RNs Offer to Postpone Strike if Sutter Withdraws
Registered nurses who work at Sutter corporation hospitals in Northern California today offered to postpone a planned one-day strike Tuesday against eight Sutter hospitals if the hospital chain withdraws the sweeping concessions it is demanding in RN and patient care standards.
CNA Press Release
Apr 20, 2012
Oppose AB 2348 proposed by Assemblymember Holly Mitchell
California Nurses Association calls it a major encroachment on nurse practitioners’ practice and unsafe expansion of registered nurses’ scope of practice.
Nurses, Robin Hood, Prepare to Converge on Chicago May 18
Will Search for AWOL World Leaders in Colorful March with Plan to Heal U.S. and Global Economies, Joined by Occupy Movement and Broad Coalition of Over 65 Environmental, Labor, Health Groups
Apr 20, 2012
Kaiser Nurses Protest Plans to Close Hayward Pediatric Unit
Nurses in Hayward are protesting plans to close a Kaiser Permanente inpatient pediatric unit. Listen to the audio clip that aired this morning:
KQED - NPR
Nurses Say Kaiser Will Make Kids Drive Too Far For Hospital Care
Protestors in Hayward say that when a pediatric hospital wing in that city is closed in 2014, a new kid's hospital unit should be opened in San Leandro.
Union City Patch
MNA Nurses help make history with passage of Vulnerable Adult legislation
ST. PAUL (April 18, 2011) – MNA nurses helped make history this week, as Minnesota became the first state to declare criminal neglect of a vulnerable adult a felony while also protecting the rights of healthcare workers.
Apr 17, 2012
Children’s March to Protest Kaiser Hayward Closure of Vital Pediatrics Unit
TUESDAY 4:00-7:00 p.m. -- Several hundred children, parents, and concerned community members along with RNs will hold a children’s march and rally to protest the closure of the inpatient pediatrics unit at Kaiser Permanente located in Hayward. Over 2,000 young children and teenagers received care in the Kaiser Hayward pediatrics unit in 2011 alone, Kaiser RNs report. Kaiser is planning to close the unit despite record profits.
Apr 16, 2012
Palomar Health Chief Exec’s Wages Land At No. 2 In State
DeAnn McEwen, co-president of the California Nurses Association, said the district has laid off workers and pushed back the opening of clinics in Ramona and Valley Center. “To support that kind of salary, I think it’s unconscionable,†McEwen said. “They are holding back on what the voters are paying for.â€
Singh Earns Endorsement from Michigan Nurses Association for 69th House District
OKEMOS– The Michigan Nurses Association has endorsed Sam Singh for Michigan’s 69th House District, noting his long record of public service in the community and his advocacy of nonprofits and charities.
Apr 9, 2012
SMC, NLRB dispute continues
Nurses and union officials claim that St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center has violated a days-old agreement to stop activities cited in a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, so the complaints have been reinstated.
The Pueblo Chieftain