Wall Street Should Pay for Wrecking the Economy
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The greed of large banks and Wall Street firms has wrecked our economy, wiping out pensions and portfolios, throwing us into a recession, costing us millions of jobs and squandering American productivity.
Yet nobody on Wall Street has paid the price for this wrongdoing. The National Nurses United (NNU) is calling for a financial transaction tax of 0.5 percent on Wall Street trading.
Nurses Launch ‘ProtestInTheUSA’ News Line to Encourage Protests
Inspired by the popular protests in Egypt, around the world and in states like Wisconsin, National Nurses United (NNU) today launched a news line designed to help coordinate and encourage grassroots protests in the United States.
The news line will live at www.Twitter.com/ProtestInTheUSA and bring together notices, reports and videos from protests concerning democracy, health care, workers’ rights and human rights, among other issues. All individuals and groups in favor of basic democratic values are invited to join and share protests.
NNU Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro says:
With so many families and working people in America in trouble, with the recession, health care crisis, staggering disparity in income, and the ongoing corporate chokehold of our economic and political structure, more and more people will be taking to the streets calling for real change. If you’re not protesting, you’re not paying attention. It’s up to all of us to help spread the fire.
Kaiser Nurses Gain Improvements in Patient Care
Thousands of registered nurses and nurse practitioners in Northern and Central California, members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU), voted nearly unanimously to approve a new three-year contract with Kaiser Permanente that gives them more freedom and authority to better care for their patients.
The contract covers 17,000 RNs and nurse practitioners in 21 hospitals and 40 medical office buildings, and is the largest single contract for RNs in the country. It provides for regional committees, selected by CNA, to determine additional staffing based on patient need. The deal also guarantees fixed schedules to protect arbitrary changes in nurse scheduling.
Under the contract, nurses will receive additional pay if they are assigned (floated) to a different department and new protocols are being established for more rapid management responses to staffing disputes
Nurses Unions Merge to Gain Greater Voice in Health Care
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Delegates to the founding convention of the National Nurses United (NNU) yesterday created the largest union and professional organization of registered nurses in U.S. history and immediately pledged to work to expand union representation of nurses and give them a greater voice in health care reform.
The NNU unites three nurses unions: the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), United American Nurses (UAN) and Massachusetts Nurses Association.
Karen Higgins, an RN from Massachusetts, and one of three newly elected co-presidents of the NNU, said:
The promise of the future has arrived with all the unlimited potential, creativity, vision, and power represented by the delegates in the room, and the 150,000 members of the founding organizations.
