Texas Legend Jim Hightower to Join El Paso Forum May 14 to Highlight Dangers of Trade Pact
Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, also well known as a national radio commentator, columnist, and prolific author, will join with El Paso labor, community, and faith based organizations in two events Thursday, May 14 to highlight opposition to a controversial trade pact.
National Nurses Organizing Committee - Texas
May 13, 2015
NLRB rightly ordered obstinate employer to pay union’s negotiating expenses
“Far from the run-of-the-mill failure to bargain,†a health care employer deliberately obstructed any meaningful negotiations with the union that won an election to represent employees at one of its acute-care hospitals.
Lisa Milam-Perez, J.D., Wolters Kluwer
Nurses Take to Downtown Streets in Protest
Before marching on the state Capitol, CNA nurses rally in the lobby of the California Hospital Association in downtown Sacramento.
Lezlie Sterling, The Sacramento Bee
Nurses Demonstrate for Patient Care Bill & Against VA Management Attacks
Registered nurses marked International Nurses’ Day with two actions in the District of Columbia aimed at protecting patients and caregivers.
National Nurses United
May 12, 2015
D.C. Circuit Says Hospital Must Pay Union's Negotiating Expenses
A U.S. appeals court on Friday affirmed a rare decision by the National Labor Relations Board ordering an employer to pay a unions' negotiating expenses, saying the board has broad discretion to decide the types of egregious conduct that warrant the unusual remedy.
Daniel Wiessner, Reuters
When Hospitals Move, Who Gets Left Behind?
A growing number of hospitals are relocating to wealthier towns, citing financial necessity, but many see it as a choice to abandon the residents of poorer areas.
Phil Galewitz for The Atlantic
U.S. Court of Appeals to CHS: Repay Unions for Willful Bargaining Failures
The District of Columbia-based U.S. Court of Appeals has issued a rare, scathing order to the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems, requiring it to repay all of a union’s costs incurred in efforts to bargain a contract for registered nurses at a San Diego hospital.
Writing for the court May 8, Senior Judge Harry Edwards, the court’s former Chief Judge, rejected CHS’ Fallbrook Hospital’s appeal of an April, 2014, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that Fallbrook acted in an “obstinate and pugnacious†manner in unlawfully refusing to bargain with nurses represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
National Nurses United
May 8, 2015
Hundreds of California RNs to Gather at Capitol May 12
Hundreds of registered nurses from across California will gather in Sacramento Tuesday, May 12 on the anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale to encourage state legislators to step up efforts to improve protections for hospital patients, and stop an attack on regulatory safeguards.
California Nurses Association
May 8, 2015
Nurses Welcome Introduction of Legislation to Improve VA Care, RN Patient Advocacy Rights
Registered nurses today applauded the introduction of federal legislation to improve patient care for veterans, ensure equity among federal health care workers, and enable the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain a strong health care work force to serve the nation’s veterans.
National Nurses United
May 8, 2015
Nurses Week: Celebrating Nurse Power!
Happy Nurses Week! We’re marking this time by celebrating Nurse Power! Throughout the week, we’re highlighting a few moments in our history that show what happens when nurses organize, act collectively and bring about social change.
National Nurses United