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MNA Daily NewsScan: May 11, 2012 – Nursing Shortage: Fact or Fiction?

11 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Help “Stamp Out” Hunger: National Association of Letter Carriers Union’s 20th annual campaign makes it easy to donate nonperishable food items to those in need.
  • Crow Wing County Employees File Suit: Workers – including nurses - are suing the county, charging an unfair labor practice charge related to pay increases.

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 9, 2012 – Rahm Against The Machine, Leave Lori Alone and NYT Reporters Speak Out

9 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

  • Rahm Emanuel vs. Lori Swanson, Round 1: Unexpected challenge from Chicago’s Mayor to Minnesota’s Attorney General takes center stage in the ongoing Accretive Health investigation, and MNA weighs in via Minnesota Public Radio.
  • Every Last Penny: Hospitals are suing patients for nominal amounts – even if they are likely to qualify for charity care.

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Rahm Against The Machine? National Nurses United is calling an emergency press conference today at Noon to address the last-minute decision by Chicago’s mayor to undo months of planning and preparation regarding a planned rally in the city on May 18th. The event – part of NNU’s upcoming Staff Nurse Assembly in Chicago – is to feature NNU and MNA RNs, along with former Rage Against The Machine Guitarist (and Union activist) Tom Morello, along with other organizations and protestors gathering in support of the Main Street Contract.
  • New York Times Journalists Speak Out: Reporters, Writers demand resolution as contract negotiations drag on. (Video below)

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 7, 2012 – Happy National Nurses Week, Video Explanation of NNU-championed Financial Transaction Tax

7 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Notes on Nursing

  • Happy National Nurses Day! U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is among those voicing their thanks for the work nurses do each and every day.

Labor Updates

  • Video: Featuring an interview with National Nurses United Executive Director  Rose Ann DeMoro, Real News Network details the growing movement for a Financial Transaction Tax, which has been championed from the beginning by NNU. Watch below:

RNs Reach Labor Agreement in 10 Florida Hospitals    After drawn-out negotiations, registered nurses have reached a first-ever collective bargaining agreement with 10 Florida hospitals that are part of Hospital Corporation of America, including Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, Blake Medical Center in Bradenton and Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte.

MNA Daily NewsScan: May 4, 2012 – Albert Lea RNs Spotlighted, CEOs called out, Tips on RN-Doc Relationships

4 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

  • Op/Ed: CEOs, it’s time to take ownership of the problems at your hospitals.

Notes on Nursing

Labor Updates

  • Albert Lea RNs Talk About Walks: The Albert Lea Tribune published MNA Nurse Kathleen Lehman’s detailed Letter to the Editor explaining why Albert Lea RNs have been taking to the streets in recent weeks as they fight for a fair contract.
  • California Nurses Make Noise: Thousands of California Nurses took to the streets this week as part of a one-day strike for patient safety and the nursing profession. Take a look at some of the highlights below:

MNA Daily NewsScan May 1, 2012 CA Nurses on Strike; $18 for baby aspirin; more fallout from Fairview debt collection debacle

1 May

What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan is a round up the day’s biggest nursing, health care and organized labor stories.  As news unfolds in real-time, we update the NewsScan with new links and info, so check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

$18 For A Baby Aspirin? Hospitals Hike Costs For Everyday Drugs For Some Patients    Sudden chest pains landed Diane Zachor in a Duluth, Minn., hospital overnight, but weeks later she had another shock – a $442 bill for the same everyday drugs she also takes at home, including more than a half dozen common medicines to control diabetes, heart problems and high cholesterol.

In Fight Over Obama Health Care Law, a Front in Minnesota  In setting up a marketplace where people can shop for insurance, the state has sought advice from consumer groups, labor unions, doctors and hospitals, employers, insurance companies, agents and brokers, and American Indian tribes.

OpEd:  Health Care Providers Have Lost Their Way  Putting your life in someone’s hands is grossly different than buying a hamburger. The April 28 column by D.J. Tice (“Pay up front? Be still my beating heart“) — in which he equated “everyday shakedowns for payment in advance” with payment upon admission to hospitals, presumably Fairview (“AG: Fairview put squeeze on patients,” April 25) — missed the mark.  Note to Nurses:  You can comment on any of these stories – please make your important perspective known. 

Tax Man Cometh for Hospitals That Flout Charity-Care Mission    But when hospitals send bill collectors to patient bedsides, file suits against the sick, all while erecting sparkling new buildings as they raise prices for their care, observers wonder whether the money is coming before the mission.

Labor Updates

Sutter Nurses On Strike.  Give them your support.    Northern California RNs will strike eight Sutter corporation hospitals Tuesday, May 1 to once again protest the wealthy corporation’s outrageous demands for more than 100 reductions in patient care protections and RN standards.  Watch RNs speak up about going on strike.

GREAT video of Albert Lea RNs speaking up and walking in solidarity.

MNA Daily NewsScan: Dayton signs HHS Bill, California RNs prep for huge strike, Bill collectors in the ER?!

30 Apr

What is this?
The MNA Daily NewsScan is our attempt to round up the day’s biggest nursing, healthcare and organized labor stories in one place! As news unfolds in real-time, we’ll update the NewsScan with new links and info, so be sure to check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Labor Notes

Politics

  • HHS Bill Signed: With MNA President Linda Hamilton standing at his side, Gov. Mark Dayton signs 2012 HHS bill.

MNA Daily NewsScan: Crystal Sugar Deal; Albert Lea Nurses Get the Red Out; Insurance Rebates

26 Apr

What is this?
The MNA Daily NewsScan is our attempt to round up the day’s biggest nursing, healthcare and organized labor stories in one place! As news unfolds in real-time, we’ll update the NewsScan with new links and info, so be sure to check back often!

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Labor Notes

  • Albert Lea RNs “Walk and Talk”: Albert Lea’s MNA RNs took to the streets yesterday to talk about negotiating a fair contract that keeps community nurses in the community.
  • Re-Opening:  Michigan nurses ready to help shuttered hospital to unlock the doors again
  • Pulling Together:  Communication Workers of America  unite in solidarity as AT & T talks heat up
  • Bitter, but Better:  Crystal Sugar in contract deal with Montana workers.  ND, MN, IA still in standoff.

Never Forget: Workers’ Memorial Day April 28 Events Schedule

24 Apr

Workers Memorial Day
Every year on April 28, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew our efforts for safe workplaces.  This year we the struggle continues to create good jobs in this country that are safe and healthy and to ensure the freedom of workers to form unions and, through their unions, to speak out and bargain for respect and a better future.  It’s time for our country to fulfill the promise of safe jobs for all.

Attend an event near you:

Superior, WI – April 25, 7:30 AM

Free breakfast at 7:30 AM

Peter Ridge Community Center, 1201 N. 8th St.

Tree planting ceremony following breakfast at 9 AM

Kelly Park, 711 Grand Ave.

 

Mankato – April 26, Noon-1:30 PM

DOT Headquarters, 2151 Bassett Dr.

For more info see Facebook page.

 

Golden Valley – April 27, 9 AM

Golden Valley Truck Station, 2055 Lilac Dr. N. (just west of Hwy. 100 and north of Duluth St.) Map

Annual Workers Memorial Day commemoration

Co-sponsored by AFSCME and the Metro District of MnDOT

 

St. Paul – April 27, 11:30 AM

Workers Memorial Garden on the State Capitol Grounds

Co-sponsored by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Building Trades Council

 

Grand Forks, ND – April 27, 5 PM

Bringewatt Park, 2205 – 24th Ave. So.

Service followed by hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and pop

 

Fargo,ND – April 27, 5:30-7:30 PM

3002 First Ave. N.

Featuring Gary Granzotto, President, North Dakota AFL-CIO

All union and non-union workers, citizens and friends of the area are invited to join the Northern Plains United Labor Council at the Workers Memorial Day event. Dinner will be provided. Please bring your family, co-workers, neighbors, and friends to remember those workers who lost their life on the job and the efforts that we must continue to ensure safe worker conditions for ALL workers.  If you have any questions, please call 701-388-4654 or check their Facebook page.

 

Duluth – April 30, 7 AM

Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Rd.

Free breakfast sponsored by the United Way of Greater Duluth, Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body and the Northeast Area Labor Council.

 

Rochester – April 30, 8:30-9am reception, 9-10am Program

Rochester Truck Station (2900 48th St NW Rochester, MN)

Join our Rochester Area Union Brothers and Sisters on Monday April 30th to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew our efforts for safe workplaces

See the Facebook Page.

 

Apple Valley – April 30, 6 PM

Lebanon Cemetary (at the intersection of Co. Rd. 42 and Pilot Knob Rd.)

Co-sponsored by the Southern Dakota Co. Labor Assembly and the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation.  For more information contact Peter Polga-Hecimovich at 651-222-3787

Labor History on Display!

11 Apr

In celebration of labor history month, the Untold Stories series presents programs and talks on both local and national labor history topics.

Untold Stories is coordinated by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and all events are free and open to the public.

For a complete listing of Untold Stories events please click here.

Upcoming Untold Stories events include:

David Bacon: Illegal People
Thursday, April 12, 7 pm
Macalester College, Weyerhaeuser Chapel, 1600 Grand Avenue

Writer and photojournalist David Bacon returns to the Untold Stories series with a talk on his new book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Bacon is also the author of Children of NAFTA and the photo-documentary project Communities Without Borders.

Ricardo Dominguez
Tuesday, April 17, 5 pm
University of Minnesota, Regis Center for Art (East), Influx Room, 405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis

The 18th annual David Noble Lecture, presented by the American Studies Department, features Professor Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT). He is co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists, and an Associate Professor at University of California San Diego in the Visual Arts Department.

Woody Guthrie at 100
Thursday, April 19, 7 pm
St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Main Street

Celebrate the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth with a program featuring folk singer Darryl Holter, a former labor education director for the Wisconsin AFL-CIO and labor educator at UCLA, who has developed a “Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles” presentation/performance, and renowned Twin Cities labor troubadour Larry Long, who has applied and extended Woody Guthrie’s aesthetics and energies for the past four decades.

Please Support our Union brothers and sisters in St. Paul on Feb. 16th!

14 Feb

UNITE HERE Local 17 has been in contract negotiations with The Saint Paul Hotel since November 2011. The Hotel has hired a Union busting attorney, John Hauge, and is proposing to take away daily overtime, have workers contribute to their Health Insurance, and impose a 2 tiered wage system, reducing wages by as much as $5.00 per hour, undercutting ALL other Hotel contracts in the Twin Cities Area and lowering the standards of the Hospitality Industry. This is the same Hotel that once wanted to “pay the highest wages and attract the best workers”. The Saint Paul Hotel is a 4 Diamond property and was recently named as the best Hotel in Minnesota. We think they should be able to meet or exceed what all the other Employers agreed to.

Please call or email the management and tell them to “stop disrespecting the workers and hurting the community by turning living wage jobs into low wage jobs”.

David Miller@ 651-228-3801 dmiller@saintpaulhotel.com
Bill Morrissey @651-332-7665 bmorrissey@morrisseyhospitality.com

Event: PLEASE JOIN THE MEMBERS OF UNITE HERE LOCAL 17 IN FRONT OF THE SAINT PAUL HOTEL at NOON on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16th.

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