RN GUEST OPINION: Caring for Morton Hospital’s smallest patients
As I write this letter, I am surrounded by my own young children’s playful laughter and I am both sad and angry for the community I have cared for over the years. This is a dark day for the families of our community.
Taunton Daily Gazette
SOUTH FLORIDA NURSES WIN FIRST UNION CONTRACTS
South Florida registered nurses this week are celebrating their first ever collective bargaining agreement at Florida Medical Center (FMC) and Palmetto General Hospital, with terms they say will both improve patient care as well as secure economic gains for nurses and their families.
Caribbean Today
Diminished Patient Protection Forces RNs at Steward Quincy Medical Center to Call For One-Day Strike
QUINCY, MA — To protest dangerous staffing conditions at their hospital, today registered nurses at Cerberus-Steward- owned Quincy Medical Center issued a required 10-day notice of their intent to conduct a one-day strike on Thursday, April 11. The strike will be the first nurses’ strike at a Greater Boston hospital in more than 25 years and it has been sanctioned by the most overwhelming nurses strike vote in Massachusetts history.
Massachusetts Nurses Association
Apr 2, 2013
Health Care Employees CNA, Sutter Reach Agreement for California Pacific, St. Luke's Nurses
SAN FRANCISCO—Registered nurses who are members of the California Nurses Association will vote in April on a new 34-month proposed contract with California Pacific Medical Center that includes a 6 percent wage increase and guaranteed meal and rest breaks, the union announced March 27.
BNA
Federal healthcare law could boost some California premiums by 30%
The federal healthcare law will help cause insurance premiums to rise 30% on average for many middle-income Californians next year, but lower-income consumers could save up to 84%, a new government report says.
LAtimes.com
NURSE TALK RADIO: Win for Chicago RNs and National Nurses United!
Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side reached an agreement with hospital officials on their first ever collective bargaining contract that includes significant improvements in patient care protections.
Nurse Talk Radio
Letter: Hospital staffing needs accountability
I'm a registered nurse who actually knows what patients need when they're in the hospital. So I was outraged by The Detroit News' distorted editorial about a bill to require all Michigan hospitals to meet minimal levels of nurse staffing (March 14, "State shouldn't mandate hospital staffing levels").
The Detroit News by: Julia Morrissey, RN
Jeff Breslin: Workers' spirit stronger than Right To Work
The undemocratic, illegal process used to pass that law was shameful. The bills were rushed through the Legislature in a way Michigan has never seen, without public comment and with citizens locked out of the Capitol at times.
Lansing State Journal, by Jeff Breslin, RN
Assembly to Consider Bill to Hold Hospitals Accountable on Charity Care Obligation
The California Assembly Health Committee will hold the first hearings April 2 on two bills sponsored by the California Nurses Association, including one that has already drawn considerable interest on holding hospitals more accountable in meeting their charity care and community benefit obligations.
California Nurses Association
Mar 27, 2013
Nurses Welcome First Contract at Two South Florida Hospitals
South Florida registered nurses this week are celebrating their first ever collective bargaining agreement at Florida Medical Center (FMC) and Palmetto General Hospital, with terms they say will improve patient care as well as secure economic gains for nurses and their families.
NNOC Florida / NNU
Mar 27, 2013