On AlterNet: nurses

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "nurses"

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.

"Serious as a Heart Attack": RoseAnn DeMoro Explains How to Raise $350 Billion from Financial Transaction Tax

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company. May 13, 2012.

Bill Moyers talks to RoseAnn DeMoro of National Nurses United about the union's march in Chicago for the Robin Hood Financial Transaction Tax.

Chicago's Cracking Down on Protests but Nurses Union Still Planning Huge Rally with Tom Morello

Aaron Krager, AlterNet. May 8, 2012.

G-8 leaders may seclude themselves at Camp David, but National Nurses United and groups will continue with their plans for a massive rally and protest on May 18 in Chicago.

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.

The Protests Will Go On In Chicago, As Obama Moves the G8 Summit to Camp David

Kari Lydersen, In These Times. March 9, 2012.

National Nurses United and other labor and community groups will continue with plans to protest economic injustice and call for a financial transaction tax.

Around the World, Medical Workers Join Protests on the Side of the 99%

Michelle Chen, In These Times. November 28, 2011.

Movements are discovering the connection between health and activism through medical workers joining the front lines to deploy their skills and their conviction.

Nurses Step Up the Call for a Global Financial Tax

Rose Ann DeMoro, AlterNet. November 11, 2011.

The call for a financial transaction tax (FTT), sometimes called a “Robin Hood tax,” has inspired a global movement.

'Tax Timmy's Friends': Nurses Follow Obama to France Demanding He Tax Geithner's Wall Street Cronies

Josh Eidelson, AlterNet. November 2, 2011.

The nurses' union takes the movement for a financial transaction tax to the G-20 in Cannes.

Occupy Chicago Activists Face Second Mass Arrest; Rahm Emanuel Sends Nurses to Jail With Protesters

Joe Macaré, In These Times. October 23, 2011.

130 protesters arrested as part of Occupy Chicago, some for the second time, said they were denied phone calls and sleep as Chicago police escalate the fight.

This Is Only Getting Bigger: 20,000 Rally in New York to Support Occupy Wall Street

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. October 5, 2011.

Despite another clash with police, the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain support as unions and community groups march in solidarity.

The Big One Is Coming: California Nurses Organize Largest Nurses' Strike in U.S. History

Carl Finamore, In These Times. September 20, 2011.

Pent up frustrations from more than 23,000 registered nurses at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals will explode to the surface in a one-day strike on September 22.

Exclusive Video Report: Nurses Speak Out In Favor of Wall Street Transaction Tax to Heal America

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. August 31, 2011.

Thousands of nurses and their allies are converging today on Congressional offices--in this exclusive video report, they explain why.

Obama NLRB Overturns Bush-era Decisions, Protects Union Rights, Allows Nursing Home Workers to Organize

Laura Clawson, Daily Kos. August 31, 2011.

The National Labor Relations Board under Obama continues to quietly make decisions that support workers over big business.

Nurses Union Calls for Nationwide Action September 1 to Rebuild Main Street

Donna Smith, The Smirking Chimp. August 24, 2011.

Enough kowtowing to Wall Street, say 170,000 members of National Nurses United. It's time for a financial transaction tax--and national protests in support.

If You Had A Stroke Tomorrow, Where Would You End Up? Why We Need Medicare For All.

Donna Smith, AlterNet. July 7, 2011.

So long as we start out by viewing patients as profits, all other issues will flow from that point.

Thousands of Visionary Nurses Confront Wall Street and Advocate for their Patients in Rollicking Wall Street Rally

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. June 22, 2011.

National Nurses United has a message for Wall Street: bankers need to pay up for the ailments they've caused.

Nurses Take on Wall Street

Rose Ann DeMoro, AlterNet. June 14, 2011.

Nurses have launched a campaign to reverse the disastrous course of policies that demand ever more hardship for Main Street.

Haiti Desperately Needs Nurses. Here's How You Can Help

John Nichols, TheNation.com. January 19, 2010.

Haiti's health-care infrastructure has crumbled. Many health-care providers were killed in the earthquake. Local doctors are themselves injured and in shock.

What's Wrong With the Healthcare Bill? Ask a Nurse.

John Nichols, TheNation.com. December 22, 2009.

"If this bill passes, the industry will become more powerful and could be beyond the reach of reform for generations."

New Ad: If Cheney Didn't Get Government Health Care, "He'd Probably Be Dead by Now"

Matt Corley, ThinkProgress. December 11, 2007.

Matt Corley: This factual and provocative ad isn't outrageous.

Striking Nurses in W. Va are Met With Intimidation, Harassment and Car Fires!

Richard Negri, Union Review. November 15, 2007.

A worker action turns ugly.