Union nurses at Northern Light AR Gould Hospital delivered a May Day basket today to AR Gould CEO Greg LaFrancois to demand movement at the bargaining table on issues involving safe staffing and staff retention in order to deliver patients the care our community deserves.
Maine State Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
California Nurses Association is calling on California lawmakers to continue to reject any moves to facilitate Home All Alone programs, which permit hospitals to treat patients at home for conditions that require hospitalization for acute inpatient-level care.
Nurses at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, Kan., will hold an informational picket on Monday, May 1, 2023, to urge management to agree to their bargaining table proposals regarding staffing and workplace violence prevention.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Nurses at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif. and John Muir Behavioral Health Center in Concord, Calif. will hold two separate strikes to protest their respective managements’ refusal to address demands for fair contracts.
California Nurses Association/National Nurses United
Nurses will be handing out informational flyers to call attention to the hypocrisy of Ascension: fundraising in the name of women’s and reproductive health services when Ascension has closed five such units nationwide over the last year.
National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United
Nurses opposed the proposed acquisition and are glad to see the FTC pursuing a review of potential federal antitrust law violations, as the proposed deal’s impacts on health care costs and access in New Orleans would be disastrous.
The bill would mandate that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration create a federal standard requiring health care and social service employers to develop and implement comprehensive workplace violence prevention plans.
Dozens of registered nurses employed by HCA Healthcare will travel from around the country to greet attendees of the 2023 Frist Gala in Nashville, Tenn. They will call attention to the Frist family’s troubling stewardship of HCA, which operates nearly 200 hospitals in 20 states.
The Ohio senator is the sponsor of federal legislation seeking nationally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, a necessary remedy to unsafe staffing in hospitals.
