9 days ago by ausman

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – With ongoing cuts to healthcare, education, and other basic services, and greater national income disparity than during the Depression, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today announced its support for the…

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20 days ago by News

By Darrell Smith, The Sacramento Bee Thousands of Kaiser Permanente hospital workers and nurses will walk off the job Jan. 31, making good on threats to strike over stalled bargaining talks with the health network. Officials representing some 4,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers ...

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51 days ago by News

Associated Press, The Washington Post Nurses in California went on strike Thursday — some for the second time in three months — in the latest dispute between nurses and hospital management over health care costs, staffing levels and sick leave. The California Nurses Association — the union behind th ...

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59 days ago by News

By Nina Bernstein/The New York Times The specter of nursing strikes is looming on both coasts, as newly empowered nurses’ unions confront hospitals pressed to cut costs amid changes in health care financing. In New York, more than 6,000 registered nurses are poised to walk out of three of the city’s ...

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59 days ago by Chris Prevatt

Long Beach Memorial Nurses to Strike Dec. 22 Registered nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children’s Hospital will hold a one-day strike Thursday, Dec. 22 to protest the hospital’s ongoing hard-line stance in contract talks on critical patient care issues and demands for substa ...

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93 days ago by reed

McClatchy Newspapers Friday, Nov. 04, 2011 — SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The wave of anger at banks that has swept the country with the recent “Occupy” movement is coming to California college campuses next week. A union-backed group calling itself “Refund California” is organizing protests on Wednesday at ...

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127 days ago by ausman

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United today praised the decision by California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign an important workplace safety bill to protect registered nurses and other healthcare employees from disabling injuries and…

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139 days ago by jm

By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Nurses are taking to the picket lines, again. On Sept 22, an estimated 23,000 nurses in California struck at Kaiser Permanente facilities and also at Sutter Health hospitals and Children’s Hospital Oakland. The one-day strike was organized by the California Nurs ...

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142 days ago by Michelle Konstantinovsky

An estimated 21,000 healthcare workers joined picket lines, attended rallies or simply stayed home from work in protest of proposed employee benefit cuts at 40 hospitals across California.

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143 days ago by admin

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Some 2,500 nurses and other medical workers walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente facilities in southern California on Wednesday in a three-day planned strike protesting benefit cuts sought by the nonprofit healthcare giant. The striking employees are represented by the Nat ...

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