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
AFL-CIO chief amplifies warning to Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka amplified his call for a politically independent labor movement Tuesday and said unions too often are holding "a canceled check" after Election Day.
The Hill
Remarks of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at NNU Washington DC Assembly
"...I love the way nurses fight for patients, for quality care, for fairness and progressive values! You’re standing tall all across our country, and you make the entire labor movement better for it! You make America better... every single day."
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Nursing Union Goes to Washington
Nurses are rallying in Washington, DC, Tuesday to bring attention to average Americans' healthcare hardships, saying the economic downturn has resulted in a healthcare emergency for many in this country.
HealthLeaders Media
Blue Shield to cap profits at 2 percent
Blue Shield of California today unveiled a pledge to limit its profits to 2 percent a year and give back anything over that amount to its health care providers and policyholders.
San Francisco Chronicle
1,000 Nurses, Activists to Protest Chamber of Commerce Today
Some 1,000 registered nurses, joined by labor and community supporters will picket the Washington DC headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce today, and rally outside the White House and Congress to call for a new direction for the American People.
Press Release
Jun 7, 2011
Nurses Call for ‘Main Street Contract’ To Reverse National Priorities, Policies
National Nurses United, the country's largest union and professional association representing registered nurses, is launching a campaign to reverse national priorities and policies that have put the interests of Wall Street ahead of the crisis facing American families today, the union announced June 6.
Bureau of National Affairs
Nurses: Failure is Not Possible
Ashley Forsberg, a Michigan RN, held the microphone Monday to share a quote she saw during a recent visit to the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, the historic Washington, D.C. headquarters of the National Woman’s Party. “Failure is not possible,†she recited.
National Nurses Movement