Children’s Hospital Oakland RNs Authorize Five-Day Strike
Registered nurses from Children’s Hospital Oakland voted Tuesday to authorize their nurse negotiators to call up to a five-day strike if necessary to protest ongoing management efforts to sharply reduce healthcare coverage for nurses and their families. No date has been set for a strike, and additional contract talks are scheduled for April 26.
Press Release
Apr 20, 2011
Florida Medical Center RNs Vote by 83 Percent to Join NNOC-Florida
Registered nurses at Florida Medical Center, located in Lauderdale Lakes, voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to become the newest members of the rapidly growing Florida affiliate of the nation’s largest union and professional association of RNs, National Nurses United. Florida Medical Center is owned by the national hospital chain Tenet Healthcare.
Press Release
Apr 20, 2011
Patient safety should be a priority everywhere
The disrespect Eastern Maine Medical Center Board Chairman Mike McInnis shows in his March 19 commentary toward nurses who have devoted years of service to our patients and our community, and his dismissive tone about our serious concerns about patient safety, demonstrates why we continue to have a dispute at EMMC.
Bangor Daily News
Alameda County must accept St. Rose offer for San Leandro Hospital
THE FUTURE of San Leandro Hospital has been in doubt for more than two years, but at long last there is now hope to save the hospital -- and to save the lives of untold numbers of its patients. Seeing this hope to fruition must become an urgent priority for all Alameda County policy makers.
Oakland Tribune
Waiting for the Spark
What could start a popular resurgence in this country against the abuses of concentrated, avaricious corporatism? Imagine the arrogance of passing on to already cheated working people and the jobless enormous corporate losses? This is achieved through government bailouts and tax escapes.
In The Public Interest
Saint John’s nurses petition to hold union election
SAINT JOHN'S — Nurses at Saint John's Health Center have formally petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election, a step organizers say is a decade in the making.
Santa Monica Daily Press
University of Chicago Medical Center nurses vote to authorize strike
CHICAGO — Union nurses at University of Chicago Medical Center have voted to authorize a strike, but an interim contract will keep them on the job until at least the end of June.
Daily Reporter
Nurses poised to strike at UC Medical Center
CHICAGO—Unionized nurses have voted to authorize a strike against the University of Chicago Medical Center.
WGN Chicago
Sutter Roseville, Auburn Faith RNs Approve New Contract
Registered nurses at Sutter Health hospitals in Roseville and Auburn have overwhelmingly voted to ratify new three year agreements that provide for important gains in patient protections, and compensation, while protecting the nurses’ health coverage and retirement security, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United announced today.
Press Release
Apr 15, 2011
Insurance commissioner joins lawsuit alleging fraudulent billing by Sutter Health
Sutter Health hospitals routinely charged insurers for anesthesia services that were never performed, bogus bills that potentially ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars, the state's insurance commissioner alleged Wednesday in joining a lawsuit against the Sacramento-based health network.
Sacramento Bee