Community Long Beach RNs Vote by 76% to Join CNA/NNU
Exactly three years ago today, CNA joined with nurses from Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington DC, and a number of other states to form the largest organization of nurses in U.S. history.
CNA/NNOC Press Release
Dec 7, 2012
LA RNs Win First-in the Nation Workplace Safety Benefit
Registered nurses at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif. have enthusiastically approved a new agreement that most notably includes a precedent-setting needlestick and workplace violence insurance benefit funded by the employer, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today. More than 600 RNs represented by CNA/NNU overwhelmingly voted to accept the pact in ratification membership meetings held on Wednesday and Thursday.
CNA Press Release
Dec 7, 2012
Kaiser RNs to Picket 21 Northern, Central California Hospitals December 19 over Short Staffing
Registered nurses will picket 21 Kaiser Permanente hospitals from Santa Rosa to Fresno Wednesday, December 19 to protest what they say is persistently inadequate nurse staffing in emergency care and other hospital areas, as well as patients being turned away from needed care, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today.
CNA Press Release
Dec 7, 2012
Holy Family RNs, Supporters to Hold Candlelight Vigil for Safe Patient Care
In the spirit of the season, RNs also collecting canned goods for local food pantry. According to Gayle Burke, RN and co-chairperson of the MNA bargaining unit at Holy Family, nurses on every floor and in every unit are being forced to care for too many patients at once--a practice that has been proven to be dangerous by countless research groups and studies over the last two decades.
Mass. Nurses Assoc. Press Release
Dec 7, 2012
RNs Condemn Proposed Michigan Anti-Worker Legislation
The nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, National Nurses United, today condemned the decision by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and far right state legislators to push a so-called “right-to-work†bill in the lame duck session of the state legislature.
Dec 6, 2012
Michigan Nurses, Laborers, Other Workers Urge Gov. Snyder to Stop Harmful “Right to Work†Push
Registered nurses, laborers and food and commercial workers from across Michigan are urging Gov. Snyder to stop the politically motivated attacks on working families by publicly pledging to veto any so-called “right to work†legislation that reaches his desk.
Michigan Nurses Association Press Release
Dec 5, 2012
RNs to Hold Candlelight Vigils, Protests in 20 U.S. Cities
Nurses across the nation are turning up the heat on Congress and the White House with candlelight vigils and other actions in some 20 cities, beginning in Chicago on Thursday, December 6 and continuing across the U.S. Monday, December 10. JOIN US! Click for details.
NNU National Press Release
Dec 4, 2012
Nurses Top Poll for Honesty, Ethical Standards for 11th Straight Year
It’s become an annual tradition. Nurses are the most trusted profession in the U.S., topping the annual survey by Gallup for the 11th straight year for honesty and ethical standards of 22 occupational groups tested.
Gallup Politics
Dec 4, 2012
Don’t Push Seniors Off the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
With the November election rapidly fading into memory and the basic building blocks of a civil society once again under grave threat from Wall Street and their acolytes in Washington, nurses and other activists have, once again, had to step up the fight to protect basic programs and make the case for real revenue needed to build a sustainable future.
NNU Blog
Ralph Nader on a simple way to avoid the fiscal cliff: Tax stock trades
In the debate over the “fiscal cliff,†President Obama and congressional Republicans have returned to the proposals that they were sparring over before the election. They remain at odds over key elements of revenue and spending. Yet both sides are unwilling to consider a minuscule tax on financial transactions that could be a major source of income.
Ralph Nader Blog