Cuts in Public Health May Cause Danger to Children, Say Ventura County RNs Who Plan Protest Thursday
A Ventura County children’s program called First 5 which provides care to an at-risk population of children up to age five, has been seriously compromised with the elimination of the five public health nurse positions who provided the care. Ventura County RNs say that this will significantly delay needed care and put children at risk. On Thursday, the nurses, who are represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, plan to protest the cuts.
Press Release
Jun 22, 2011
San Diego RNs Sound Alarm over Harm to Local Community from Economy, Health Cuts
Nurse Rallies to Heal America in San Diego, Ventura, Northern Los Angeles Counties Coincide with National Wall Street Protest
Press Release
Jun 22, 2011
Antelope Valley RNs Sound Alarm over Harm to Community from Economy, Health Cuts
Antelope Valley Hospital RNs represented by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United are identifying broad declines in health tied to economic hardship and obstacles to healthcare coverage.
Press Release
Jun 21, 2011
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.