New Study Shows Dramatic Revenue Potential from a Wall Street Tax
A robust tax on Wall Street transactions would raise far more revenue – as much as 17 times as much – than more limited proposals, even accounting for the worst case scenarios of reduced trading as a result of a tax. That’s the findings of an important new research brief from prominent University of Massachusetts Amherst economists Robert Pollin and James Heintz.
NNU Press Release
Jan 9, 2012
Chicago Landslide -- Jackson Park Hospital RNs Vote By 85 Percent to Join Nation's Largest RN Union
Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side voted by 85 percent Friday to join National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union and professional association of RNs.
NNU Press Rlease
Jan 6, 2012
Nurses to Join Call for Healthcare for the 99% in Monday Rallies
A broad coalition of activists – including registered nurses, medical students, seniors, physicians, members of the Occupy movement, and the recently formed Campaign for a Health California (CHC) – will hold marches and rallies Monday, January 9 in Sacramento and Los Angeles to step up the campaign to extend guaranteed healthcare coverage to all Californians.
CNA Press Release
‘A Nightmare on Wall Street’ – Nurses Premiere New Video
Kicking off the new year in which the ongoing economic crisis will continue to plague millions of American families, the nation’s largest nurses’ organization today unveiled a dramatic short video, “A Nightmare on Wall Street†to renew the push for a tax on Wall Street speculation to raise critically needed funds to heal America.
Jan 6, 2012
Nurses' union wins bargaining agreement
A federal appeals court agreed that an agreement between union nurses and a hospital should have been honored by new owners.
McKnights.com
Why Do Nurses Join Unions? Because They Can
Lost for many observers in last month's end-of-the-year hullabaloo was the annual Gallup Honesty and Ethics Survey which by a wide margin again ranked nursing as the most honest and ethical profession.
HealthLeadersMedia.com
The Politics of Lowered Expectations
Ezra Klein, the bright, young, economic policy columnist for the "Washington Post" believes that Obama came out ahead last year in the "administration's bitter, high-stakes negotiations with the Republicans in Congress."
By Ralph Nader
6,000 California RNs Hold One-Day Strike: Dec 22
Voicing concern over the erosion of quality of care and cuts to patient protections, nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach, and 4,000 RNs who work at nine Bay Area facilities that are part of the Sutter Health corporation, are on a one-day strike today.
Press Release
Dec 22, 2011
My Word: Nurses' fight is to ensure quality health care
By Michele Ross, RN and Elsa Matos-Leal, RN - While most people are decorating trees and planning holiday parties, Sutter's registered nurses have been sitting at bargaining tables around the Bay Area. Despite the pull of the holiday season, we are fighting for health care -- both protecting the health of our patients by holding the line on patient-care protections Sutter wants to eradicate, and stopping unwarranted cuts to health care coverage for our families.
Oakland Tribune
Nurses Accuse Equity Firm of Cutting Patient Care
Instead of the inflatable rat that has become ho-hum at union protests in New York, a giant three-headed dog with fangs was the effigy on display as about 250 unionized nurses rallied outside the Midtown headquarters of the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.
New York Times