MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 28, 2012 - MN Gets $42.5M for health exchange (Page 94)

 

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The French government presented a budget Friday that was heavy on taxes — including a controversial 75 percent income rate on high earners.

Nurses at two San Jose hospitals took to the sidewalk this week in a one-hour strike over contract negotiations.

After working without a contract for more than a year, about 750 registered nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement with Mills-Peninsula Health Services.

HEALTH CARE

Minnesota has received $42.5 million in its third federal grant to help design and develop a health insurance exchange.

 

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LABOR

The French government presented a budget Friday that was heavy on taxes — including a controversial 75 percent income rate on high earners.

Nurses at two San Jose hospitals took to the sidewalk this week in a one-hour strike over contract negotiations.

After working without a contract for more than a year, about 750 registered nurses have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement with Mills-Peninsula Health Services.

HEALTH CARE

Minnesota has received $42.5 million in its third federal grant to help design and develop a health insurance exchange.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 28, 2012 – MN Gets $42.5M for health exchange  »

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Please join Wellstone Action on October 10, 2012, as they honor the lives and legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone, Marcia Wellstone Markuson, Tom Lapic, Mary McEvoy, and Will McLaughlin.

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In an appalling display of dangerous mismanagement, UMass Memorial Medical Center has announced yet another round of layoffs, the sixth in two years, despite posting a profit last year and aiming to post a $60 million surplus this year; all the while slashing staff and transforming UMMMC from the best staffed to the worst staffed hospital in the City of Worcester.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 27, 2012 – Hospital goes from “best staffed to worst staffed” in City  »

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In a serious case of irony, Union-busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took to Twitter early today demanding the return of the NFL’s unionized referees.

LABOR

From the AFL-CIO Blog: Crossing a picket line hurts everyone.

Also, today is National Voter Registration Day. Are you ready to have your voice heard?

HEALTH CARE

NNU’s Rose Ann DeMoro: The Robin Hood Campaign – A Movement, and Now Legislation, Too.

From Minnesota Public Radio: Rural Minnesota retools health care in wave of hospital mergers.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 25, 2012: Scott Walker Irony Alert in full effect  »

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Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Edward P. Ehlinger published an Op/Ed in today’s Star Tribune on why marriage is a matter of public health.

LABOR

Locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers have called on their children in an effort to get the company to negotiate an end to the labor dispute.

Minnesota Orchestra management and musicians are still worlds apart as they meet with a federal mediator on Monday, six days before the orchestra’s union contract expires.

National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses, has endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 24, 2012: Op/Ed – Marriage A Matter of Public Health  »

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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.
… Read more about: Sunday, September 30 Rally – Working Families Vote No!  »

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HEALTH CARE

Op/Ed: Leadership not listening to front-line staff can negatively affect patients, staff and hospitals.

Investigation: Hospital grab at least $1 billion in extra fees for ER visits.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 21, 2012: Hospitals grabbing at least $1 billion in extra fees  »

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Verizon Communications and two unions have reached tentative agreements for labor contracts covering about 43,000 workers after more than a year of negotiations and a strike.

HEALTH CARE

A federal judge dismissed Prime Healthcare Services’ lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente and a California workers’ union in what Prime called a conspiracy to whittle the hospital operator out of the market.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 20, 2012: Verizon, 43,000 Workers Reach Tentative Agreement  »

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Big News on the Robin Hood Tax front: Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison (pictured above) introduced a bill in Congress this week that would impose a tax on Wall Street speculation.  The Inclusive Prosperity Act  would raise up to $350 billion in annual revenues that would be used to breathe new life into Main Street communities across America, as well as international health, sustainable prosperity and environmental programs.

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After 7 days, the Chicago Teachers Strike is over and students are returning to the classroom.

Registered nurses at Menorah Medical Center have approved a labor contract to be represented by National Nurses Organizing Committee and National Nurses United.
… Read more about: MNA Daily NewsScan, Sept. 19, 2012: Robin Hood Tax Hits Congress; CTU Strike Ends  »