nurses

  • Nurses Press for Financial Transaction Tax

    Just as the cherry blossoms fell from their trees as summer began in Washington, D.C., the 170,000 registered nurses who are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union, launched their Main Street Contract campaign.

    Six months later, NNU’s campaign is resonating on an international stage and shifting what’s politically possible here at home.

  • Nurses Say Private Equity Firm Starving Massachusetts Hospitals
    Mark Brenner, Mischa Gaus
    Dec 20 2011 - 6:26pm

    Nurses sang sour carols today to the private equity firm they say is starving Massachusetts hospitals and pitting workers against each other. Steward hospitals, owned by Cerberus Capital, is squeezing hard.

  • New York Nurse Reformers One Step Closer to Power
    Mark Brenner
    Oct 19 2011 - 5:33pm

    Reformers inside the New York State Nurses Association are one step closer to taking power in the 37,000-member union after a federal judge ordered the outgoing leaders to seat the winners of an August election.

  • Nurses Protest in 60 Cities, Demanding Tax on Wall Street
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 2 2011 - 1:18pm

    Thousands of nurses descended on local Congressional offices Thursday, demanding Wall Street pay for the crisis it created. They want a Wall Street transactions tax, which the national nurse union says could generate $350 billion.

  • Reformers Sweep Election in New York Nurses Union
    Mark Brenner
    Sep 1 2011 - 11:03am

    In an election that could further alter the fast-changing landscape of nurse unions, reformers in the New York State Nurses Association gained a big majority on the organization’s board of directors.

  • Minnesota Nurses Strike for Patient Safety
    Mischa Gaus
    Jul 15 2011 - 1:00pm

    Nurses in Minnesota’s Iron Range wrapped a three-day strike Thursday, pushing administrators to staff up. They say management relies on overtime to staff the hospital, which leaves nurses exhausted and unsafe.

  • Michigan’s ‘No Soup for You’ Kitchen Shows Price of Budget Cuts

    A sunny day on Lansing’s Capitol lawn brought the Michigan Nurses Association out today to hold a soup kitchen serving people left in need by the state’s drastic budget cuts.

  • Nurses Join International Push for Bank Trade Tax
    Mischa Gaus
    Jun 22 2011 - 5:17pm

    Hundreds of nurses and their allies rallied on Wall Street Wednesday to remind the bankers they owe the nation, and the union movement is determined to collect. National Nurses United led the protest.

  • Don't Take Medicaid Cuts Out on Us, Say NY Nurses
    Jenny Brown
    May 12 2011 - 10:19am

    Noisy pickets by the NYSNA nurses union responded to $5 billion in Medicaid cuts by New York legislators, which hospitals are trying to pass on to nurses. In the Bronx, nurses say Montefiore hospital looks to save by understaffing.

  • Nurse Unions: Florence Nightingale Doesn't Work Here Anymore
    Mischa Gaus
    May 6 2011 - 2:43pm

    National Nurses United marked National Nurses Week this year with strike threats at six hospitals in five states, winning increased staffing levels in some locations and beating back health care cost hikes in others.