National Nurses Make History - Sept 1, 2011
RNs sponsor soup kitchens, food pantries, speak outs on the need for jobs, healthcare, education, housing – and outline the RN plan on how to pay for it.
Press Release
Sep 2, 2011
How Will We Pay for Obama's New Jobs Push? Answer: Tax Wall Street
President Obama is right: the United States needs a jobs program that spends federal tax dollars to retain jobs, to create jobs and to put tens of millions of Americans back to work.
The Nation
Elizabeth Warren's More Than Just a Senate Campaign
Elizabeth Warren's all-but-announced candidacy for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat once held by Edward Kennedy is a state-based campaign. But it has national implications.
The Nation
National Nurses United Endorses Consumer Advocate Elizabeth Warren for US Senate Race
Heralding the candidacy of “Main Street Hero†Elizabeth Warren, the 170,000 member National Nurses United today announced it has endorsed Warren’s exploratory candidacy for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, and urged her to officially enter the race.
Press Release
Aug 23, 2011
Nurses Protest What They Say Are Unsafe Staffing Levels
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- At least 200 registered nurses held a protest Tuesday morning to show their opposition to what they say are chronic unsafe nurse-to-patient staffing levels at Kaiser Permanente's Walnut Creek hospital, according to California Nurses Association spokeswoman Debra Grabelle.
KTVU.com
Mid-Michigan District Health Department nurses ratify four-year contract
Okemos - The registered nurses at Mid Michigan District Health Department ratified a new four year collective bargaining agreement last week, a few days before the Board of Commissioners also ratified the agreement.
Press Release
Aug 23, 2011
National Nurses Director RoseAnn DeMoro, Makes Most Influential Healthcare List 10 Straight Years
For the tenth straight year, National Nurses United Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro has won national recognition from a major healthcare industry publication as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare†which was announced today.
NNU Press Release
Aug 22, 2011
Kaiser Walnut Creek RNs picket for safe patient care, Tuesday
Registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek are holding an informational picket Tuesday, August 23, to protest chronic unsafe nurse-to-patient staffing levels, that they say are jeopardizing patient safety at the facility, the California Nurses Association announced today.
Press Release
Aug 22, 2011
Nurses say: Join Us on Sept. 1 on Main Street, Don’t Return to DC
By: Donna Smith. Main Street, USA – Nurses call their neighbors and their elected officials to come to Main Street on September 1, even as many of the elected officials continue chiding one another about returning to DC.
Main Street Blog
Demonstration draws attention to staffing problems at hospital
About 50 nurses and their family members and friends held an hour-long informational picket today outside Las Palmas Medical Center to bring public attention to what the nurses say is a staffing problem hurting patient care at the hospital.
El Paso Times