Video: Sutter RN Talks About the Strike to Protect Nurses' Rights
Sutter profits are at an all time high ($3 billion in profits the last five years and $8.3 billion in net assets) and now they are proposing cuts. The nurses remain concerned about inadequate staffing and other patient care concerns.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Nurses Join Teachers, Homeowners to Voice Opposition to Phillips 66 Oil Train Project
Registered nurse will join with teachers and homeowners Tuesday to urge Pismo city leaders to oppose a controversial Phillips 66 proposal to add five additional rail shipments a week of dirty tar sands crude oil through the center of San Luis Obispo County to Phillips’ Santa Maria refinery.
California Nurses Association
May 4, 2015
Nurses Welcome Introduction of Legislation to Improve Veterans’ Health Care
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
Apr 30, 2015
Thousands of RNs Set to Strike Five Sutter Hospitals Thursday
Registered nurses will be on strike at hospitals operated by the profitable Sutter corporation Thursday in a one-day walkout protesting inadequate staffing and other patient care concerns and corporate demands for some 130 cuts in health coverage for the RNs and their families.
California Nurses Association
Apr 29, 2015
RN Strikes Thursday, Friday at 3 Big Los Angeles Hospitals
Thousands of California registered nurses will be on strike this week, including RNs at three major Southern California area hospitals in Los Angeles, Torrance, and Santa Monica who are among some 5,000 California RNs who will join walkouts on those days.
California Nurses Association
Apr 29, 2015
Neutral Factfinder Rejects Salinas Hospital’s Plan to Eliminate Charge Nurses
An impartial fact finding report made public today on the dispute between Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital and its registered nurses endorses many of the central issues raised by the RNs on patient care delivery and a controversial restructuring plan sought by the hospital.
California Nurses Association
Apr 29, 2015
Chicago Strike Off- RNs, University of Chicago Reach Tentative Agreement to Settle Dispute
Following an intensive day of contract talks, University of Chicago Medical Center registered nurses and hospital administrators reached a tentative agreement late Monday night on a new collective bargaining agreement, National Nurses United announced Tuesday morning.
National Nurses United
Apr 28, 2015
Senate Health Committee to Consider CA Charity Care & ‘Observation’ Standards Care Bills
First hearings on two RN-sponsored California bills, to hold California non-profit hospitals accountable on how much charity care and community benefit services they provide in return for their tax-exempt status and to address the hospital abuse of “observation†status, are scheduled for their first public airing this week by the Senate Health Committee.
California Nurses Association
Apr 27, 2015
RNRN Statement on the Devastating Earthquake in Nepal
RNRN staff have been closely monitoring and and have been in touch with our disaster relief allies as events unfold in Nepal after the devastating 7.8 earthquake struck this past Saturday.
RN Response Network
Nurse Ann Wayt wins $2 million union organizing case against Massillon hospital
MASSILLON, Ohio – Ann Wayt recently won a $2 million award against Affinity Medical Center after the hospital fired her and attempted to ruin her reputation for helping unionize nurses.
Many may think the size of the jury award the most important words in that sentence. For Wayt, a registered nurse for 38 years, one word stands out as the most important -- "reputation." She had always excelled at nursing, especially in patient care. The hospital had even admitted that, giving her its Nurse Excellence Award in 2008.
Cleveland Plain Dealer