Whittier Hospital RNs Choose CNA/NNOC in Landslide 87% Election Victory

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Whittier Hospital RNs Choose CNA/NNOC in Landslide 87% Election Victory

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- By a landslide 87 percent vote, registered nurses at Whittier Hospital Medical Center in the Los Angeles area Wednesday night elected the nation's fastest growing union, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), to represent them.

The final count was 144 to 21 in the secret ballot election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. CNA/NNOC will represent 300 RNs at the hospital....

..."We are happy about our CNA/NNOC victory," said post-partum care RN Irma San Luis. "It will help bring a strong united nurse voice for patient care at Whittier."

"Our victory unites us with San Gabriel colleagues so together we can improve patient care and nursing standards for all Southern California RNs," said Cecilia Caspe, RN....

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,246294.shtml

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In Solidarity....

Now lets get a fair contract!

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Whittier Hospital nurses vote to join CNA

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has another union representation victory, this one at 171-bed Whittier Hospital Medical Center in the Los Angeles area.

The Oakland-based CNA said late Thursday that registered nurses voted 144 to 21 to join the union, one of the nation's fastest growing labor groups. It will now represent 300 Whittier Hospital RNs in contract negotiations.

Seven years ago, CNA represented 6,000 Southern California RNs in 13 hospitals; with Whittier's results, the tally is now more than 23,000 RNs in 49 hospitals….

http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2007/12/17/daily38.html

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