RNs Call on Sutter to Keep Open Thunder Road, Sole Alameda County Residential Rehab Center for Teens
Registered nurses are calling on the wealthy Sutter corporation to keep open an endangered residential drug and alcohol treatment center in Oakland for teenagers, including those from low income families.
California Nurses Association
Apr 13, 2015
Nurses Call on Sutter to Keep Open Thunder Road Teen Treatment Center
Registered nurses are calling on the wealthy Sutter corporation to keep open an endangered residential drug and alcohol treatment center in Oakland for teenagers, including those from low income families.
California Nurses Association
Apr 9, 2015
The Robin Hood Tax Day of Action honoring MLK was a moment of solidarity in values
Across the country —from Palo Alto to El Paso, Maine to Miami—nurses and other activists rallied today in the late winter sun to lobby Congressional lawmakers for a tax on Wall Street’s riskiest transactions.
National Nurses United
Henry Mayo Valencia Vigil Thursday 5 p.m.
Registered nurses at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia will hold a vigil late Thursday afternoon to protest demands by the hospital administration for significant cuts in nurses’ legal rights and the hospital’s delays for talks on a new collective bargaining agreement.
Apr 8, 2015
California Nurses Join National Day of Action Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Registered nurses and community activists will hold a vigil and petition California congress members Wednesday, April 8 to highlight the call for a small tax on Wall Street speculation, the Robin Hood Tax, that would help raise the revenue needed to fulfill the goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for social and economic justice in our nation.
California Nurses Association
Apr 7, 2015
Vigils at Legislative Offices in 25 Cities - April 8
With Americans marking the 47th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. just days earlier, a broad coalition of registered nurses, organized labor, anti-AIDS advocates, college students, clergy, and other community activists will converge on 25 U.S. cities Wednesday to amplify the call for a Wall Street financial transactions tax to reverse the country’s crippling inequality.
National Nurses United
Apr 6, 2015
Nurses Lead “Reclaim Chicagoâ€
With a runoff vote just days away, one Chicago politician figures almost as prominently in the city’s mayoral campaign as do the two candidates themselves, incumbent Rahm Emmanuel and his challenger, Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy†Garcia.
Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio
Conversations with Kay, Part 2
Recently, we started a regular item featuring the life and nursing career stories of Kay McVay, a longtime intensive care unit RN at Kaiser Permanente and president emeritus of the California Nurses Association.
California Nurses Association
Nurses Join Military on Mission to 11 Countries to Provide Humanitarian Aid
Nurse volunteers with Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster relief project of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Foundation, will embark this week upon the USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), a Military Sealift Command ship, joining military personnel and health care professionals, engineers and environmental experts for a humanitarian mission that includes mission stops in 11 countries in South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
RN Response Network
Apr 3, 2015
Labor Board Throws Out Sutter Memorial Election Citing Hospital’s Coercion, Trampling of RN Rights
The federal board that oversees labor-management relations has thrown out the flawed union election last June at Sutter Memorial Medical Center in Modesto citing a pattern of coercion and other actions by hospital officials that violated the rights of registered nurses who were considering affiliation with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
California Nurses Association
Apr 2, 2015