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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 20, 2012 – “Baby Prisons”, Robin Hood Recap and Your Health

On: June 20, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

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:

Health Care

“Baby Prisons”: Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson’s offices shares disturbing new details regarding the ongoing investigation of Accretive Health and its debt collectors allegedly harassing patients and family members inside Twin Cities hospitals.
Americans’ Health a “Mixed Bag”:New CDC Report notes we’re smoking less, but not exercising enough and still following unhealthy diets, leading to obesity.

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 18, 2012 – Robin Hood Tax and State of the (Labor) Unions

On: June 18, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

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.

MNA RNs to join national effort Tuesday, will call for Robin Hood Tax

On: June 18, 2012

In: Activism, Labor Unions, Nurses

Dozens of national organizations including National Nurses United and Health GAP, celebrities including Mark Ruffalo, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, leading economists including Jeffrey Sachs, former JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs executives and global leaders such as Desmond Tutu have joined together for an unprecedented coalition, calling for a “Robin Hood Tax” on Wall Street.

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 15, 2012 – Unsafe Staffing – Firefighter Edition

On: June 15, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

Stories we’re scanning:

Labor

Unnecessary Risk: Minneapolis firefighters tell state legislators about the risks to personal and public safety due to staffing and budget cuts.
Sutter Nurses Strike Recap: View photos from the one-day strike in California and find out more about the situation.

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 13, 2012 – Sutter RNs Begin Strike, Robin Hood Ready?

On: June 13, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

Stories we’re scanning:

Labor

Sutter RNs Begin Strike: Despite amassing more than $4 Billion in profits since 2005, California-based Sutter Health is trying to impose massive cuts that would negatively impact both patients and nurses. Follow National Nurses United on Twitter for the latest updates on today’s strike by Sutter RNs.
Victory! Thanks to the help of the Occupy Homes MN movement and many others, MNA RN Colleen Espinosa’s long battle to save her home from foreclosure by Citibank was successful.

Sign up now for MNA’s Special “Robin Hood Tax” June 19 Event!

On: June 12, 2012

In: Activism, Labor Unions, Politics

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 11, 2012 – Nurses Are (Financial) Key, Pensions Under Assault

On: June 11, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

Stories we’re scanning:

Nursing

Listen Up, CEOs: Story cites Nurses as key to making or breaking future margins.

Labor

Pensions Under Assault: Public employees in California seeing retirement benefits rolled back – even for current employees.
Op/Ed: Labor Unions aren’t the problem with U.S. Postal Service – Congress is.

MNA Daily NewsScan: June 8, 2012 – Mayo Moving In, St. Louis RNs say “Yes!” to NNU and more!

On: June 8, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

Mayo Moving In: The Star Tribune notes that Rochester, MN-based Mayo Clinic has reached a tentative agreement to purchase and take over Fairview’s Red Wing Health Services location.
Young, Uninsured and in Debt: The Commonwealth Fund Health Insurance Tracking Survey of Young Adults finds that between November 2010 and November 2011, an estimated 13.7 million young adults ages 19–25 stayed on or joined their parents’ health plans, including 6.6 million who likely would not have been able to do so prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

MNA Daily NewsScan, June 7, 2012: MA RNs defeat unlicensed personnel measure; Olympic gold may be tarnished

On: June 7, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

NOTES ON NURSING

Massachusetts Nurses Derail Proposed Law Allowing Unlicensed Personnel to Give Meds The amendment that would have allowed unlicensed personnel to administer medications was withdrawn from the payment reform bill

LABOR UPDATES

State Unions Reach Tentative Agreement Covering 21,000 Workers AFSCME and MAPE have reached a tentative deal on a two-year collective bargaining agreement with the State of Minnesota.

AFL-CIO – Olympic Medal Producer Tarnishes Spirit of the Games Summer Olympic Games medal supplier, Rio Tinto—a union-busting global mining conglomerate with a track record of worker and environmental abuse—should be kept off the podium in London, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
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MNA Daily NewsScan: June 6, 2012 – Grading Hospitals on Patient Safety, CA Nurses Set to Strike, Sugar Workers Head to HQ

On: June 6, 2012

In: Activism, Healthcare, Labor Unions, Nurses, Nursing, Politics

Stories we’re scanning:

Health Care

MHA Questions Validity of Patient Safety Data: The Star Tribune notes that a new attempt by a consumer group to give hospitals a letter grade when it comes to patient safety is being pooh-poohed by the Minnesota Hospital Association. Fear not, because we have a solution: Want to know the truth about patient safety at your hospital?