Job Opening at MNA!
2012-10-18
Sunday, September 30 Rally – Working Families Vote No!
2012-09-21
Join your fellow union members as we say –
WORKING FAMILIES VOTE NO!
We Are Minnesota, a coalition of local unions including MNA, is sponsoring a rally to demonstrate our opposition to BOTH constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot this fall.
WHEN & WHERE: Sunday, September 30 in St. Paul’s Rice Park
Gather at 12:30; program (about 45 minutes) at 1:00.
Emcee will be SAG-AFTRA and Equity member Sue Scott of Prairie Home Companion, and speakers will include labor leaders, rank-and-file members, and dignitaries. We’ll also have some great musical performers, including the Twin Cities Labor Chorus and AFofM member singer-guitarist Scott Dercks, who will lead us in a sing-along to end the program.
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Labor Day Activities, 2012
2012-08-30
Sunday, September 2
Virginia
Iron Range Labor Assembly picnic
12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Olcott Park, Virginia 55792
Program at 1:30 p.m. Join us for a raffle, games for kids, a beer garden and all the food you can eat. This picnic is open to anyone.
Monday, September 3 – Labor Day
Brainerd/Baxter
Brainerd Trades and Labor Assembly Solidarity Day 2012 Labor Day picnic
12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Baxter City Park, Baxter MN 56425
Join us for food, beverages, music, games for kids and door prizes.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 9, 2012: Retail health care; AA Pilots Reject Offer
2012-08-09
HEALTH CARE
Doctor is In; Retail is Out The glut of empty strip malls and big-box stores in the wake of the go-go years has made leases so affordable that nearly every major hospital system in the state and many private health care organizations have jumped in.
Indiana Hospital Blames Electronic Records for Longer Waits in ER Patients’ lengths of stay in Columbus Regional Hospital’s emergency department doubled in late June during a switch to an electronic records system, and times are still longer than usual despite improvements, hospital officials said.
LABOR
American Pilots Reject Contract Pilots for American Airlines have strongly rejected a contract offer that would have helped the company cut labor costs, dashing American’s hopes of winning voluntary concessions from all its labor unions.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, August 7, 2012: How is that corporate health care working for you?
2012-08-07
HEALTH CARE
Big Med Blog note: This long piece published in the New Yorker, is written by the same author who uncovered the discrepancies in health cre spending, most notably in McAllen, TX. It is a provocative article about corporatization of health care that will be a source of heated discussion. Weigh in yourself, using the comments section below.
Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work Blog note: another point about health care corporitization. And it was a nurse who blew the whistle.
In British Emergency Room, “There’s No Card to Show; There are No Bills” Take the American tourist.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, July 19, 2012: Bring jobs home, join the Tweet-a-thon; the July Effect;
2012-07-19
LABOR NEWS
Join the Tweet-A-Thon! Unions members throughout the nation are tweeting their legislators to pass a bill that will bring jobs home. Call 888-659-9401 now and urge your senators to vote for the Bring Jobs Home Act to get the ball rolling to stop the destructive policies of outsourcing. Learn more.
Thank a union Mining Wages Outpace Other Private Sector Jobs Mining jobs have become the best jobs in the region for most workers.
HEALTH CARE
Health Care Spending Slows in Minnesota Health care spending in Minnesota rose just 2.2 percent in 2010 — the slowest annual growth rate since 1997, the Minnesota Department of Health reported Wednesday.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, June 26, 2012: Twin Cities #1 in fitness; rural health care changing
2012-06-26
HEALTH CARE
Twin Cities Ranks #1 in Fitness High rates of physical activity helped to propel Minneapolis-St. Paul to the top of the list of the American College of Sports Medicine’s 2012 American Fitness Index (AFI) for the second year in a row, while raised obesity levels and smoking pushed Oklahoma City to the bottom.
Change is Coming to Rural Health Care, Whatever the Supreme Court Decides Even if the Supreme Court rules some part of the law unconstitutional, he said, “I don’t think it will derail the move forward toward change. It’s not prudent for health organizations to sit back and wait.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, June 25, 2012 – Nursing the wounded; HC to add 5.6M new jobs by 2020
2012-06-25
NURSING
Nursing the Wounded There’s a new effort being made to train more of the nation’s nurses to help care for this growing population of veterans. First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden recently launched an initiative to create specialized training in veterans health care so nurses nationwide can better care for this coming wave of new vets.
HEALTH CARE
Health Care to Create 5.6 Million New Jobs by 2020 The healthcare industry will spawn 5.6 million new jobs by 2020 – most of them high-paying – but most unemployed Americans won’t have the expensive schooling necessary to land them.
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MNA Daily NewsScan, June 19, 2012: Robin Hood Tax Day; underemployed & underpaid
2012-06-19
Stories we’re scanning:
NOTES ON NURSING
Nurses’ Rx for Healing – A Robin Hood Tax Nurses are on the streets throughout the world today to demand a small Robin Hood tax on Wall Street transactions. In Guatamala, Manhattan, El Paso, Minneapolis and numerous sites around the globe, thousands of nurses who see too much suffering as Wall Street bankers get paid six-figure bonuses are calling for a new public health measure – economic justice. Read why nurses are at the forefront of this movement.
California Court Says Unsupervised Nurses Can Administer Anesthesia The order will have its greatest impact in rural areas, where nurses commonly administer anesthesia in hospitals, under a doctor’s orders but without in-person supervision.
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