HCA’s Good Samaritan San Jose RNs to protest unsafe staffing

Submitted by ADonahue on
Good Samaritan RNs hold signs calling for safe staffing
Registered nurses at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose will hold an action Thursday, April 1 to warn the public that severe short staffing in women’s and children’s services at the hospital is putting laboring women and newborns in danger.
California Nurses Association
Mar 30, 2021

Cal/OSHA finds Alta Bates campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center guilty of eight violations, cites Sutter for additional $141,750

Submitted by ADonahue on
RN speaks at vigil for Janine Paiste-Ponder, RN, at Sutter Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued an additional $141,750 in fines to Sutter Health—along with eight new citations—for failing to notify nurses in two units at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley, Calif. that they had been exposed to Covid.
California Nurses Association
Mar 26, 2021

University of California nurses condemn ongoing racist attacks on Asian communities

Submitted by ADonahue on
UC San Francisco RNs hold “Stop Asian Hate” action and vigil at Mission Bay campus - March 19, 2021
University of California registered nurses are outraged by the ongoing racist and xenophobic attacks against Asians and call for solidarity with Asian communities and a public commitment to solutions that work toward ending structural racism and promoting social equity and healing.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Mar 25, 2021

NNU Applauds House Committee Vote to Advance Bill Protecting Health Care, Social Service Workers from Epidemic of Workplace Violence

Submitted by njones on
Nurses holding signs "Workplace Violence puts everyone at risk"
National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s approval of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195), federal legislation that would help stem an epidemic of threats and assaults facing frontline health workers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
National Nurses United
Mar 24, 2021

Maine Elected Leaders Request Northern Light Drop its Concessionary Labor Contract Demands of Nurses

Submitted by ADonahue on
Maine State Nurses Association
A group of Maine lawmakers, including members of the Bangor City Council, today delivered a signed letter to Northern Light Home Care and Hospice in Bangor, urging the health care provider to drop its current demands for concessions of its nurses and settle their union contract.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
Mar 24, 2021

Lawmakers to Deliver Letter Urging Northern Light Home Care and Hospice to Rescind Concessionary Labor Contract Demands of Nurses

Submitted by ADonahue on
Maine State Nurses Association
State Senator Joe Baldacci will be joined by other elected leaders and Northern Light Home Care and Hospice nurses to deliver a letter to Northern Light administrators urging them to withdraw the concessionary labor contract demands it is now making against the nurses.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Mar 23, 2021