Marquette Labor Council First in State to Back Main Street Contract
Marquette, MI – Last night, the Marquette County Labor Council, a chapter of the Michigan State AFL-CIO, unanimously joined with over 170,000 registered nurses across the nation in support of the Main Street Contract.
Press Release
Jun 17, 2011
Nurses Take on Wall Street
From Maine to California, nurses have launched a campaign for a new direction for America to reverse the disastrous course of policies that demand ever more hardship for Main Street, while giving more tax breaks and special favors to Wall Street.
Main Street Blog
National Nurses United Launches Economic Education Drive
Bringing their outspokenness to the entire country, National Nurses United is launching a nationwide economic education drive, saying they will speak out about income and economic inequality and its impact on themselves and their patients – and get the rest of the country to do so, too.
Press Associates Union News Service
Nurses Union Keeps Pressure On Health Care Overhaul
Hundreds of nurses from across the country rallied to support broader access to health care and to call for higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
Kaiser Health News
RNs Lead Community Rally in NYC June 22 to Heal America
Registered nurses, joined by labor and community leaders and activists, will rally in front of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, June 22, to call for a sales tax on Wall Street speculative activity. The tax would raise revenue to rebuild the nation. Rally participants tie financial speculation to the present economic crisis.
Press Release
Jun 13, 2011
Unions: D.C.’s Broken Ambulances Too Hot to Handle
This week, the District has been besieged by relentless heat. It’s uncomfortable, perhaps even more so, for those on the verge of death. When that's the case, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, and registered nurses think D.C. ambulances shouldn't be a very uncomfortable 107 degrees.
Washington City Paper
Nurses' Main Street Campaign to Rebuild America
In every city and town across America today there is a "Mr. Cellophane," as the musical Chicago put it, and other men, women, and children who seem to have become invisible to those who set policy in Washington and to the financiers on Wall Street who put them in the shadows.
Hospital Building Battle Moves to SF City Hall
The ongoing battle between California Pacific Medical Center and city leaders and union and community groups over its plans to build a new hospital intensified this week, when the health care provider said it could not afford to meet the city's conditions for developing a site on Cathedral Hill.
The Bay Citizen
March on Wall Street for the Damage Done to Main Street
An international day of action to make Wall Street Pay - nurses are joining workers to demand jobs, guaranteed healthcare, quality public education, fair housing and enactment of a Financial Transaction Tax (Wall Street sales tax)
Blog
Nurses Rally for Health Care Funding
Hundreds of members of the nation’s largest nurses’ union demonstrated outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
New York Times Blog