URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Nurses to UC President Napolitano

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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

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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

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Nurses Settle on Contract

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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

Hospital Hospice Services to End Next Month

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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

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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