RN Jean Ross on Solidarity with Britain’s Nurses on Nurse Talk Radio, Feb. 18-19, 2012
Updates on recent U.S. rallies organized by nurses to support their counterparts in Great Britain.
Nurse Talk Radio
Santa Monica RNs to Picket Thursday
Registered nurses at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica will picket the hospital Thursday morning to protest what they see as stalling by hospital officials in reaching a fair negotiated agreement for the RNs that would enhance patient safety and help retain experienced RNs at the hospital.
NNU Press Release
Feb 15, 2012
U.S. Healthcare in a Glance
The percentage of adults with no health insurance is the highest on record, 17.3 percent of adults as of the third quarter of 2011. Three years ago, in the third quarter of 2008, only 14.4 percent of adults lacked health insurance.
CNA / IHSP
Saint John’s Nurses To Picket Thursday
On Thursday, from 8 to 11 a.m., Saint John’s Hospital nurses will hold an informational picket on Santa Monica Boulevard between 23rd and 20th Streets.
Santa Monica Dispatch
RNs Tuesday to Join Growing Protest Over San Mateo Plan to Close Burlingame Long Term Care Facility
San Mateo County registered nurses Tuesday will join an outpouring of community residents who plan to pack a special hearing of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors on a proposal to close a 240-bed long-term care facility in Burlingame.
NNU Press Release
Feb 13, 2012
Nurses flex their political muscle in Sacramento and across California
Rose Ann DeMoro is always ready for another fight. And why not? During the past decade, the leader of the California Nurses Association has won so many of her battles.
Sacramento Bee
Nurses to Rally at Florida Medical Center Over Hospital Conditions
Fort Lauderdale - Registered Nurses, members of the National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida and National Nurses United -- the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the country, with 170,000 members -- will hold a Respect Registered Nurses rally at The Florida Medical Center campus (FMC) of North Shore Medical Center – a Tenet hospital. There are 238 RNs on staff at FMC.
Feb 3, 2012
Sutter Santa Rosa RNs Overwhelmingly Ratify New Agreement
Registered nurses at Sutter Santa Rosa Medical Center voted Tuesday night for a new 30-month collective bargaining agreement for the 350 RNs that will strengthen patient protections and maintain affordable healthcare coverage for nurses and their families, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today.
CNA Press Release
Feb 2, 2012
Of Taxes and Real Entitlement
Robin Hood rides to France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has followed through on his promise to put before parliament a financial transaction tax – calling it a “Robin Hood Tax†– of 0.1% on stock trades to commence in August, according to reports. Absent from the tax: bond sales. Sarkozy also proposed raising the basic consumption tax (VAT) by 1.6 percent, to 21.2 percent, and upping by 2 percentage points the taxes paid on financial profits. His proposed targets of new revenue: an increase in construction of low-income housing and creation of an “industry bank†to make cheaper loans to small and medium companies.
Protest in the USA Blog
Nation Recognizes Nuclear Test Downwinders
Today (Jan. 27) is the first annual National Downwinders Day. Downwinders are the folks in western states who were affected by radiation exposure from nuclear test sites in Nevada. Last year the U-S Senate voted unanimously to honor downwinders with a special day of recognition.
KPBS