’
- Headline: San Lazaro nurses seek relief as COVID-19 cases continue to rise among medical staff
- Headline: ‘Overworked, underpaid’ nurses want better conditions
- Headline: San Lazaro Hospital nurses call for better treatment in silent protest
- Headline: Supply of PPE in PH enough for healthcare workers — DOH
- Headline: Reports of nurses quitting in Cebu City over pandemic worries group
- Headline: Alliance of Health Workers dismayed at denial of new franchise for ABS-CBN
- Headline: San Lazaro Hospital staff protest ‘deplorable’ working conditions
- Headline: Health workers lament ABS-CBN shutdown, loss information source amid pandemic
- Headline: Private hospitals could close down if forced to grant benefits to frontliners
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros reivindica medida que já foi tomada há um ano
Headline: Nurses Union demands measure that should have been taken a year ago - Manchete: Enfermeiros exigem progressão na carreira de 20 mil profissionais
Headline: Nurses demand career advancement for 20 thousand professionals - Manchete: Ação simbólica de protesto dos enfermeiros no Porto
Headline: Symbolic action of nurses' protest in Porto - Manchete: Sindicato quer urgência na contratação de enfermeiros para Reguengos de Monsaraz
Headline: Union wants urgency in hiring nurses for Reguengos de Monsaraz - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses exige "resolução das injustiças" no Hospital São José
Headline: Portuguese Nurses Union demands "solving injustices" at Hospital São José - Manchete: Enfermeiros denunciam falta de recursos humanos nos centros de saúde da região Centro
Headline: Nurses denounce lack of human resources in health centers in the Centro region - Manchete: Covid-19: Sindicato quer conhecer condições dos enfermeiros em Reguengos de Monsaraz
Headline: Covid-19: Union wants to know nurses' conditions in Reguengos de Monsaraz - Manchete: Covid-19. Sindicato quer discutir contratação de enfermeiros para Reguengos de Monsaraz
Headline: Covid-19. Union wants to discuss hiring nurses for Reguengos de Monsaraz - Manchete: Enfermeiros transmontanos lutam por melhores condições de trabalho
Headline: Transnational nurses strive for better working conditions - Manchete: Governo dos Açores manifesta "abertura" para receber mais 80 enfermeiros em agosto
Headline: Government of the Azores expresses "openness" to receive 80 more nurses in August
South Africa
- Headline: Frontline fears as Covid cases rise
- Headline: Battlefield Frontline Healthcare – a nurse in private hospital speaks out
- Headline: Pandemic highlights nursing crisis
- Headline: Over 300 workers at KZN hospital test positive for COVID-19
- Headline: Legal action threat against anyone who attempts to disrupt schooling
- Headline: Denosa urges honesty about COVID-19 symptoms when consulting healthcare workers
- Headline: Pounded by Covid-19, nurses live in fear as numbers surge
South Korea
- Headline: KHMU international forum “The current situation and outlook of COVID 19 of each country and Unions' future Role”
- Headline: KHMU’s Demand regarding the outbreak of COVID-19
- Headline: Presentation Materials of 2nd Virtual International Conference on COVID-19 and Role of Trade Unions
Spain
- Titular: SATSE: “El Gobierno debe priorizar la jubilación anticipada voluntaria para las enfermeras y enfermeros”
Headline: SATSE: "The Government must prioritize voluntary early retirement for nurses" - Titular: Satse lamenta la ausencia de enfermeras en la bolsa de empleo “por las malas condiciones laborales y retributivas”
Headline: Satse regrets the absence of nurses in the job exchange "due to poor working and remuneration conditions" - Titular: Satse solicita se incremente el número de enfermeras en la UCI del Hospital Infanta Margarita
Headline: Satse seeks an increase in the number of nurses in the ICU of Infanta Margarita Hospital - Titular: El sindicato de enfermería SATSE denuncia que el SMS "penaliza" a sus profesionales con "rebajas en sus retribuciones"
Headline: SATSE nursing union denounces that SMS "penalizes" its professionals with "reductions in their remuneration" - Titular: Satse alerta de que faltan más de mil enfermeras para cubrir el verano
Headline: Satse warns that more than a thousand nurses are missing to cover the summer - Titular: Satse afirma que Castilla y León se queda sin enfermeras este verano al no haber más en las bolsas de empleo
Headline: Satse affirms that Castilla y León runs out of nurses this summer as there are no more on the job boards - Titular: Satse alerta de que no hay ya enfermeras en bolsa de empleo
Headline: Satse warns that there are no longer nurses in the job market - Titular: Enfermeras y fisioterapeutas reafirman su huelga contra el SAS el próximo otoño
Headline: Nurses and physical therapists reaffirm their strike against SAS next fall - Titular: Denuncian una reducción de enfermeros de las Urgencias Pediátricas de La Paz mientras están bajo mínimos y bajo el Covid-19
Headline: Reduction in Pediatric ER nurses in La Paz denounced while they are below the minimum and under Covid-19 - Titular: Difícil encontrar enfermeras para el verano en Castilla y León, y Satse lo atribuye a las malas condiciones
Headline: Difficult to find summer nurses in Castilla y León, and Satse attributes this to poor conditions - Titular: SATSE rechaza acudir a la sanidad privada para reducir las listas de espera quirúrgicas
Headline: SATSE refuses to go to private healthcare to reduce surgical waiting lists
Taiwan
United Kingdom
- Headline: 900,000 British public sector workers are getting a pay hike, but nurses are not included
- Headline: Scrap student debt to boost nursing numbers, says RCN
- Headline: Coronavirus testing: Nurses call for investigation over slow return of results
- Headline: Increasing number of nurses thinking of leaving the profession – poll
- Headline: Their COVID-19 efforts have earned French health workers a pay rise. Will NHS staff get one too?
- Headline: Government’s Covid-19 inquiry must hear experiences of all nurses, says RCN
United States
- Headline: Nurses planted more than 160 pairs of shoes on the Capitol lawn to remember colleagues who've died from coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses place shoes on Capitol lawn for every colleague who died of coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses urge lawmakers to provide more PPE, place 164 shoes on Capitol lawn to honor lost colleagues
- Headline: Nurses ask Congress to enact workplace protections, illustrate 164 COVID-19 deaths
- Headline: Nurses to hold Washington memorial for 160 colleagues lost to Covid-19
- Titre: A Washington, 164 paires de chaussures en mémoire d'infirmières mortes du Covid-19
Headline: In Washington, 164 pairs of shoes in memory of nurses who died from Covid-19 - Headline: Union remembers 164 nurses who have died of COVID-19, pleads with Congress for more PPE
- Headline: Nurses hold vigil for colleagues, call on Congress to pass HEROES Act
- Headline: Nurses call on Senate to protect frontline healthcare workers: 164 have died from COVID-19
- Headline: US Virus Updates: Drugmakers Vow Diversity in Vaccine Trials; Fallen Nurses Honored
- Headline: Nurses demand fresh PPE from Medstar Washington Hospital Center
- Headline: National Nurses United says Washington Hospital Center needs to stop reusing N95 respirators
- Headline: Oakland nurse dies of COVID-19, fellow health care workers call for more protection
- Headline: Could COVID-19 Spikes Jeopardize Non-Urgent Care Access Again?
- Headline: (Exclusive) Nurses call on Senate to protect frontline healthcare workers: 164 have died from COVID-19
- Headline: Arizona’s first-ever nurses’ union contract signed in Tucson
- Headline: Honoring Fallen Nurses In The Fight Against COVID-19: Three Florida Nurses, Dozens More Have Died
- Headline: Virus Surge Brings Calls for Trump to Invoke Defense Production Act
- Headline: Virus protection suppliers brace for demand surge as lockdown eases
- Headline: Fawcett Memorial Hospital nurses protest 'unsafe conditions'
- Headline: Workers filed more than 4,100 complaints about protective gear. Some still died
- Headline: Abundance or shortage? Newsom and hospitals at odds over mask supply for health care workers
- Headline: Photos: Nurses hold vigil for coworker who died of the coronavirus, call for more protections
- Headline: Oakland nurse dies from COVID-19, colleagues call for better protections
- Headline: UC Davis surgical team nurses say new policy requiring mandatory OT endangers patients
- Headline: Modesto's coronavirus-stricken hospitals run out of ICU space. 'We try to stay positive'
- Headline: Labor Blasts Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Challenger For His Work At Anti-Union Law Firm
- Headline: School Unions Say They Are Excluded From Reopening Talks
- Headline: A New York City doctor who battled coronavirus along with hundreds of his patients says proper PPE is needed to keep medical workers safe, but some are again reporting shortages
- Headline: Statues versus protesters: Trump and the GOP favor the dead over the living
- Headline: America still doesn’t have enough N95 masks
- Headline: Nurses sound alarm: ‘We do not have adequate amounts of PPE’ to care for virus patients
- Headline: Hospitals struggle with PPE shortages amid new COVID-19 surges
- Headline: HCA Mission Hospital nurses seek more staffing amid COVID-19 surge
- Headline: Apparently, the United States is once again running out of masks and gloves
- Headline: Nurses At SF Hospitals Should Be Getting Regular COVID Tests. Why Aren't They?
- Headline: Nurse Strike Wave Grows – Latina Nurses Face Retaliation for Reporting Racism – Houston Nurses Strike
- Headline: Trump administration's delayed use of 1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages
- Headline: FL registered nurses file federal complaints to protest unsafe working conditions during pandemic
- Headline: FL Nurses Protest Unsafe Working Conditions
- Headline: Covid-19 And The Self-Sacrifice Of Nurses And First Responders
- Headline: Calls grow for Trump administration to aid in PPE production amid shortage
- Headline: Grappling with COVID cases, Israel’s nurses threaten strike over staff shortages
- Headline: Good Samaritan Nurses in SJ Protest Unsafe Staffing, Covid-19 Risks
- Headline: Pinellas nurses say HCA hospitals lack staff, protective gear
- Headline: Masks, Gowns in Short Supply Leave Hospital Workers Exposed
- Headline: Despite months of warning, the US could soon run out of gloves, goggles, and body bags as coronavirus cases keep surging
- Headline: Teachers, parents express concern about what 2020-21 could hold for Houston-area schools
- Headline: Florida RNs at 3 HCA hospitals file OSHA complaints alleging unsafe working conditions
- Headline: Nurses Call Conditions at HCA Hospitals "Unsafe"
- Headline: Nurses Speak Out Over Concerns Inside Hospitals Hitting Capacity
- Headline: Nurses Concerned With Rising COVID-19 Cases, But Hospital Leaders Say They're Prepared
- Headline: Union drive could inspire organized labor beyond Asheville
- Headline: Calls grow for Trump administration to aid in PPE production amid shortage
- Headline: Nurses approve first union contract in Arizona amid COVID-19
- Headline: American Healthcare Workers are Scrambling for PPE. Again.
- Headline: Hospitals’ recovery plans clash with new Covid infections
- Headline: Sonoma County hospitals prepare for coronavirus patient surge; no plans to halt elective surgeries
- Headline: Tucson nurses make history: St. Mary’s, St. Joseph’s approve union contract
- Headline: Nurses at two hospitals vote to unionize
- Headline: Why We May Run into PPE Shortages Again
- Headline: Protective Equipment for Medical Workers Once Again Running Low
- Headline: To labor cheers, Virginia OKs emergency anti-coronavirus safety standard
- Headline: Coronavirus cases rising in 41 states as Republicans scale back convention
- Headline: COVID-19 Is Changing What It Means to Be a Doctor
- Headline: Union drive could inspire organized labor beyond Asheville
- Headline: Some California Hospitals Are Overwhelmed By Virus Cases
- Headline: Good Samaritan nurses in San Jose protest unsafe staffing, COVID-19 risks
- Headline: Hospital staffing an emerging concern in Kern’s COVID-19 effort
- Headline: Duluth joins growing list of Minnesota cities to require masks
- Headline: Time for a mask mandate
- Headline: Teachers voice concerns about DCPS re-opening plan, nurse staffing issues