What is this? The MNA Daily NewsScan rounds 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:
Labor
- NPR Examines Labor, Middle Class: For many full-time employees in the United States, the five-day work week, paid overtime and holidays are expected benefits. This wasn’t always so, and many workers’ benefits today are the achievements of labor unions.
- MNA RNs Prepare for Robin Hood Tax Action: Tomorrow (June 19) is going to be a day to remember, as MNA RNs join celebrities, economists and activists nationwide in calling for the implementation of a Robin Hood Tax.
- RN-to-Patient Ratios Under Attack in CA: Please read this important and developing story out of California, then weigh in with your comments. Also read about how a labor leader from SEIU-UHW is working on concert with the California Hospital Association to try and undermine California RNs and the use of ratios for patient safety.