We love this thoughtful, passionate and well-reasoned viewpoint from well-known America’s Most Wanted Host John Walsh on Main Street versus Wall Street:
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Imagine how drastically your nursing practice would change for the worse if your patients’ caregivers or family members were allowed to give them medications in the hospital? That is just one of many recent changes proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid as conditions of participation.
The nurses were outstanding and spent two hours in each of the first two sessions and just over an hour in the third telling management that there are systems issues that need fixing, that they are needing to do more and more as other departments get cut, that they are no longer able to say they are proud of the care they are able to give, etc.
The American Crystal Sugar workers have been locked out since August. In solidarity, the MNA Board of Directors is encouraging all members to boycott American Crystal Sugar products until a settlement is reached.
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MNA President Linda Hamilton was honored this week, winning the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation’s 2011 Labor Leader Award.
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MNA RN Nellie Munn Advocates for Unemployment Insurance Extension.
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Media Contact: John Nemo, 651-414-2863 or john.nemo@mnnurses.org
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VP Engeldorf talks of the horribile health consequences of economic injustice
At home, Nurses are ROCKING OccupyMN.
VRMC RNs voted overwhelmingly today to support the City of Virginia’s proposed charter change that would alter the terms of what is considered a sale of the city-owned hospital.
National Nurses United’s Midwest Director and RN Jan Rodolfo appeared on Keith Olbermann’s show last night to talk about the Occupy Chicago arrests.
Learn more about the Main Street Contract and the effort to Tax Wall Street that is being led by National Nurses United.
In case you missed it LIVE last week online, here’s video of hundreds of MNA RNs on the streets of downtown St.
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