CA Bill to Set Safety Protections For Patients in Hospital ‘Observation’ Heads to Floor Vote
Important legislation to enact new protections for hospital patients warehoused in “observation status†with fewer protections accorded other patients, has taken another major step forward.
California Nurses Association
Aug 3, 2016
Union Calls on Allina Nurses to Back Open-Ended Strike
The Minnesota Nurses Association on Tuesday called for nearly 5,000 Allina Health nurses to authorize an indefinite strike against five Allina hospitals. A vote is set for Aug. 18.
Mark Zdechlik, MPR News
Negotiations End as Allina Health Widens the Gap in Talks with Nurses
(St. Paul) – August 1, 2016 – Contract negotiations ended today when nurses received another offer from Allina Health that eliminates all four of their contract health insurance plans.
Minnesota Nurses Association
Aug 3, 2016
Pramila Jayapal Just Scored One of the Biggest Progressive Victories of 2016
If there is to be a political revolution sufficient to begin to usher in a new era of meaningful reform and people-powered democracy, Congress must change. A lot.
 John Nichols, The Nation
Zika Cases in Puerto Rico Are Skyrocketing
The Zika epidemic that has spread from Brazil to the rest of Latin America is now raging in Puerto Rico — and the island’s response is in chaos.
Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times
Top 10 Reasons To Continue Donations To Bernie Sanders
Try as they might, Wall Street, K Street, the corporate CEOs, and all their servants in Washington, state capitols, and the rest of the political establishment, cannot put this political revolution back in the bottle.
RoseAnn DeMoro writing for The Huffington Post
Hospitals Ordered to Recognize Nurses' Union
A federal court has ordered two West Virginia hospitals to stop blocking a democratic vote by nurses, recognize the nurses' right to join a union and bargain with them for a first collective bargaining agreement.
Tina Alvey, Register-Herald Reporter
NNU Petitions Violence Prevention in Workplace
With growing rates of violence against nurses and healthcare providers while at work, the NNU team hopes to encourage OSHA to provide a comprehensive prevention plan to stop violence before it begins.
Advanced Healthcare Network for Nurses
Federal court: BRMC, GVMC must recognize nurses union
BLUEFIELD — A federal court has ordered two West Virginia hospitals to stop blocking a democratic vote by nurses, recognize the nurses’ right to join a union and bargain with them for a first collective bargaining agreement, representatives of a nursing union said in a press release Friday.
By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Court Orders CHS Hospitals Recognize and Bargain with Registered Nurses Union
A federal court has ordered two West Virginia hospitals to stop blocking a democratic vote by nurses, recognize the nurses' right to join a union and bargain with them for a first collective bargaining agreement.
National Nurses United
Jul 28, 2016