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News Briefs
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Loud and Clear
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To the Rescue
Baystate RNs get help from Occupy in contract talks
5 | Florida HCA RNs win first contract 6 | Sutter
RNs strike third time 8 | Mayo Clinic RNs step up
pressure for contract; Michigan RNs help reopen
hospital 9 | RN performs one-woman show
10 | Two Southern California hospital unionize;
protesting Kaiser Hayward pediatrics closure;
Maine RNs settle new contract; VA nurses fight and
win over mandatory overtime, other issues
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From Chicago, NNU nurses��� message for a Robin
Hood tax shot around the world. By RoseAnn DeMoro
Under the theme, ���Coming together to heal the
world,��� NNU nurses at their 2012 Staff Nurse
Assembly strategized about how to pass a Robin
Hood tax that could be used to rebuild their ailing
communities.
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Labor of Love
Nearing age 98, activist, educator, and writer Harry
Kelber is still pushing the labor movement to meet
its full potential. By Carl Ginsburg
Minnesota RN
Kathleen Malecki walks with
her colleagues to a massive rally
in Chicago's Daley Plaza for
a tax on Wall Street.
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