St. Mary-Corwin Pledges to Cease Illegal Acts Against Nurses, RNs Call for Fair Elections
Facing a federal trial over illegal harassment and coercion of its registered nurses, St. Mary Corwin Medical Center has reached an agreement with the federal agency that oversees labor relations to cease and desist illegal harassment and coercion of its registered nurses who favor union representation.
Press Release
Dec 2, 2010
Fourth Florida Hospital RNs Join NNOC-Florida for Union Voice
Registered nurses at another Florida hospital have joined the growing movement of Florida nurses to affiliate with the nation’s largest union and professional association of RNs.
Press Release
Dec 2, 2010
Nurses Blast ‘Final’ Debt Panel Report, Call on Washington to Protect Retirement Security
The revised, final report by the president’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility is an “unwarranted, outrageous attack on the health, safety, and retirement security of millions of nurses and tens of millions of other working people and should be immediately rejected by the Obama administration and Congress,†said the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses today.
Press Release
Dec 1, 2010
7 California HMOs slapped with $5 million in fines for underpaying providers
California's seven largest HMOs must pay nearly $5 million in fines because of unfair payment practices after an 18-month state investigation revealed widespread underpayments, valued in the tens of millions of dollars, for medical care provided by doctors and hospitals.
The Sacramento Bee
Nurses union becomes potent political force
Politicians and political strategists looking ahead to the next election cycle are taking notice of an increasingly potent political force on the state and national scene - one that's overwhelmingly female and dressed in scrubs. The Oakland-based California Nurses Association has made its mark by delivering some powerful political punches with a combination of entertaining theater and savvy strategizing.
San Francisco Chronicle
Nurses’ union responds to violent cases against staff
Devoting concern to possible violence against nurses is not a new cause for the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, but the union has not specifically devoted attention to it since the summer. To remedy this, PASNAP hosted a recent conference to address violence against health care professionals in the workplace, specifically against nurses.
Temple News
Nation's Largest RN Union Criticizes President's Pay Freeze For Veterans Affairs Nurses
The nation's largest union and professional association of registered nurses today condemned the decision by President Obama mandating a two-year wage freeze for Veterans Affairs nurses along with other federal employees.
Press Release
Nov 29, 2010
More Florida RNs Vote to Join NNOC-Florida/National Nurses United
Registered nurses at Community Hospital in New Port Richey, Fla. Tuesday night became the latest Florida nurses to cast their votes for affiliation with National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida.
Press Release
Nov 24, 2010
Central Florida RNs Vote by 68% to Join NNU, Second Orlando Area Hospital in a Week
Registered nurses at Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford , Fla. voted by 68 percent Monday night to join National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida, an affiliate of National Nurses United, the country's biggest union and professional association of registered nurses.
Press Release
Nov 23, 2010
Growing National Nurses United union steps up strikes in aggressive new strategy
The nurses at the Washington Hospital Center were all set to wear red scrubs - the union color - on Monday in preparation for a strike the day before Thanksgiving. But those scrubs can be put away, at least for now, because the union canceled the one-day strike, and management put controversial pay cuts on hold, as both sides are to resume talks after the holiday
Washington Post