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Hospitals Gain Bigger Foe in Nurses Union
15 hours ago ago from Randy's Right
Hospitals across the country have a new, more formidable opponent after the merging of three unions to form National Nurses United . One thing we've learned from the example of the Service Employees International Union is that despite the demise of manufacturing in this country, labor is not dead yet. SEIU grew quickly and became a political force this decade by signing up janitors, security guards and other people in a host of ...
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20 hours ago ago from Off the Charts
By Peggy McDaniel, BSN, RN Yesterday a new and powerful union was formed. The National Nurses United brings over 150,000 nurses together by combining the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee with the Massachusetts Nursing Association and some members of the United American Nurses. The new intends to focus both on influencing health care reform and on improving quality of care through such efforts ...
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12 hours ago ago from Talking Union
Open Letter to Workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital: Why Do SJHS and SEIU Fear a Free and Fair Election? by Fred Ross, Jr.‚ Dec. 08‚ 2009 I met some of you for the first time in December 2004 at a rally with United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta , when she joined your call for St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) to negotiate ground rules for a free and fair election process. For the next four years, as an SEIU international ...
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21 hours ago ago from Newsalert
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Nurses from three unions, including the powerful California Nurses Association, have founded a new national union to influence national health care policies and try to extend California's patient ratio law into other states. Organizers said the 150,000-member National Nurses United, the largest professional union for registered nurses in the country, will also flex its power to push for a stronger voice ...
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18 hours ago ago from 1dragon's Blog
Dec. 8, 2009 The American Spectator During the first year of the Obama administration, conservatives have directed much of their fire on the major legislation the president is pushing through Congress. This concern is justifiable, as Democrats are moving bills aimed at taking over the nation's health care system, creating a national energy tax to limit carbon emissions, and enabling unions to rapidly add members by denying workers a ...
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Stalled Chicago skyscraper project may start again
13 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Stalled Chicago skyscraper project may start again CHICAGO (AP) -- Construction of what would be North America's tallest building may move forward thanks to unions that not only want their workers to build it but are trying to put together a deal to help pay for it. A group of union pension funds - eager to provide work for union workers - are in talks to loan $170 million to Irish developer Shelbourne Development Group so construction of ...
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20 hours ago ago from Good News Now
It’s a story that comes with its own truism: “nothing succeeds like success.” States with higher gross state product growth are more likely to attract highly mobile and high-achieving college graduates, both self-employed and wage-and-salary workers, according to Office of Advocacy research based on the U.S. Department of Education’s 2003 Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) data base. “With states devoting millions of dollars in investments to ...
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