hundreds of members of the nation’s largest nurses’ union demonstrated outside the u.s. chamber of commerce and on capitol hill on tuesday.
the union, national nurses united, held the event to promote its “main street contract for the american people,” which aims, in part, to increase tax revenue from corporations to prevent cuts in entitlement programs like medicare and medicaid.
the protesters started in lafayette square and marched to the chamber’s headquarters. two demonstrators in tuxedoes — one labeled “goldman” and the other “sachs” — collected “invoices” of demands like “pension contribution increases” and “mortgage payments” from nurses on the steps of the building….
…many nurses at the rally said they were concerned that staffing reductions in hospitals and doctors’ offices due to budget cuts could be dangerous to patients.
“people are suffering, because there are not enough nurses at the bedside,” said pamela young, 54, who traveled from oviedo, fla., for the event….
