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From the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation: The Winter Carnival is almost here … Come march with us in the King Boreas Grande Day Parade!

We will be gathering at the Labor and Professional Centre in the Main Labor Hall at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday January 28, 2012. We will leave together to line up for the parade which begins at 2:00 p.m.

Our marching unit is co-sponsored by the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation’s AFL-CIO Community Services program and Greater Twin Cities United Way.

If you would like to participate, please call Kelsey Eide at (651) 222-3787 ext.
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Media Contact: Charles Idelson, 510-273-2246 or Carl Ginsburg, 917-405-1060. For Profs. Pollin or Heintz, contact Debbie Zeidenberg, at PERI, dzeiden@peri.umass.edu or 413.577.3147

From National Nurses United:

A robust tax on Wall Street transactions would raise far more revenue – as much as 17 times as much – than more limited proposals, even accounting for the worst case scenarios of reduced trading as a result of a tax.  That’s the findings of an important new research brief from prominent University of Massachusetts Amherst economists Robert Pollin and James Heintz.

This study is the most recent serious effort to quantify current, actual costs and evaluate the impact of the trading costs on trading volume.
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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.

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MNA President Linda Hamilton was honored this week, winning the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation’s 2011 Labor Leader Award. The award is “in appreciation of tireless efforts and experienced leadership that has greatly benefitted the Saint Paul Regional Labor Federation.” It is the first year the award has been given out.

“Everyone in this room knows the success the nurses have had in raising the public’s awareness of the need to address unsafe staffing levels in our hospitals,” said SPRLF President Bobby Kasper. “The MNA made safe staffing a focus of their contract campaign two years ago, and they continue to fight for their members at the Capitol, where everybody knows the MNA means business! 
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