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New York Nurses Take Back Their Union, Push for Safe Staffing

Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. May 20, 2012.

The ability of NYSNA nurses to chart their own course, ensuring patient care and bedside nursing are priorities, is a reminder that unions can change based on member involvement.

Nurses Defy Chicago Mayor, Rallying for Robin Hood Tax

Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. May 20, 2012.

When Chicago’s “Mayor 1%” Rahm Emanuel threatened to derail the National Nurses United rally this Friday, NNU didn’t back down.

What We Still Get Wrong About Women and Work

Michelle Chen, In These Times. April 19, 2012.

The question we should be asking is not whether domestic caregiving is more or less important than wage work—they’re both crucial, and crucially different.

Rx for U.S. Health (and Healthcare): A Politics of Solidarity and Equality

David Moberg, In These Times. April 1, 2012.

The same free-market politics that opposes even the conservative compromise of the Affordable Care Act lies behind policy shifts that have greatly increased inequality.

Whatever the Supreme Court Decides on Healthcare, Nurses See the Real Crisis Continuing

Karen Higgins, AlterNet. March 28, 2012.

If Medicare is good enough for our grandparents, it should be good enough for the rest of us.

Paul Ryan's Healthcare Plan: Die Quickly

Leo Gerard, AlterNet. March 27, 2012.

The GOP demeans Americans by suggesting it would be more honorable for them to die without health insurance than receive it through their government.

The Disaster of the Century: How to Help Haiti

Don Hazen, AlterNet. January 14, 2010.

A guide to the best ways your aid can immediately help save lives, protect the survivors and rebuild Haiti.

Bush Dismantles Child Care

Ruth Rosen, TomPaine.com. October 5, 2006.

America's child care crunch is more dire than ever, thanks to Bush's gutting of government programs that assist working families.

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