CA Nurses Healthcare Tour in Santa Ana Wed. with Screenings and Town Hall, as Court Ruling Looms
Local stats show great need for healthcare overhaul—23.5% of adults uninsured, 11.9% of adults unable to see a doctor due to cost
Jun 20, 2012
Standing Room Only Crowd Greets San Diego Opening of Medicare for All Tour, Next Stop Santa Ana
San Diego – Take heart, America. After an historic day of action in the worldwide launch of the Robin Hood Tax campaign, the nurses of National Nurses United kicked off the California statewide bus tour for Medicare For All to a standing room only crowd in San Diego.
Donna Smith
Nurses Tell Rep. Liss: Stop Betraying Your Profession!
State Rep. Lesia Liss (D-Warren) is betraying the nursing profession by supporting the silencing of female legislators, the Michigan Nurses Association said today. Liss, an emergency room nurse, voted for legislation last week that dangerously restricts women’s health care options and said today that criticism of House Republicans for banning the two female leaders from speaking is “making women look bad.â€
Jun 20, 2012
Michigan Nurses Association Proud to Represent RNs at Cheboygan Campus of McLaren Northern Michigan
CHEBOYGAN – The Michigan Nurses Association today praised McLaren Health Care Corporation for recognizing it as the official collective bargaining agent of the nurses at the former Cheboygan Memorial Hospital, adding stability to the community’s health care after months of uncertainty.
Jun 20, 2012
Why Jamie Dimon and His Wall Street Buddies Need to Pay a Robin Hood Tax
A modest tax on speculative financial transactions would be some restitution for the human costs of this bank-made crisis.
the guardian
Are Nurses Headed to War with SEIU?
On June 15, a day after a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) official asked labor leaders not to oppose a change to nurse-patient ratios, California Nurses Association (CNA) Executive Director Rose Ann De Moro sent a blistering e-mail to her colleagues: “It is a war, of that I am certain, and it will not be pretty.â€
IN THESE TIMES
MAJOR NEW CAMPAIGN FOR A ROBIN HOOD TAX ON WALL STREET LAUNCHES IN U.S. TODAY
Tax on Wall Street Transactions Could Raise Hundreds of Billions in the US for Education, Jobs, Health Care and to Address AIDS, Climate Here and Around the World
Jun 19, 2012
CNA Wages War Against UHW in California Claiming Attempt to Suspend Staffing Ratios
A war has erupted between two health care unions in California over an attack by one of the unions on the state's nurse-to-patient ratios.
BNA/Bloomberg
CNA and SEIU-UHW Battle Over Labor's Future
Going public with longstanding concerns about SEIU-UHW's partnership with the hospital industry, California Nurses Association leader RoseAnn DeMoro called SEIU-UHW head Dave Regan “overtly disgraceful†and “an enormous embarrassment to the labor movement†in a June 14 email.
BeyondChron
Health Care Unions In California Split Over Nurse-To-Patient Ratios
One labor union’s position on nurse-to-patient ratios in California hospitals has outraged other unions that represent registered nurses in the state. In California, hospitals are required by law to maintain certain nurse-to-patient ratios at all times -- a hard-won legal stipulation that went into effect in 2004 and has wide support among nurses as well as patient advocates in the state.