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News Briefs
SEIU local teams up with hospitals to attack ratios
5 | Baystate RNs win victories, go back to bargaining table 6 | Minnesota Nurses Association
adopts Member Action Team model 7 | Sutter RNs
strike fourth and fifth time 8 | Kansas City RNs win
first contract; RNs at two St. Louis hospitals win
unionizing elections 9 | Michigan RNs key to vote
on protecting collective bargaining; 10 | Two CNA
RNs appointed to California Board of Registered
Nursing; NNU leaders take inspiration from Haiti
relief project; RNs help launch campaign to pass
Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street; NNU-VA nurses
settle their contract, fight mandatory overtime,
and receive training on bargaining rights
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Ratios at Risk
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Still SiCKO
Five years after release of the seminal documentary,
the film���s subjects reunite to discuss how little has
changed. By Donna Smith
Next Steps
JUNE 2012
The hospital industry is finding lackeys in labor to
attack California���s safe staffing ratios. By RoseAnn DeMoro
Registered nurse volunteers with the Medicare for all bus at its
June 26 stop in Modesto, Calif. RNs gave
free health screenings and then hosted
a town hall meeting on Obamacare���s shortcomings and the benefits of Medicare
for all. Photo by Erin FitzGerald.
ON THE COVER:
Are you wondering what the U.S. Supreme Court
decision on the Affordable Care Act means for
patients? Learn what the law does and doesn���t do,
and how improving and expanding Medicare for all
is the only solution that works. By Charles Idelson
W W W. N A T I O N A L N U R S E S U N I T E D . O R G
N AT I O N A L N U R S E
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