CNA

  • 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.

    Author(s):
    Mark Brenner

    Excerpt:
    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?. . . .

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  • Quiet Deal Leads to Bitter Fight in Ohio Hospitals

    Author(s):
    Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    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. . . .

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

    Author(s):
    Eileen Prendiville, Mischa Gaus

    Excerpt:
    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. . .

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