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Twin Cities nurses look below for your voting schedule. We’ll see you next week!
December 13, 2012
Twin Cities nurses look below for your voting schedule. We’ll see you next week!
Think of yourself in your early 20s-young, energetic, maybe a little naïve in some ways. All it takes is a look into one’s old closet or record collection to realize that.
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LABOR UPDATES
Wages in Minnesota Rise for the Richest, Fall for the Poor It’s being called a “lost decade” for low- and middle-income Minnesotans.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 12, 2012: Rural RNs more likely to commute for better salaries »
LABOR UPDATES
Right To Work Passes Michigan House The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the Capitol.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 11, 2012: RTW passes MI House; U.S. lives longer, sicker »
The Minnesota Nurses Association is happy to welcome Rick Fuentes to represent its 20,000 members in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
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More than 150 nurses will vote Tuesday, December 11, on a new Tentative Agreement between the Minnesota Nurses Association and Douglas County Hospital.
… Read more about: New TA to be voted on by Alex Nurses »
LABOR NEWS
Nurses Join Fight Against Michigan Right To Work Legislation More than a dozen Michigan nurses stood on the steps of the Michigan Capitol this morning, their mouths covered in red duct tape in protest of right to work legislation.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 10, 2012: Nurses Protest RTW in MI »
NOTES ON NURSING
MNA Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement with Twin Cities Hospitals The Minnesota Nurses Association and Twin Cities Hospitals reached agreement last night on new three-year-contracts, which are being unanimously recommended by the MNA Negotiating Committee for ratification by the membership.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 7, 2012: TC Nurse Contract Tentative Agreement; Sham Democracy in Michigan »
Joint Press Release
Contact: Rick Fuentes: 651-414-2863/cell: 612-741-0662
Jan Rabbers: 651-414-2861/cell: 612-860-6658
Minnesota Nurses Association and North Memorial Health Care, Park Nicollet Health Services, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, Fairview Health Services, HealthEast Care System and Allina Health
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… Read more about: MNA Nurses Reach Tentative Agreement with Twin Cities Hospitals »
NOTES ON NURSING
Nurses Top Gallup Ethics and Honesty Poll for 12th Time in 13 Years. Nurses’ high rating this year is not unexpected; they have scored at the top of all professions every year since they were first included in the list in 1999 — apart from 2001, when Gallup asked about “firefighters” on a one-time basis after the Sept.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 5, 2012: RNs tops in ethics again; MN faces $1.1B deficit »
NOTES ON NURSING
CDC Says US Flu Season Starts Early; Could be Bad Flu season in the United States is off to its earliest start in nearly a decade — and it could be a bad one
HEALTH CARE
GOP Counteroffer Would Raise Medicare Age Republicans are proposing a “fiscal cliff” plan that revives ideas from failed budget talks with President Barack Obama last year, calling for raising the eligibility age for Medicare, lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits and bringing in $800 billion in higher tax revenue.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 4, 2012: Flu season could be severe »
LABOR NEWS
Can you Hear Us Now? Sugar Workers Reject Contract 4th Straight Time One of the longest work stoppages in recent Minnesota history will continue as locked-out union workers at American Crystal Sugar Saturday rejected essentially the same contract for the fourth time, with 55 percent voting against.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, December 3, 2012: FOUR! Sugar workers reject contract- again; 60 Minutes exposes HMA »