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What do you think of the California Safe Staffing Law, AB-394? Would you want it for your state? DHS site: http://www.dhs.ca.gov/lnc/pubnotice/NTPR/DADMmemoSupCourtDecision.pdf http://www.dhs.ca.gov/lnc/NTP/default.htm Actual regulations: http://c...

In California nurses and other hourly workers are entitled to a meal break and rest breaks with no patient responsibility. I work 12 hours and sometimes barely grab a drink of water or cold coffee. I have worked 14 hours without going to the bathroom...

January 4, 2008 Arizona Patient Protection Act Introduced - HB 2041 Sets Safe Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios, Ability for Nurses to Advocate for Urgent Patient Safety Measures Arizona registered nurse leaders today announced the historic introduct...

300 Nurses from across the country converge in Chicago Tuesday to Defend RNs Right to Unionize, and Advocate for our Patients http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-rns09.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060808nurses,1,47821...

Health care just as good, half as much as in U.S., report says Canada's health system is as good or better than that of the United States and is delivered at half the cost, new research suggests. A review in the inaugural issue of online medical jour...

Pa. nurses to join with national labor group By Harold Brubaker A Pennsylvania nurse's union with 5,100 members, mostly in the Philadelphia area, said it is affiliating with a powerful and deep-pocketed national counterpart. The move puts the finan...

If you agree you can call or write to help a fellow nurse: Blue Cross Rejects Critical Surgery for Orange County ICU Nurse -- Possibly Left Disabled by Denial Please Help-Call Blue Cross TODAY Reference # 0208873369 Call: (818) 234-6063 Yvette Am...

Why won't they have a vote? Why didn't the union insist on it?

As an RN not a CRNA I would not use it unless a competent person were right there to intubate the patient if necessary. Not the ER doc doing the procedure. Our committee prevented having our ER nurses do it by uniting for a policy that for non intuba...

Obviously there are significant progressive elements within SEIU. Many of them are working to oppose Andy Stern and the guys from D.C. in their drive to centralize power. You can read more from SEIU members here: http://www.ReformSEIU.org. http:...

At my hospital my friend called CNA. WE met with each other for many many months before we filed with about 70% of the nurses signing cards. WE work very well with our colleagues who are not RNs. WE helped them get another union so they have protecti...

Hospitals trust you, the registered nurse, with their patients, but not a choice of unions? Just like they trust you to care for the sickest people in town but will not respect you enough to determine how many patients you can safely care for? htt...

The Service Employees International Union is known for "partnering" with major corporations--whether that's Wal-Mart on healthcare reform, nursing home companies on blocking nursing home reform, or their own employers, including HMOs and hospital cha...

Vote on unionization of Catholic Healthcare nurses called off http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/gen/ap/OH_Nurses_Union.html

While every patient must be assigned to a registered nurse our colleagues who are LVN/LPN or non nurses provide invaluable help in caring for our patients. I work in critical care on the night shift. From 7:00 pm until 11:00 pm we have a secretary. F...

SEIU Vote at Mercy Hospitals Cancelled March 11, 2008 The uncontested union elections scheduled to be held on March 12-14 by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for 4200 workers at five hospitals operated by Catholic Healthcare Partners ...

Are we still building hospitals and providing supplies for Iraq? http://www.usabuildingiraq.com/

Ohio RNs are being denied a choice for union representation Nine hospitals operated by Catholic Healthcare Partners in Ohio are delivering their registered nurses to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by holding uncontested union electi...

(please read entire quote posted previously) there are too many inaccurate statements here. i don't want to even try to counter each one. i won't even try to know why the seiu does whet it does. i will not claim i know what happened when i was not t...

I am very sorry. That was rude. I didn't mean it that way but can understand why it seemed so. If you can possibly accept my apology I want you to know I am very sorry. I was asking because your profile states "Nursing Education: Other" I am supporti...

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SEIU Voice This website was created by members of SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) to provide a source of information to the public about our efforts to get our national union, SEIU, back on the right path. http://www.seiuvoice.org/

RNs are threatened with discipline by their union if they blow the whistle about unsafe patient care or criticize the employer. They did get a nice pay increase. CNA Kaiser RNs make even more and retain their right to union representation when they ...

This is from the SEIU web site. I cannot trust a union that partners with CEOs and dismisses the concerns on workers. Especially against RNs right to advocate for our patients instead of for the employer.

I think this union does not understand patient advocacy.