CNA

  • 'Toxic' Health Bill or No, Labor's 'Medicare for All' Activists Dig In

    When I told friends I was on my way to the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer conference, held last weekend, they all said, “I bet that’ll be a bunch of long faces.” I predicted not—these were people who’d always known the health care reform debate in Congress would come up short. Yet the 124 delegates to the March 5-7 conference in Washington were upbeat.

  • Who Are the Partners in Kaiser Partnership?

    Book Review: Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente, by Tom Kochan, Robert McKersie, Adrienne Eaton, and Paul Adler (Cornell ILR Press, 2009)

    Most labor relations academics are unabashedly anti-union, reflecting the influence of business and the decline of organized labor. The authors of Healing Together are pro-union in the sense that they still see a place for unions in the modern economy, even if that place is to assist management.

  • Nurses from 10 States Embrace National Union

    Registered nurses from across the U.S. gathered this week for the founding convention of the National Nurses United, destined to be the largest RN union in the country's history. After months of a contentious, litigation-filled atmosphere, the new union's creation was met with a outpouring of joy by delegates.

  • Nurses Move Toward a 'Superunion'
    Mischa Gaus
    Dec 4 2009 - 12:29pm

    A national “superunion” of 150,000 bedside nurses kicked off its founding convention Monday. Fights inside two of the three unions coming together make it clear: How unions make major decisions matters as much as the end product.

  • Hospital Closings Test Unions’ Ability to Defend Poor Communities
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 27 2009 - 9:14pm
  • Labor Rallies for Health Care Reform, but Keeps it Vague
    Jane Slaughter
    Jul 15 2009 - 1:56pm

    It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform. Resolutions favoring “Medicare for All,” a single-payer system, have been passed by 558 unions, central labor councils, state federations, and other union organizations. Yet in practice leaders of many of those same unions have acted as if actual single-payer legislation (Representative John Conyer’s HR 676 and Senator Bernie Sanders’ S703) didn’t exist.

  • Quiet on the Western Front? Behind the SEIU-CNA Alliance.

    Mark Brenner

    When the Service Employees and California Nurses Association called a truce in March, many union observers were confused—but breathed a sigh of relief. What does the SEIU-CNA deal mean for health care unions in California and beyond?. . . .


    Yes
  • Quiet Deal Leads to Bitter Fight in Ohio Hospitals

    Mischa Gaus

    Accusations of sweetheart deal-making and union busting flew thick and fast in mid-March as the Service Employees and the California Nurses Association fought over SEIU’s bid to quietly gain wall-to-wall representation at nine Ohio hospitals. . . .


    Yes
  • Staffing Ratios, Retiree Benefits Sticking Issues as California Nurses Strike Sutter Health

    Eileen Prendiville, Mischa Gaus

    Leading a strike that one hospital administrator said cost her $1 million a day, 5,000 registered nurses at 10 Northern California hospitals in the Sutter Health chain walked off their jobs for two days in mid-October. Five facilities locked out striking nurses for an additional one to three days when the strike, the largest among nurses in a decade, was over. Represented by the California Nurses Association. . .


    Yes