URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Nurses to UC President Napolitano
It is appalling that UC Management would attempt to destroy and destabilize our nurses retirement after we’ve spent our lifetime taking care of our patients. Today join your colleagues in letting President Napolitano know that attempting to destabilize our pension is bad for patient care.
California Nurses Association
Tentative Pact for Registered Nurses at DC’s Biggest Hospital, Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Registered nurses at Washington DC’s largest hospital, Medstar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC), reached a tentative agreement with hospital officials Monday on a new collective bargaining contract that achieves significant patient care as well as economic improvements that nurses say will promote RN recruitment and retention.
National Nurses Organizing Committee - Washington DC
Jun 1, 2015
Nurses and Patient Advocates to Testify at Hearing on Hospital Profit Transparency & Fairness Act
Nurses and health care advocates will testify at a hearing before the Massachusetts Health Care Financing Committee on the Hospital Profit Transparency and Fairness Act.
Massachusetts Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Jun 1, 2015
Part 2 of 5: Nurses and Why They're Critical in the Legislative Process
Don Nielsen, Director, Government Relations for CNA visited with Nurse Talk about nurses and the critical reasons they are involved in the legislative process.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Part 1 of 5: Nurse Talk speaks with CNA Director of Gov't Relations, Don Nielsen
California Nurses Association Director of Government Relations, Don Nielsen joins Nurse Talk to discuss the critical issues facing nurses as they advocate for their patients.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Nurses Settle on Contract
Fifteen months of fighting has ended abruptly but more amicably for both sides of a contract dispute at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. Late Thursday, the hospital Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve a five-year contract with nurses of the California Nurses Association.
Roberto M. Robledo, The Californian
RNs at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Overwhelmingly Vote to Ratify New Contract
At membership meetings on Wednesday, registered nurses at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital (SVMH) voted overwhelmingly—by 98.5 percent—to ratify a new contract with the hospital, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today.
California Nurses Association
May 28, 2015
Eastern Maine Medical Center Refuses to Address Key Safety Issues as RNs' Contract Expires
The three-year contract between Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) and the registered nurses represented by the Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses United (MSNA/NNU) is set to expire as the Medical Center refuses to address nurses’ safety concerns.
National Nurses United
May 28, 2015
Hospital Hospice Services to End Next Month
A program that has been available for decades through a Lackawanna County hospital will soon be coming to an end. Eyewitness News has learned that the owners of Regional Hospital of Scranton will stop providing inpatient and home hospice services at the end of next month.
National Nurses Organizing Committee
Sanders Bill Signals Growth of Broad Robin Hood Tax Movement
Seven years after Wall Street gamblers wrenched the U.S. economy into the worst economic swoon since the Great Depression, the movement to make the high rollers pay some restitution to people and communities harmed by their profligacy is gaining stream.
RoseAnn DeMoro writing for Common Dreams