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Labor News
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Houston, TX (June 03, 2010) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a formal complaint against the California Nurses Association (CNA) union and Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) for illegally negotiating contractual provisions before the union received majority support from Tenet employees. The complaint was prompted by unfair labor practice charges filed by several nurses at the Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center with the help of National Right to Work Foundation attorneys.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Dozens of nurses protested and chanted "corporate greed has got to go" outside a West Covina hospital Wednesday in hopes the hospital would meet a list of demands before a strike planned for next week.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Operating under the benign sounding title, “Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010”, [Senator Robert] Casey’s [D-PA] bill is actually nothing more than a transfer of approximately $165 billion in Big Labor’s pension debt over to the U.S. taxpayer.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Caregivers at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital have voted to leave Service Employees International Union and join the rival National Union of Healthcare Workers.
Results, announced Monday after three weeks of voting by mail, shows 408 votes for the health care union, 242 votes for SEIU, and 13 votes for no union. The local union represents more than 830 workers, including respiratory care practitioners, licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, clerical workers and others.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Princeton, WV (May 18, 2010) – Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 1199 union officials have agreed to a statewide settlement after six ResCare group home employees filed several unfair labor practice charges against them.
The employees, with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, challenged the SEIU District 1199 union’s forced dues policy, which violated Foundation-won employee rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark decision in Communication Workers of America v. Beck (1988).
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Union will spend $250 million on organizing this year, she says
Mary Kay Henry, the new Service Employees union (SEIU) president, hopes to oversee a large increase in her union’s organizing of workers in both the private and public sector, potentially adding more than one million new members to the 1.9-member union in the next four to five years.
At the same time, she wants SEIU to expand its support for community-based organizations—and the progressive movement more generally—to strengthen the labor movement’s political clout.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Two major nurses advocacy groups have split over whether, and how, Congress should mandate how many nurses work at each hospital.
National Nurses United, the largest registered nurses' union in the country, is pushing for legislation that would mandate the same nurse-to-patient ratio in every hospital around the country.
The American Nurses Association, a professional organization that represents registered nurses, opposes a set ratio and prefers a move to require hospitals seek input from nurses about staffing ratios in various units.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The AFL-CIO, a coalition of labor unions that represents 11.5 million workers, spent $640,000 in the first quarter as it lobbied the White House, Congress, and many federal agencies on issues including health care reform and jobs issues.
Monday, May 17, 2010
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Northern Berkshire Healthcare is once more involved in a labor dispute, this time with the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
North Adams Regional Hospital says it's filed an unfair labor practice charge against the Massachusetts Nurses Association, which represents the hospital's registered nurses. In the charge, filed with the National Labor Relations Board, hospital officials claim the union has "unlawfully retaliated" against it because negotiators wouldn't pull certain bargaining proposals off the table.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Today SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and SEIU's Immigration Campaign Director, Javier Morillo joined SEIU members and National People's Action (NPA) members at a rally outside of the DC Headquarters of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in America. Janitors, home care workers, public employees and community allies called on CCA to stop profiting off our broken immigration system.
Monday, May 17, 2010
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